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Stanford, UC Berkeley Professors Awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine

The professors were selected for their work in revealing mechanisms behind how molecules are transported within cells in "packages" called vesicles.

—By Bay City News Service

Two Bay Area professors were named co-winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday morning, along with a Yale University professor.

The three Nobel laureates are Thomas Sudhof, a Stanford University molecular and cellular physiology professor; Randy Schekman, of the University of California at Berkeley's department of molecular and cell biology; and Yale University Professor James E. Rothman.

Sudhof, Schekman and Rothman were selected for their work in revealing mechanisms behind how molecules are transported within cells in "packages" called vesicles.

Sudhof learned of the honor in Spain, where he is lecturing at a conference. The German-born professor has been at the Stanford School of Medicine since 2008.

Schekman was awakened by word of the good news at his El Cerrito home at 1:30 a.m. Monday, UC Berkeley officials said.

Both local professors planned to speak Monday morning at separate news conferences.

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