0:00 | Intro
0:22 | Welcome and Laudatory Speech by László Lénárd, President of the Section of Biological Sciences
5:16 | Thomas C. Südhof: The molecular architecture of synapses in health and disease
Thomas C. Sudhof, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and neurobiologist, born in Germany in 1955, is currently the Avram Goldstein Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Stanford University. His work has led to fundamental discoveries in understanding the molecular mechanism of neurotransmitter vesicle release. His results have contributed greatly to our understanding of the molecular processes that generate the fusion of synaptic vesicles with the plasma membrane. In 2013, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, shared with James Rothman and Randy Schekman of the US.
He maintains research relationship with several Hungarian brain researchers and supervised three Hungarian researchers. In 2020 he was elected honorary doctor of the University of Miskolc. In 2022, he was elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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