Fred Russell Kramer PhD

Fred Russell Kramer is Professor of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the Public Health Research Institute of the New Jersey Medical School of Rutgers University. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1964 and received his doctorate from the Rockefeller University in 1969. He was on the faculty of the Department of Genetics and Development at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for 17 years, and was a Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine for 27 years. He is the co-recipient, along with Sanjay Tyagi, of the 2005 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine.