Thomas C. Südhof (1955- )

Awarded the Prize “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".

Thomas C. Südhof is a German-American biochemist who was born on December 22, 1955 in G?ttingen, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. of Neurochemistry in University of G?ttingen in 1982 and currently he is researcher of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA and the Distinguished Professor of Molecule and Cellular Biology at Stanford.