Thomas C. Südhof
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Thomas C. Südhof in Baeza after knowing that he had won the Nobel Prize
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| Born | Thomas Christian Südhof December 22, 1955 Göttingen, Germany |
| Nationality | German and American |
| Fields | Biology |
| Institutions | Stanford University,UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| Alma mater | RWTH Aachen University, University of Göttingen, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor P. Whittaker |
| Known for | Presynaptic Neuron, Synaptic Transmission |
| Notable awards |
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2013) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013) |
| Spouse | Lu Chen |
Thomas Christian Südhof (born December 22, 1955) is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and by courtesy in Neurology, and in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman are the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates for their work on vesicle trafficking.
A German native, Südhof was born in Göttingen in 1955. He spent his childhood in Göttingen and Hannover. He studied music in his youth, specifically the bassoon, and has credited his bassoon instructor, Herbert Tauscher, as his "most influential teacher". and was a graduate from the Hannover Waldorf School in 1975. Südhof studied medicine at the RWTH Aachen University, Harvard University, and then the University of Göttingen. In Göttingen Südhof worked on his doctoral thesis, in which he described the structure and function of chromaffin cells, at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in the lab of Victor P. Whittaker. In 1982, he received his PhD in medical science (Dr.med.) from the University of Göttingen. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship in Whittaker’s lab, Südhof moved to the United States in 1983, where he began postdoctoral training in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center (now the UT Southwestern Medical Center) in Dallas, Texas, under the supervision of Michael Stuart Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein.
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