Personal life

Sudofh was born in 1955 in the town of Gottingen, Germany. His childhood years were spent in his hometown and in Hannover. One of the childhood memories Sudofh holds dear to him is his music lessons, which involved playing the bassoon. He has also claimed that his bassoon teacher, one Herbert Tauscher was the most influential teacher in his life.

After passing out from Hannover Waldorf School in 1975, Thomas went on to pursue higher studies in medicine. He first entered RWTH Aachen University then went on to Harvard University and then to the University of Gottingen. Sudofh had previously married Annette Sudofh. They had four children together but as the marriage did not work out and later, Sudofh married Lu Chen. Lu Chen herself is quite accomplished being a professor of neurosurgery and psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Stanford University. They have three children, together.

Career

While at the Gottingen University, Sudofh worked on the structure and function of chromaffin cells, at the Max Planck Institute. 1982 marked the year when Sudofh received his PhD degree in medical sciences from the Gottingen University.

In 1983, Sudofh moved to the United States. The year between his PhD and moving to the United States, Sudofh did a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the Whittaker’s Lab where he had done his study on chromaffin cells. After coming to the States Sudofh started his postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. He worked on molecular genetics under Micheal Stuart Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein. Sudofh worked on describing the role of Low Density Lipid receptors in the metabolism of cholesterol.

In 1985, Goldstein and Brown were awarded the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for this work. After finishing his postdoctoral training in 1986, Sudofh was chosen as an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Sudofh was always interested in the transmission through synapses which prompted him to open up his own laboratory in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre. There he worked on molecular and cellular neurosciences for a long span of over 20 years.

In 2008, Sudofh started working at the Stanford University where he currently holds the position of Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine. He also is a professor of psychiatry, physiology and neurology. Sudofh being as educated as he is has a long list of awards to his name.

He is the owner of the W. Alden Spencer award, Wilhelmina Feldberg Award, Roger Eckert Award, the 2004 MetLife Award, Bristol-Myers Squibb Award, the 2004 Ulf Von Euler Award, the 2008 Bernhard Katz Award, the Passano Foundation Award and many more, ultimately winning the most prestigious Nobel Prize in 2013. His work has also been published on Google Scholar. Though no exact information has been provided regarding his net worth, it seems that he has amassed substantial wealth!