Innsbruck Medical University

Innsbruck Medical University
Established	2004
Type	public
Endowment	147 Mio. Euro
President	Herbert Lochs
Students	ca. 3,800
Location	Innsbruck, Austria
Website	www.i-med.ac.at

The Innsbruck Medical University (German: Medizinische Universität Innsbruck) is a university in Innsbruck, Austria. It used to be one of the four historical faculties of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, but it became an independent (by itself) university in 2004.

History

The medical tradition dates back long before the university began. The first hospital began in the silver-mining city of Schwaz nearby in 1307. Because people grew as years went by, a medical faculty was added to the university, begun in 1669 by Emperor Leopold I, making it the first of its kind in the Alpine region.

Nobel Prize laureates

• Fritz Pregl, 1923 (chemistry - for his contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis)
• Adolf Windhaus, 1928 (chemistry - for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins)
• Hans Fischer, 1930 (chemistry - for the synthesis of haemin)

Other websites

• "The Innsbruck Medical University Website". i-med.ac.at. http://www.i-med.ac.at/. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
• Study in Austria: A Guide