Ingrid Grummt's Biography

Ingrid Grummt, Head, German Cancer Research Center

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 focuses on the molecular mechanisms that regulate transcription. She serves on several scientific advisory boards and is a member of EMBO, the Academia Europea and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She has received numerous awards, including the Science Prize of the Fritz-Winter-Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize and the 2010 EMBO/FE BS Women in Science Award