Peter Heinrich Krammer (born in 1946) is a

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immunologist and one of the directors of The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), as well as the head of the Division Immunogenetics at the

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(DKFZ) in

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. Peter H. Krammer is well known for his research and findings in

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. He and his lab members discovered the

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receptor (also known as Fas and APO-1) and many other molecules involved in signaling through the CD95 receptor.

Life

Krammer studied

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at the

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(Germany), in

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(USA) and in

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(Switzerland) and graduated in 1971. He was a member of the

Basel Institute for Immunology The Basel Institute for Immunology (BII) was founded in 1969 as a basic research institute in immunology located at 487 Grenzacherstrasse, Basel, Switzerland on the Rhine River down the street from the main Hoffmann-La Roche campus near the Swiss-G ...

in Switzerland between 1973 and 1975, and a member of Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany in 1976. In 1976, he became an associate at the Institute for Immunology and Genetics at the

. Between 1981 and 1988, he was the acting head and since 1989, he is the head of the Division of Immunogenetics at the

. In 2000, he was one of the founders of Apogenix, a spin-out from the German Cancer Research Center which is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics by targeting the modulation of

. Since 2010, he is also one of the directors of The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT). Peter H. Krammer has more than 400 scientific publications.

Selection of Awards

*1991 Kind Phillip Award for Leukemia Research *1995

Robert Koch Prize The Robert Koch Medal and Award are two prizes awarded annually by the German for excellence in the biomedical sciences. These awards grew out of early attempts by German physician Robert Koch to generate funding to support his research into the ...

*1996 The German Cancer Prize *1996 Behring-Kitasato Prize from the Hoechst Japan *1996 Heinz-Ansmann Prize *1996

Meyenburg Prize The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The pri ...

*1997

Cancer Research Award Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

Wilhelm Warner Foundation *1998

Avery Landsteiner Prize Avery may refer to: Business * Avery Company, a former tractor manufacturer and later produced trucks and automobiles * Avery Weigh-Tronix, a British manufacturer of industrial weighing systems * Avery Berkel, a British manufacturer of retail ...

*2000

Ernst Jung Prize The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences. The Ernst Jung Foundation, funded by Hamburg merchant Ernst Jung in 1967, has awarded the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, now €300,000, since 1976, and the lif ...

for Medicine *2000 Ludwik Hirszfeld Medal of the Polish Society for Exp. and Clin. Immunology *2001 Genius Biotech Award for APOGENIX *2003 Lautenschläger Research Prize *2004 1st Int. Cell Death Society Prize *2005 Career Award of the European Cell Death Organization *2011

German Cancer Aid Prize German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ger ...

*2012 Johann-Georg-Zimmermann Medal

Citations

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krammer, Peter H. German immunologists University of Freiburg alumni Academic staff of Heidelberg University Living people 1946 births Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany