Wiendl, Heinz
Prof. Dr. Heinz Wiendl is Director of the Clinic of Neurology and Neurophysiology at the University Hospital Freiburg. As spokesman for the Board of Directors, he represents the Multiple Sclerosis Competence Network in public. Until 2024, Prof. Wiendl was also spokesperson for the DFG-funded Transregio Comprehensive Research Centre 128 “Multiple Sclerosis” (Rhine-Main, Münster, Munich), board member of the Medical Advisory Board of the German MS Society (DMSG), associate member of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association, founding spokesperson of the Body and Brain Institute Münster and on the board of the Professional Association of German Neurologists (BDN).
Professional stations
Since 2024: Director of the Clinic of Neurology and Neurophysiology, University Hospital Freiburg
Since 2019: Founding spokesperson of the “Body and Brain Münster” project, funding for the new research building approved by the federal government in accordance with Art 91 GG
2016-2019: Representative of the professors on the Supervisory Board of Münster University Hospital
2013-2024: Director of the Department of Neurology with Institute for Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster
2012-2016: Dean of Research and Junior Academics at the Faculty of Medicine Münster
2010-2013: Director of the Neurological Clinic – Neuroinflammation and Neurooncology, University Hospital Münster
2005-2010: Senior Consultant, Head of Clinical Research Group MS and Neuroimmunology, Neurological Clinic of the University of Würzburg
2000-2004: Scientific Assistant, Head of Junior Research Group Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen Training
Education
2000-2004: Specialist training at the University Hospital of Tübingen
1998-2000: Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Research Foundation at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology/Neuroimmunology, Martinsried
1996-1997: Specialist training (AiP) University Hospital Neurology Erlangen, Anatomy Erlangen
1989-1996: Studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen, Basel and Duke University North Carolina
Main research areas
- Functional interaction of the immune system with the nervous system
- Immune regulation in the central nervous system: Regulatory T cells and protective immunity
- Mechanisms of inflammatory neurodegeneration
- Connection between neurodegeneration and inflammation
- Immunophysiology
- Immune evasion of brain tumors
Membership
- Among others on the board of the DMSG and the BDN
Awards
Sobek-Preis (2015)
Heinrich-Pette-Preis (2009)
Sobek-Nachwuchs-Preis (2004)
Felix-Jerusalem Preis (2003)
Year of birth
1968