Awards & Winners

Thomas C. Südhof

Date of Birth 22-December-1955
Place of Birth Göttingen
(Germany, Lower Saxony)
Nationality
Also know as Thomas C. Sudhof
Profession Professor
Thomas Christian Südhof is a German-American biochemist well 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. He is the co-awardee of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on vesicle trafficking.

Awards by Thomas C. Südhof

Check all the awards nominated and won by Thomas C. Südhof.

2013


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For discoveries concerning the molecular machinery and regulatory mechanism that underlie the rapid release of neurotransmitters.)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells)

2010


Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
(for their work to reveal the precise molecular basis of the transfer of signals between nerve cells in the brain.)

1997


NAS Award in Molecular Biology
(For their performance of elegant experiments to resolve the molecular components responsible for controlling neurotransmitter vesicle release and chemical communication within the nervous system.)