Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Cell Traffic Research

Two Americans, German win award

The discovery of a complex transport systemwithin the human body that makes cells deliver life-saving proteins and molecules at the right place and in the right time—vital for our survival, has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. 

Americans James Rothman (Yale), and Randy Schekman ( University of California) and German-born Thomas Sudhof ( Stanford University) have been awarded the world's top medicine prize for discovering the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered.