!!Professor Patrick Cramer is awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2023

__Academia Europaea is pround to announce the award of the prestigious [Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2023|https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/life-science-medicine] to [Professor Patrick Cramer|Member/Cramer_Patrick], member of the [Biochemistry and Molecular Biology|Acad_Main/Sections/Biochemistry_molecular_biology] section of Academia Europaea since 2017.__
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Professor Patrick Cramer, Director, Department of Molecular Biology, [Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences|https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/en] and President-Elect of the Max Planck Society, Germany receives the award in equal shares with Professor Eva Nogales, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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Prof. Ray Dixon, the Chair of the [Biochemistry and Molecular Biology|Acad_Main/Sections/Biochemistry_molecular_biology] section writes:
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''“Professor Patrick Cramer  MAE, from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Gottingen, has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, jointly with Professor Eva Nogales from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Cramer is widely recognized for his ground-breaking research in the field of structural biology, which has revolutionized our understanding of gene transcription by RNA polymerase.  Using a combination of X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy and crosslinking-mass spectrometry methods, Professor Cramer’s high resolution structures, coupled with functional  analysis, have provided unprecedented insights into molecular mechanisms of transcription initiation, pausing and elongation, thus capturing  snapshots of the sequential steps in gene expression in extraordinary detail. These pioneering discoveries hold immense promise for understanding how the human genome is transcribed and regulated in health and disease, paving the way for the development of novel therapeutic strategies”.''
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!About the Shaw Prize

[The Shaw Prize|https://www.shawprize.org/the-shaw-prize/about], which is awarded annually in the domains of life sciences, mathematics, and astronomy, is endowed with one million US dollars in each category.
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Within Academia Europaea, [Noga Alon|Member/Alon_Noga], Professor of Mathematics at the University of Princeton and Baumritter Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, and [Ehud Hrushovski|Member/Hrushovski_Ehud], Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic, Oxford University, received this distinguished honour in Mathematical Sciences in 2022, while [Michael Perryman|Member/Perryman_Michael], currently Adjunct Professor, School of Physics at University College Dublin, was awarded the prize in astronomy also in 2022. 

!Academia Europaea congratulates Prof. Cramer to this distinction!