Foundation:

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Age Research was founded in 1972 by Prof. DDr. Karl Fellinger. In 1988, Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Tragl took over the administrative management and in 1991 he became Manager of the Institute. Under his management, working groups were set up to deal with significant questions and particularly renowned specialist medical scientists were found to coordinate them. Research topics of these working groups were and still remain central issues of age-related medicine such as metabolism, osteopathy and dementia research.

Since 2002, Prof. Dr. Peter Pietschmann has supported the Institute’s Management as Administrative Manager. 

Since January 2008 the work group "Innovative Imaging Diagnostic" with Prof. Dr. W. Hruby is part of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Age Research.

Objects and contents:

The objects of the Institute for Age Research are to investigate ageing processes and their connection with the onset of diseases and to examine age-adapted possibilities for treatment of diseases that are characteristic of older people. Current studies are dedicated to age-related changes in the brain (dementia diseases), the bones (osteoporosis) and metabolism (hormonal disturbances).
The therapeutic approaches of the studies include the delaying of dementia diseases through cholinesterase inhibitors and the effects of biophosphonates and mineral replacement upon osteoporosis.

Institutional partners:

University of Medicine of Vienna
Centre for Social Medicine – East (SMZO), Danube Hospital, Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund
University of Medicine of Innsbruck, University Clinic for Psychiatry

Further cooperation also takes place within Europe, for example with the University Hospital of Basel and worldwide with the Center of Neurological and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Koseikai Takeda Hospital, Japan.