Peter Gruss was born on 28 June 1949 and is a German developmental biologist, president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and the former president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
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Peter Gruss has been able to produce insulin using stem cells.
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Peter Gruss grew up in the town of Alsfeld in the German state of Hesse.
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Peter Gruss then spent a year as an assistant at the German Cancer Research Center.
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From 1982 to 1986, Peter Gruss was a professor at the University of Heidelberg's Institute of Microbiology.
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Peter Gruss was on the board of directors of the university's molecular biology institute, the ZMBH, from 1983.
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In 1986, Peter Gruss was appointed a scientific member and director of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen.
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Peter Gruss is a member of the board at Deutsche Venture Capital, and chairman of DeveloGen.
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Peter Gruss was particularly interested in the genetic and cellular-biological building blocks that switch genetic programmes on and off in tumour viruses and in the course of embryonic development.
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Peter Gruss went on to say that Germany was not internationally competitive when it came to pay, but that the Max Planck Society was largely able to offset this disadvantage due to the support it enjoyed from the Max Planck Foundation and thanks to its world-renowned planning security.
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Peter Gruss championed the cause of transferring his findings into practical application: he co-funded the biopharmaceutical company DeveloGen AG in Gottingen in 1997, together with fellow developmental biologists Herbert Jaeckle, Wolfgang Driever and the entrepreneur Herbert Stadler.
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Peter Gruss concentrated on developing new treatments for metabolic and endocrinological diseases with a special focus on diabetes.
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Peter Gruss received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009.
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Peter Gruss is a member of various national and international research committees, among others:.