Jim Rothman

Dr. Rothman is the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. His research discoveries have been recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013, the Albert Lasker Award and the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience. Dr. Rothman has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist of General Electric Healthcare and has served on the advisory boards of Amersham PLC, Johnson & Johnson Scientific, and Merck Scientific. Dr. Rothman graduated with a B.A. from Yale College, attended Harvard Medical School and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has previously been a professor at Stanford, Princeton, and Columbia Universities and at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as Vice Chairman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.