Prof. Wolf-Dieter Heiss Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Germany

Wolf-Dieter Heiss is Emeritus Professor of Neurology of the University of Cologne and retired Director of the Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, and of the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany. He studied medicine and received his training at the University of Vienna. He worked in... read moreseveral research institutes, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, State University of New York in Buffalo and University of Minnesota. His main interest and his scientific contributions were in the field of experimental ischemia and clinical stroke and in neuroimaging, especially positron emission tomography.