Prof Dr Thorsten Cramer MD
Education
1981 – 1989 High School (Gymnasium Schloß Neuhaus) Paderborn
1989 General qualification for university entrance
1989 – 1997 Medical School FU Berlin
Approbation (licence to practice medicine)
10. Januar 2001 Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales Berlin
Clinical Training
12/1997 – 06/1999 Intern, Internal Medicine Department of Gastroenterology (Director: Prof. Dr. E.-O. Riecken),
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
Campus Benjamin Franklin
10/2003 – 08/2014 Clinical Fellow, Internal Medicine
Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology (Director: Prof. Dr. B. Wiedenmann),
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
Campus Virchow-Klinikum
Doctoral Thesis
11/2000 “Hepatocyte Growth Factor and c-Met Expression in Rat and Human Liver Fibrosis”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hermann Herbst
Habilitation
04/2010 „Molecular effectors of the transcription factor HIF-1 during cellular adaptation to hypoxia“
Scientific Career
07/1999 – 12/2000 Postdoctoral Fellow,
Supervisor: Prof. S. Rosewicz,
Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
Campus Virchow-Klinikum
01/2001 – 09/2003: Postdoctoral Fellow,
Supervisor: Prof. Randall S. Johnson Division of Biological Sciences Molecular Biology Section
University of California San Diego
10/2003 – 08/2014: Head of research group
„Hypoxia and malignant progression“, Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
Campus Virchow-Klinikum
12/2008 – 08/2014: Board member of the Molecular Cancer Research Center Charité
05/2010 – 08/2014 Coordinator for „Translational Research“ of the Interdisciplinary Organ Tumor Group „Hepatobiliary Tumors“ at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Charité
since 06/2012 Extended Faculty Member Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (BSIO)
28./29.05.2010 Organisation of the international meeting “Metabolism in Cancer” together with Prof. Dr. Clemens A. Schmitt of the Molecular Cancer Research Center
09/2015 – 08/2019 Assistant Professor for “Molecular Tumor Biology” RWTH Aachen University
since 02/2017 Principal Investigator, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) Maastricht University
since 09/2019 Associate Professor for “Molecular Tumor Biology” RWTH Aachen University
Awards
09/2011 Walter-Krienitz-Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS)
06/2015 Best Poster Award, Cell Symposium „Cancer, Inflammation, and Immunity“, Sitges, Spain