Prof. Dr. Ingrid Grummt
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Head and Full Professor, Division of Molecular Biology of the Cell II, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Ingrid Grummt received her PhD at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, worked as a Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, led a research group in Würzburg, and is Division Head at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg since 1989. Her research focusses on the molecular mechanisms that regulate transcription at the genetic and epigentic level. She serves on several scientific advisory boards and is a member of EMBO, the Academia Europea and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She received numerous awards, including the Science Prize of the Fritz-Winter-Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize, the 2010 EMBO/FEBS Women in Science Award and the International Prize 2012 by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm).