Josef Penninger

Biography

"Education 1970-1974 Primary School, Gurten, Austria 1974-1982 Humanistic Gymnasium in Ried i. I., Boarding School, Austria 1982-1988 University of Innsbruck, Medical School, Austria 1985-1990 University of Innsbruck, History of Arts and Spanish 1986-1990 Doctoral Thesis in Immunology: ""Phenotypical and functional analysis of intra-thymic nurse (TNC)-lymphocyes."" Institute for General and Experimental Pathology (Prof. Dr. G. Wick), University of Innsbruck, Medical School. 1987-1989 Teaching Assistant, University of Innsbruck 1990 Graduation from Medical School, University of Innsbruck, Austria. 2008 Leadership course, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Boston, USA Postgraduate training and employment history 1990-1994 Postdoctoral fellow. The Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital. 1994-2002 Principal Investigator, Amgen Institute, 620 University Avenue, Toronto 1994-2003 Associate Scientist, The Ontario Cancer Institute, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto 1994-1999 Assistant Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada. since 1998 Associate Professor (Dozent), Department of Experimental and General Pathology, University of Innsbruck, Austria. since 1998 Full Member; School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto. 1999-2002 Associate Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada. 2002-2004 Full Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada. Since 2002 Scientific and Founding Director, IMBA, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Austria Since 2004 Adjunct Full Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada since 2004 Professor of Genetics, University of Vienna, Austria since 2004 Honorary Professor of Peking Union Medical College/Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China since 2010 Affiliate Scientist, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto Since 2011 Guest Professor of the Medical University Vienna, Austria Since 2011 Vice-President of ERI-ICP (European Research Institute on Intracellular Pathology), Paris. Awards 1987 Special fellowship from the Austrian Ministry for Arts and Science. 1988 Scholarship from the European Federation of Immunological Societies. 1990 ""Highest talented"" Award from the Rotary Club Innsbruck. 1991 ""Anton von Eiselsberg"" price for best medical related scientific work in Austria (awarded for data from my thesis). "

Research Interest

MODELING HUMAN DISEASE