Peter Krammer

Prof. Peter Krammer, M.D., is Head of the Division of Immunogenetics in the Tumor Immunology Program at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied medicine at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in St. Louis, MO, USA, and in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prof. Krammer is one of the world’s most renowned apoptosis researchers and has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Robert Koch Prize, the German Cancer Award, the Kitasato-Behring Prize, and the Avery-Landsteiner Prize, the Ernst Jung Prize, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.