Randy Schekman

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
Nobel co-recipients: James E. Rothman, Thomas C. Südhof

Award: "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells."

Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy

Randy Schekman planned to donate his Nobel Prize money of $400,000, to create an endowment for the ‘Esther and Wendy Schekman Chair in Basic Cancer Biology at UC Berkeley’. Esther and Wendy were his mother and sister who had passed away due to cancer.