He fostered relationships with organizations such as The Scripps Research Institute, the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, the Max Planck Society and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.
Apart from a stay at the Max Planck Institute in Munich in the 1970s he has remained in Cambridge throughout his career, becoming a full professor in 1997, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 2002.
The Max Planck Society (MPG) started in 2000 an initiative to attract more international students to Germany to pursue their PhD studies.
Society of Jesus | Royal Society | National Geographic Society | American Cancer Society | Royal Television Society | Max Roach | American Physical Society | American Chemical Society | Max Martin | Mad Max | International Society for Krishna Consciousness | American Society of Civil Engineers | Royal Society of Canada | Royal Geographical Society | Max Ernst | American Philosophical Society | Theosophical Society | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Society of Antiquaries of London | Society of the Cincinnati | Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Justice Society of America | American Mathematical Society | Royal Aeronautical Society | National Honor Society | Max Bygraves | Black Label Society | Max Weber | Max Bruch | Students for a Democratic Society |
In 1992, she received the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis (research award of the Max Planck Society; together with Hans Kamp).
He has initiated a large number of successful research collaborations with prestigious institutions including the Max-Planck Institutes, Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
After studying law at the University of Munich, and later in the United States at Columbia, Stanford and Yale universities, Dohnányi started his career with the Max Planck Institute for International Private Law.
The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute) in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society.
In the same year he became a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and began in 2009 the work as founding director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in collaboration with the Max Planck Society in Frankfurt.
the University of Cambridge he was appointed in 1994 as a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.
The Institute together with the Max Planck Society decided to move the institute closer to the University of Göttingen.
He was therefore confronted with the choice of either selling Schloss Ringberg to the Confederation of German Trade Unions or leaving it as gift to the Max Planck Society.