Thomas C. Südhof

Dr. Südhof is also Professor of Molecular Genetics and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Göttingen in Germany and performed his doctoral thesis work in the laboratory of Victor Whittaker at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Südhof is a recipient of the 2004 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for distinguished achievement in neuroscience research and the 2004 MetLife Award for research in Alzheimers disease. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.