兰迪·谢克曼

1971级   医学先锋  诺贝尔奖获得者

他将小科学变为大发现

兰迪·谢克曼还是孩子的时候就已经常在各种科学峰会上获得奖项了。青少年时期，他在父母的车库里建造了一个实验室。在UCLA，他最先选择医学预科为专业，但是大一时在一次分子生物实验室做研究时，爱上了基础科学。“运用智力，直觉和努力探究自然的深度”的这个可能性勾起了这位年轻的研究员的兴趣。2013年，现任UCB教师的谢克曼因发现人类细胞如何组织运输系统的贡献被授予诺贝尔心理学或药理学奖，成为UCLA第一个获得这方面的诺贝尔奖的校友。而他的发现将对解决神经疾病，糖尿病，免疫失调的治疗起到重要作用。

Randy W. Schekman

Class of 1971

He turned small science into a great discovery.

As a child Randy Schekman regularly won prizes at science fairs. As a teenager he built a lab in his parents’ garage. At UCLA, he first chose pre-med as his major, but in a freshman molecular biology lab doing hands-on research, fell in love with basic science. The young researcher was intrigued by the possibility of “plumbing the depths of nature with intellect and intuition and work.” In 2013, Schekman, now on the faculty of UC Berkeley, became the first UCLA alumnus to win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work in figuring out how the human cell organizes its transport system–which could be key to solving neurological diseases, diabetes and immunological disorders.‍