The Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies of ANAS was established in 2016 on the basis of the Department of Fundamental Problems of Biological Productivity of the Institute of Botany, ANAS. The Department of Fundamental Problems of Biological Productivity was founded by a great scientist and socio-political leader, academician Jalal Aliyev at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1971.
Since 2019, ED 1.25 Dissertation Council has been functioning at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies of ANAS for the purpose of organizing the defense of PhD and doctoral dissertations in molecular biology, biochemistry, and plant physiology. The dissertation council consists of 18 people. A Seminar Council functions on the above-mentioned specialties under the Dissertation Council, which consists of a total of 21 specialists, 7 in each specialty.