!!!Heiss, Wolf-Dieter Heiss, Wolf-Dieter, b. Zell am See (province of Salzburg), Dec. 31, 1939, neurologist. Studied in Vienna; later did research in the USA and Sweden. From 1978 head of the clinical scientific branch of the Centre for Cerebral Vascular Research of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Cologne and Director of the Department of Neurology of the City Hospital Cologne-Meierheim; since 1982 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research; since 1985 Director of the Department of General Neurology of the University of Cologne. About 300 publications, particularly in the field of brain research (strategies for strokes, brain tumours, dementias and epilepsy). %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Heiss,_Wolf-Dieter|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]