Wiendl, Heinz
Prof. Dr. Wiendl is Director of the Department of Neurology with the Institute for Translational Neurology at the University of Münster. As spokesman for the Board of Directors, he represents the Multiple Sclerosis Competence Network in public. Prof. Wiendl is also speaker of 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 and founding spokesman of the Body and Brain Institute Münster, and on the board of the Professional Association of German Neurologists (BDN).
Professional stations
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
Since 2013: Director of the Department of Neurology with Institute for Translational Neurology, Münster University Hospital
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 Prize (2015)
Heinrich Pette Prize (2009)
Sobek Young Talent Award (2004)
Felix-Jerusalem Prize (2003)
Year of birth
1968