University Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California - Berkeley. Member: National Academy of Sciences Council and Governing Board; National Academy of Medicine; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Foreign Associate, The Royal Society, London. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Current research focused on the mechanisms of protein and RNA secretion and autophagy in human cells. 2011, appointed Editor-in-Chief, open access life sciences journal, eLife, which is financially supported by the Wellcome Trust of the United Kingdom, The Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. eLife is an unprecedented collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to change the way important results are selected, presented and shared. eLife publishes outstanding discoveries across the life sciences and biomedicine, from basic and theoretical to translational and clinical work. Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology (2013), shared with Thomas Sudhof of Stanford and James Rothman of Yale, for their discoveries of the mechanism regulating vesicle traffic, a major cellular transport system.