IIT Gandhinagar hosted two Nobel Laureates, Professor Randy W. Schekman and Professor Harold E. Varmus on the 11th of January. Professor Harold Varmus, is Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine,1989. Professor Varmus is currently a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Professor Randy Schekman, is Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2013. Professor Schekman is a faculty member at the University of California in Berkeley.