Patrick Cramer
German biochemist (born 1969)
Patrick Cramer (born 3 February 1969) is a German chemist, structural biologist, and molecular systems biologist. In 2020, he was elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences.2
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Born Feb 3, 1969.1
About
He became president of the Max Planck Society in June 2023.
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Companies
- Max Planck SocietyChair Jun 2023 to now25
Early life and education
- Date not recordedStanford University3
Cramer studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and Heidelberg University (Germany) from 1989 until 1995. He completed a part of his studies as ERASMUS scholar at the University of Bristol in the UK. As a research student, he also worked in the lab of Sir Alan Fersht in Cambridge, UK at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology (LMB) site. In 1995 until 1998 he worked as a PhD student in laboratory of Christoph W. Müller at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Grenoble, France. He obtained his PhD in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) from Heidelberg University in 1998.
Stanford University, 1999–2001
From 1999 until 2001 Cramer worked as postdoctoral researcher and fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the laboratory of the later Nobel Prize laureate Roger D. Kornberg at Stanford University, US.
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Career
Occupation: manager, chemist, biochemist, university teacher, scientist.7
- Since 2023Chair, Max Planck Society6
- Date not recordedWorked at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München4
- Date not recordedWorked at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry4 5
LMU Munich, 2001–2013
In 2001, Cramer returned to Germany, where he obtained a tenure-track professorship for biochemistry at the Gene Center of LMU Munich where he was later, in 2004, appointed full professor of biochemistry. Patrick Cramer headed the LMU Gene Center for 10 years, from 2004 until 2013. He also served as Dean of the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy from 2007 to 2009, and as Director of the Department of Biochemistry from 2010 to 2013. Cramer also was a member of the University Research Board from 2007 to 2013 and speaker of the research network grant SFB464 of the German Research Council (DFG).
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 2014–2023
In 2014, Cramer was appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.
Corporate boards
Wacker Chemie, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2023)
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Personal life
Awards
- 2025honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University10 23
- 2023Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art10 21
- 2023Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine10 22
- 2023X-ray badge10
- 2021Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine10 20
- 2020Otto Warburg Medal10 19
- 2019Ernst Schering Prize10 18
- 2011Feldberg Foundation Prize10 17
- 2009EMBO Membership10 15
- 2009Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine10 16
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