James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.

ShanghaiTech University is a municipal public science and engineering university in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The university was founded in 2013 by contracts between the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction.