Two Americans, German win Nobel medicine prize
Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen celebrate as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. APTwo Americans and a German won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize on Monday for their work on how hormones and enzymes are transported within and outside cells, giving insight into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer\’s.
The Americans – James Rothman and Randy Schekman – and Germany\’s Thomas Sudhof were jointly recognized for their research into how the cell organizes its transport system.
The winners of the prize were announced Monday in Stockholm.
Medicine is the first of the prestigious Nobel prizes awarded each year.
Rothman is the chairman of the department of cell biology at Yale.
Schekman is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Sudhof is also an investigator at Howard Hughes and he is a professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford.
Prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.
Source: Agencies
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