Patrick Cramer

Patrick Cramer ( born February 3, 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a German chemist and structural biologist.

Life

Patrick Cramer graduated from 1989 to 1991 basic studies in chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and from 1992, the students of chemistry at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Where he graduated in 1995 with a diploma. Between October 1991 and March 1993, he was on the Erasmus program at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom from July 1994 to March 1995 he was a research project under Alan Fersht at the University of Cambridge, UK. Cramer began in 1995 as a doctoral student at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble, France, where he completed his studies in 1998 as a Doctor of Science.

Between 1999 and 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, in the later Nobel Prize winner Roger D. Kornberg. At the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich Cramer worked from 2001 as a tenure -track professor of biochemistry and since 2004 as Professor of Biochemistry, and as head of the Gene Center operates. Since 2006 he has also been a member of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich ( NIM). 1 January 2014, Cramer was appointed as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where he became head of the Department of Molecular Biology.

Patrick Cramer is married and has two children.

Work

Cramer succeeded in deciphering the three-dimensional structure of RNA polymerase II, one of the largest enzymes in the cell nucleus, which plays an important role in transcription. In 2012 he was awarded the Cross of Merit with Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Publications

  • Hacker, Jörg / Rendtorff, defiance / Cramer, Patrich / Hallek, Michael / Hilpert, Konrad / Kupatt, Christian / Lohse, Martin / Müller, Albrecht / Schroth, Ulrich / Voigt, Friedemann / Zichy, Michael: Biomedical interventions in humans. A stage model for the ethical evaluation of gene and cell therapy., 2009.
  • C.D. Kuhn, S.R. Geiger, S. Baumli, M. Gart, J. Gerber, S. Jennebach, T. Mielke, H. Tschochner, R. Beckmann, and P. Cramer. Functional architecture of RNA polymerase I. 2007.
  • A. Jasiak, K.-J. Armache, B. Martens, R.-P. Jansen, & P. Cramer. Structural biology of RNA polymerase III: C17/25 X -ray structure and 11 subunit enzyme - model. , 2006.

Awards and Memberships (Selection)

  • 2000 EMBO Young Investigator
  • 2002 GlaxoSmithKline Science Award
  • 2004 10th Eppendorf Award for Young European Researchers
  • 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • 2007 Philip Morris Research Award
  • 2009 Member of the Leopoldina
  • 2009 Hansen Family Award
  • 2011 Feldberg Foundation Prize
  • 2012 Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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