
Patrick Cramer
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
Director,Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
President-elect,Max Planck Society
Election motivation
For pioneering in the structural analysis of eukaryotic RNA polymerases, and for contributions to the integrated development of experimental and computational methods for studying transcription and its regulation genome-wide, arriving at the fundamental mechanisms of enhancer function, differentiation, and RNA metabolism, including transcription-coupled RNA processing.
Field of research
Molecular Biology
Born
3 February 1969
Main Honors
Member, Polish Academy of Sciences (2009)
Member ,European Academy of Sciences( 2017)
Foreign member ,US National Academy of Sciences(2020)
Awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine(2023)
Elected member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities(2022)
Foreign member,Royal Society(2024)
President-elect, Max Planck Society (2023 to 2029)
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences