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History & Milestones
1999
Foundation of IMBA as a joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Boehringer Ingelheim.
2000
- Commitment of Federal Government for funding of IMBA's basic operational budget (7.2 million Euro per year).
- Agreement with the City of Vienna for funding the new IMBA research building.
2002
- The geneticist Josef Penninger starts his work as Scientific Director of IMBA.
- Ground-breaking Ceremony
2003
- With the recruitment of the first IMBA Group Leader (Barry Dickson) IMBA officially starts its operative work.
- Start of the construction work on the new IMBA research building.
2004
- Michael Krebs, economist and longtime executive consultant, accepts the position as Administrative Director.
- Shared-Services agreement with the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP).
- IMBA Building
2005
- The biochemist and molecular biologist Jürgen Knoblich starts his work as Deputy Scientific Director of IMBA.
- Barry Dickson receives the Wittgenstein Award by the Austrian Government, the most generously supported research program in Austria.
2006
- Opening Ceremony of the IMBA/GMI research building, officially called "Life Sciences Center Vienna".
- Opening of the Vienna Open Lab. It is the first biomolecular hands-on laboratory in Austria and a joint initiative of IMBA and the incorporated society dialog<>gentechnik.
- Eric Kandel
- FEI TF30 Polara
2007
- Josef Penninger receives the Descartes Prize for Research by the European Commission.
- Foundation of the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center (VDRC) which is a joint initiative of IMBA and its partner institute IMP. Its transgenic RNAi library maintains about 22,000 Drosophila knock-out stocks and makes them available to researchers worldwide.
- The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) elects Josef Penninger as full member.
- The IMBA Fundraising Committee is established to support the further development of IMBA's scientific goals: W. Schüssel (chair), H. Androsch, C. Djerassi, M. Eiselsberg, H.S.H. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein.
- The Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine by the Jung-Stiftung for Science and Research goes to Josef Penninger.
- Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel takes on the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
- Implementing of Austria's only cryo-transmission electron microscope, the "FEI TF30 Polara".
- Wittgenstein Award Ceremony
2009
- Jürgen Knoblich receives the Wittgenstein Award by the Austrian Government.
