Recent videos and podcasts

In conversation with medical journalist and presenter Dr Florence Randrianarisoa, who first visited him at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Patrick Cramer talks about his research, what excites him about it and what special moments he has experienced. On a second visit, Patrick Cramer had arrived in Munich and gives insights into the ideas and goals of his presidency.
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The 54-year-old chemist and structural and molecular biologist took office as president of the Max Planck Society on June 22, 2023. In this video, he outlines his fields of action for his term from 2023 to 2029.
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12^th July 2025
Podcast "The People", 3PROTV, Seoul (Korean language with English audio track)
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4^th June 2025 (Multimedia Centre - European Parliament) more

31^st May 2024
The interview with Patrick Cramer and Suzanna Randall was recorded as part of his book launch ‘Future Worlds. My journey to the science of tomorrow’. The book is published by S. Fischer Verlag. (German language).
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17^th May 2024 (Akademie věd České republiky)
The event was hosted jointly by the President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT), organizers of the Dioscuri Programme in Czechia, as well as the Czech Academy of Sciences and Masaryk University, hosts of the first Dioscuri Centres.
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16^th May 2024 (Mendel Lectures)
Mendel Lecture - Patrick Cramer
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29^th February 2024 (Deutsche Roentgengesellschaft)
Röntgen Academy - Learning experiences around the X-rays. We meet experts and award winners at the birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for the EBENEN interview format.  One guest, one topic and three stages: Experience, Deepen, Explore. From the surface to the depths, from the general to the detailed, from the simple to the complex.
Our first guest is Prof Dr Patrick Cramer, chemist and molecular biologist, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, President of the Max Planck Society and winner of the Röntgen Plaque 2023 for his groundbreaking research into decoding the gene transcription mechanism using X-ray methods.
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13^th February 2024
Festrede des Präsidenten der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Professor Dr. Patrick Cramer, anlässlich der 75. Jahresversammlung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, AXICA, Berlin  (German language)
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5^th February 2024 (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie d. Wissenschaften)
Four years have passed since the German public first heard about a virus that began to spread rapidly. The first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Germany was reported in January 2020. What happened after that is well known: Waves of infection, overcrowded hospitals, social distancing and hygiene rules, lockdowns.... How do we look back on this period today, which - overlaid by further crises - seems to have disappeared from the centre of public attention, but is still ongoing? How do we assess the rapid pace of its spread and the associated maximum deceleration of social life? Chemist Patrick Cramer (Academy Member, President of the Max Planck Society), physicist Viola Priesemann (Young Academy, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation) and political scientist Barbara Prainsack (University of Vienna, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) take a look back with presenter Anja Martini (NDR) at how the pandemic has been dealt with and look ahead to the research questions that arise now and in the future in connection with Covid-19. How should the measures and their communication be evaluated in retrospect? What research has Covid-19 triggered and what research questions will arise in the future?  (German language)
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29^th Januar 2024 (Deutschlandfunk / Kultur) [Podcast]
It all started with the Hobbythek: Fascinated by the experiments on the TV screen, Patrick Cramer started experimenting himself - even if it was with nitric acid at the lunch table. In 2000, he solved one of the greatest mysteries in molecular biology. (German language)
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On 12 December 2023, the Max Planck Society invited around 300 guests from science and politics to its annual reception in the Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin. In his speech, President Patrick Cramer expressed his concern for the open society in Germany and emphasised the importance of education as a guarantor against populist infiltration of democracy. (German language)
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15.12.2023 (BR / Quer)
The word of the year in Germany: "Krisenmodus" (translated: crisis mode). Many people have the impression that there is only one direction in Germany: downhill. But is that true? The Nobel Prizes were only awarded on Sunday and one of them went to physicist Ferenc Krausz, who conducts research at the Max Planck Institute in Garching.  (German language) more

13^th November 2023 (University of Hong Kong)
Professor Patrick Cramer and Professor Eva Nogales, Shaw Laureates in Life Science and Medicine 2023, delivered the Shaw Prize Lecture on 13^th November 2023.
“Molecular and cellular mechanisms of transcription and its regulation” by Patrick Cramer and “Visualising the molecular choreography in early stages of human gene transcription” by Eva Nogales. 
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This year’s Shaw Prize recipients, Professor Patrick Cramer and Professor Eva Nogales, pioneered structural biology approaches to enable visualisation, at the level of the individual atoms, of the protein machines responsible for gene transcription. They revealed the molecular mechanism underlying each step in gene transcription, and the importance of proper gene transcription to promote health and prevent disease.
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“Let us never forget how science can serve humankind, how it can build bridges, and how it can unite us across space and time.”
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On 11 October 2023, Prof. Dr Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society, and Prof. Dr Wolfgang Wick, Chairman of the German Council of Science and Humanities, visited the Bundestag's Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. (German language) more

22 June 2023
Inaugural Speech of the new President of the Max Planck Society, Patrick Cramer, on the occasion of taking office on 22 June 2023 in Göttingen.
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13^th April 2023
On Thursday, April 13, 2023, we welcomed Patrick Cramer, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry since 2014 and President-Elect of the Max Planck Society, for an in-depth conversation as part of our interview series.
MPI for Empirical Aestethics
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12^th April 2023
Salon debates in the Forum Wissen
University of Göttingen
[German language]
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30^th March 2023
Werner Müller-Esterl, Matthias Mann & Patrick Cramer on the presentation of the Otto Warburg Medal, Elsevier DACH
German language
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10^th March 2023
Panel discussion with Jeanne Rubner and Antje Boetius
Bayer Foundation
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19^th February 2023
Podcast Ep. 76 - Gene Transcription and Its Regulation with Patrick Cramer
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
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18^th January 2023
Science Meets Music, Jupiter, Florida
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
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13^th December 2022
Laudatory speech for Stefan Hell | Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science
[German language]
Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens-Ring
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7^th December 2022
Panel discussion with Marcus Willaschek (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main), Bénédicte Savoy (Technical University Berlin, academy member) and Patrick Cramer (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science)
Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
[German language]
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8^th November 2022
Plenary Table at Falling Walls Conference, Berlin
Falling Walls Foundation​​​​​​​
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11^th October 2022
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2021
Fondation Louis-Jeantet
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29^th September 2022
Biotech Talks Bayern
BioMTV
[German language]
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1^st June 2022
Max Birnstiel Lecture at IMP Vienna
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
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13^th February 2022
BR Campus Talk with Jeanne Rubner
BR ARD Alpha
[German language] more

15^th January 2022
SWR2 Wissen von Susanne Rostosky
SWR2 Wissen
[German language] more

7^th January 2022
Courtesy of Prof. Dr. Gunnar Heine, Bad Homburg
CramerLab
[German language]
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11^th November 2021
Max Planck Forum
MaxPlanckSociety
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