Wilfried Dimpfel

Über Wilfried Dimpfel

Wifried Dimpfel, born 1945 in Königswinter, Germany, studied veterinary medicine in Berlin and Munich. In 1973 he finished his inaugural dissertation at Free University Berlin. In 1976 he got his habilitation (pharmacology and toxicology) at the department of human medicine at Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany, governed by Prof. Dr. Ernst Habermann. Since 1983 he is Honorary Professor at the Rudolf Buchheim Institute for Pharmacology, University of Giessen. For many years he acted as chief editor of the “European Journal of Medical Research”. As “Max Kade scholar, New York” he joined the National Institute of Health in Bethesda discovering his fascination for electric events produced by the nervous system. His view to analyze drug effects using neurophysiological methods in a more effective manner in comparison to other methods has been confirmed since then. Together with biologist Dr. Manfred Spüler he developed preclinical approaches succeeding in entirely new characterizations of drug effects based on the changes of electric activity of rat brain in vitro and in vivo.