PNAS Announcement

["Kendall, George" <GKendall@nas.edu>]

For Release: Immediate
Contact: PNAS News Office, Washington, DC
Tel: 202-334-1310; e-mail: <pnasnews@nas.edu>

WASHINGTON, DC-The Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences (PNAS), the official journal of the National Academy of 
Sciences (NAS), announces the appointment by the NAS Council of 
Randy Schekman, Ph.D., as the journal's new Editor-in-Chief.

Schekman is professor of cell and developmental biology in the 
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of 
California, Berkeley, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes 
Medical Institute. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 
1992, Schekman served on the Editorial Board of PNAS in 2001-2005 
and is currently the chair of the Academy's Biological Sciences 
division.

Schekman's research focuses on the processes of membrane 
assembly, vesicular transport, and membrane fusion among 
organelles of the secretory pathway. He received his Ph.D. in 
biochemistry at Stanford University and performed postdoctoral 
research at the University of California, San Diego. Among 
Schekman's honors are the Eli Lilly Award in microbiology, the 
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in basic biomedical science, the 
Gairdner International Award, and the Albert Lasker Award for 
Basic Medical Research. He is scientific director of the Jane 
Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research and past 
president of the American Society for Cell Biology.

"As the flagship publication of the Academy, PNAS has a 
responsibility to represent a broad range of scientific 
disciplines and to do so with the highest standards of 
peer-reviewed scholarship," says Schekman. "In the years of my 
association as a member, I have come to value the Academy and its 
role in science education and policy here and around the world. I 
welcome the opportunity to guide PNAS's contact to the next 
generation of scientists."

Schekman succeeds former Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 
who died of Burkitt's lymphoma in March. Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., 
took on additional leadership duties for PNAS during Cozzarelli's 
illness and has served as Senior Editor since January 2005.

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