Peter Gruss#
| Membership Number: | 450 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpg.de/190674/Biography-Peter-Gruss |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002-2014 President of the Max Planck Society
- 1997-1998 Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
- Since 1990 Honorary Professor, University of Göttingen
- Since 1986 Director (Department of Molecular Cell Biology), Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
- 1983-1986 Member of the Directorate of the Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg (ZMBH)
- 1982-1986 Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Heidelberg
- 1978-1982 Laboratory of Molecular Virology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- 1981-1982 Visiting Scientist, NIH
- 1980-1981 Expert Consultant, NIH
- 1978-1980 Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH
- 1977-1978 Postdoctoral Assistant at the Institute of Virus Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental biology
- Development of mammals
- Development of the nervous system
- Gene regulation processes
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany - Cross of Merit, First class
- 2007 National Award for International Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
- 2004 State Prize of Lower Saxony
- 2003 Virchow-Lecture and Award, Würzburg
- 2003 George Khoury Lecture, Bethesda
- 2003 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 Berthold Medal and Lecture of the German Society of Endocrinology, Göttingen
- 1999 German Future Prize 1999, The German President’s Prize for Technology and Innovation
- 1999 Stifterverband Science Prize (by the Donors’ association for the Promotion of Humanities and Science)
- 1996 Election to Full Member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 1995 The Louis-Jeantet-Prize for Medicine, Geneve
- 1995 Carus Medal of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Halle
- 1995 Carus Award of the City of Schweinfurt for Members of the Leopoldina
- 1994 Jenkinson Memorial Lecture, Oxford
- 1994 Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1992 Medal of the Collége de France, Paris
- 1992 Jean Brachet Memorial Lecture, Award of the International Society of Differentiation
- 1992 Butenandt-Lecture of the Society of Biological Chemistry
- 1992 NIH-Scholar-in-Residence Award
- 1992 Feldberg Lecture Award
- 1983 Robert Koch Career Development Award of Clausthal-Zellerfeld
- 1983 Lectureship stipend granted by the Fonds der Chemie
- 1981 Heisenberg stipend awarded
- 1978 Postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the German Research Foundation
