Guido Kroemer

Guido Kroemer (born June 11, 1961 in Leer (Ostfriesland) , Germany ) is an Austrian - Spanish molecular biologist and immunologist at the University of Paris Descartes . He is best known for his work on apoptosis .

Life

Kroemer obtained an MD / Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck in 1985. as a combined degree. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the University of Innsbruck, where he completed his habilitation in pathophysiology in 1990 , and at the Collège de France in Nogent-sur-Marne , before he went to Spain in 1990 as a research group leader at various institutions of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). In 1992 he received another Ph.D. from the Autonomous University of Madrid , this time in molecular biology . In 1993, Kroemer moved to INSERM in Villejuif in France.

Kroemer has been Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Paris Descartes since 2010 and Director of the European Research Institute for Integrated Cellular Pathology there . He is also director of the Apoptosis, Cancer and Immunity research unit at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) and director of the metabolomics and cell biology units at the Gustave Roussy Institute . In addition, he works as a doctor at the Hôpital Européen George Pompidou in Paris and is a professor at the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden).

Kroemer has Austrian and Spanish citizenship. In addition to German, he speaks fluent French, Italian, English and Spanish. He is married to the oncologist Laurence Zitvogel .

Act

Guido Kroemer has made important contributions to cell biology and cancer research . He is best known for his discovery that permeabilization of the mitochondrial membrane is a crucial step in programmed cell death . Kroemer researched the fine control of programmed cell death by the mitochondria, metabolic pathways of inhibited cell death in cancer (as far as they are related to the mitochondria) and the immunogenicity of cell death in cancer cells. His work is of fundamental importance for understanding, recognizing and therapeutically influencing cell death.

Kroemer is one of the world's most cited and influential authors in the field of programmed cell death and in the field of mitochondrial research. It has an h-index of 208 (as of May 2018).

Awards (selection)

2000 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
2006 Descartes Prize as head of the APOPTOSIS project
2007 member of the Leopoldina
2007 Carus Prize of the Leopoldina
2007 member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2007 member of the Academia Europaea
2008 member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2008 Prix Mergier-Bourdeix of the Académie des Sciences
2010 President of the European Cell Death Organization
2010 member of the European Academy of Sciences
2012 Léopold Griffuel Prize
2017 Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research (together with Adrian Bird and Laurence Zitvogel )
2018 InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize (together with Laurence Zitvogel )

Web links

Kroemer Lab and Biography at kroemerlab.com
Guido Kroemer at Elsevier- Verlag
Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 196 kB, as of 2010) at Academia Europaea (ae-info.org)

Individual evidence

↑ Guido Kroemer and Laurence Zitvogel, l'union de l'immunologie et de la cancérologie. In: lemonde.fr. January 6, 2014, accessed December 15, 2016 (French).
↑ Guido Kroemer - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
↑ The EMBO PocketDerectory 2016 (PDF, 1.1 MB) at the European Molecular Biology Organization (embo.org); accessed on December 15, 2016.
↑ Three Excellent European Research Projects share € 1m Descartes Prize for Research. European Commission press release (europa.eu); accessed on December 15, 2016.
↑ Member entry by Guido Kroemer (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 11, 2017.
^ Carus Medal. In: leopoldina.org. December 15, 2016, accessed December 15, 2016 .
^ OeAW members detail. In: oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .
↑ Ilire Hasani, Robert Hoffmann: Academy of Europe: Kroemer Guido. In: ae-info.org. August 27, 2010, accessed December 15, 2016 .
↑ THE TREE NEWSLETTER June 2007 issue 23 (PDF, 2.4 MB) from Academia Europaea (ae-info.org); accessed on December 15, 2016.
↑ CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS March 2008 ( Memento from December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 3.0 MB) at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (euro-acad.eu).
^ European Academy of Sciences - New Members. In: eurasc.org. Accessed December 15, 2016 .
↑ Lauréats du Prix Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel. (PDF; 68kB) In: fondation-arc.org. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (French).
^ Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research 2017 goes to Adrian Bird, Guido Kroemer and Laurence Zitvogel. In: media.uzh.ch. December 8, 2016, accessed December 15, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kroemer, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Spanish molecular biologist and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leer (East Frisia)

[1] Guido Kroemer and Laurence Zitvogel, l'union de l'immunologie et de la cancérologie. In: lemonde.fr. January 6, 2014, accessed December 15, 2016 (French).

[2] Guido Kroemer - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .

[3] The EMBO PocketDerectory 2016 (PDF, 1.1 MB) at the European Molecular Biology Organization (embo.org); accessed on December 15, 2016.

[4] Three Excellent European Research Projects share € 1m Descartes Prize for Research. European Commission press release (europa.eu); accessed on December 15, 2016.

[5] Member entry by Guido Kroemer (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 11, 2017.

[6] Carus Medal. In: leopoldina.org. December 15, 2016, accessed December 15, 2016 .

[7] OeAW members detail. In: oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .

[8] Ilire Hasani, Robert Hoffmann: Academy of Europe: Kroemer Guido. In: ae-info.org. August 27, 2010, accessed December 15, 2016 .

[9] THE TREE NEWSLETTER June 2007 issue 23 (PDF, 2.4 MB) from Academia Europaea (ae-info.org); accessed on December 15, 2016.

[10] CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS March 2008 ( Memento from December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 3.0 MB) at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (euro-acad.eu).

[11] European Academy of Sciences - New Members. In: eurasc.org. Accessed December 15, 2016 .

[12] Lauréats du Prix Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel. (PDF; 68kB) In: fondation-arc.org. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (French).

[13] Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research 2017 goes to Adrian Bird, Guido Kroemer and Laurence Zitvogel. In: media.uzh.ch. December 8, 2016, accessed December 15, 2016 .