Patrick Cramer#
| Membership Number: | 4512 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://mpibpc.mpg.de/cramer |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2014 - Director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
- Since 2015 - Guest Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2010 - 2013 - Director, Department of Biochemistry, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2004 - 2013 - Director, Gene Center Munich, Germany
- 2004 - 2014 - Professor of Biochemistry, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2001 - 2003 - Tenure-track Professor of Biochemistry, LMU Munich, Germany
- 1999 - 2001 - Postdoctoral fellow with R. D. Kornberg, Stanford University, USA
- 1995 - 1998 - Predoctoral fellow with C. W. Müller, EMBL Grenoble, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Gene transcription
- RNA polymerases
- Genome regulation
- Structural biology
- Functional genomics
- Computational biology
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Honorary Professor, University of Goettingen
- 2016 Centenary Award of the British Biochemical Society
- 2016 Advanced Grant 'TRANSREGULON' of the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2015 Arthur-Burkhardt-Prize
- 2012 Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz)
- 2012 Paula und Richard von Hertwig Prize
- 2011 Feldberg Foundation Prize
- 2011 Member of the Max Planck Society
- 2010 Advanced Grant 'TRANSIT' of the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2010 Medal of Honor of the Robert Koch Institute
- 2009 Familie-Hansen-Prize of the Bayer Science & Education Foundation
- 2009 Ernst-Jung-Prize for Medicine
- 2009 Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Society (EMBO)
- 2009 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2008 Bijvoet Medal of the University of Utrecht
- 2007 Philip Morris Research Award
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2004 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators
- 2002 Glaxo-Smith-Kline Science Award for Basic Medical Research
- 2000 EMBO Young Investigator Award
