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Professor Peter Gruss
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On June 14, 2002, Peter Gruss assumed the office of President of the Max Planck Society. On November 23, 2001, the Senate of the Max Planck Society elected him for the 2002-2008 term of office.
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Gruss was born in 1949 in Alsfeld in Germany. In 1968, he began his studies in biology at the Technical University in Darmstadt. After graduating, he went to the Institute for Virus Research at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg where he wrote his doctoral thesis. In 1977, he earned his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Heidelberg. The following year he went to the Laboratory of Molecular Virology of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, (USA). In 1982, he was appointed to Professor in the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Heidelberg. One year later, he was designated to the Board of Directors of the Center for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg. In 1986, he was named to Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and to Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. Since 1990, Peter Gruss has held the status of honorary professor at the University of Göttingen.
Selection of Scientific Awards/Honors/Memberships
Lower Saxony State Prize
Feldberg Prize
Leibniz Prize
Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
"Deutscher Zukunftspreis" (German Prize for the Technology and Innovation awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
Research Emphasis
Control mechanisms in the development of vertebrates
Hox genes
Pax genes
Brain development
Seletion of Publications
Kessel, M., P. Gruss
Homeotic transformations of murine vertebrae and concommitant alteration of Hox codes induced by retinoic acid
Cell 67 (1): 89-104, 1991.
Schöler, H. R., T. Ciesiolka, P. Gruss
A nexus between Oct-4 and E1A: implications for gene regulation in embryonic stem cells
Cell 66 (2): 291 – 304, 1991.
Walther, C., P. Gruss
Pax-6, a murine paired box gene, is expressed in the developing CNS
Development 113 (4): 1435 – 1449, 1991.
Sosa-Pineda, B., K. Chowdhury, M. Torres, G. Oliver, P. Gruss
The Pax4 gene is essential for differentiation of insulin-producing b cells in the mammalian pancreas
Nature 386 (6623): 399 – 402, 1997.
St-Onge, L., B. Sosa-Pineda, K. Chowdhury, A. Mansouri, P. Gruss
Pax6 is required for differentiation of glucagon-producing a-cells in mouse pancreas
Nature 387 (6631): 406 – 409, 1997.
Cecconi, F., G. Alvarez-Bolado, B. I. Meyer, K. A. Roth, P. Gruss
Apaf1 (CED-4 homolog) regulates programmed cell death in mammalian development
Cell 94 (6): 727 – 737, 1998.
Marquardt, T., R. Ashery-Padan, N. Andrejewski, R. Scardigli, F. Guillemot, P. Gruss
Pax6 is required for the Multi-Potent State of Retinal Progenitor Cells
Cell 105 (1): 43 – 55, 2001.
Gruss, P.
Open access to science and culture
Science 303 (5656): 311 – 312, 2004.
Gruss, P.
Human ES cells in Europe
Science 301, 1017, 2003.
Gruss, P.
Biotechnologie als Zukunftsfaktor
In: Made in Germany ’21 – Innovationen für eine gerechte Zukunft. Hrsg.: F.-W. Steinmeier, M. Machnig. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg. 199 – 210. 2004.
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