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randy wayne schekman -lrb- born december 30 , 1948 -rrb- is a nobel prize-winning american cell biologist at the university of california , berkeley , and former editor-in-chief of `` proceedings of the national academy of sciences '' .
in 2011 , he was announced as the editor of `` elife '' , a new high-profile open-access journal published by the howard hughes medical institute , the max planck society and the wellcome trust launching in 2012 .
he was elected to the national academy of sciences in 1992 .
schekman shared the 2013 nobel prize for physiology or medicine with james rothman and thomas c. südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking .
