Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neurooncology
Kundratstr. 3
A 1100 VIENNA
Austria
Tel : +43 1 60191 2001
Fax: +43 1 60191 2009

Dr. Wolfgang Grisold is Prof of Neurology at the Department of Neurology, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for NeuroOncology, Vienna, Austria. MD 1976, He attended pathology, internal medicine and psychiatry and entered neurology training in 1979. His clinical training in neurology ended in 1984. He then worked as a consultant for clinical neurology and also in clinical electrophysiology. From 1978 -1989 He worked in the LBI for Clinical Neurobiology (neuropathology, neuroimmunology). From 1989 he is the head of the department of Neurology at the Kaiser Franz Josef hospital in Vienna, since 1997 chair of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for NeuroOncology. His research is focused on paraneoplastic syndromes and neuromuscular syndromes.

Scientific team
Marcus DRLICEK (MD), Brigitte HESS, Ursula UNTERBERGER (MD), Till VOIGTLÄNDER (MD), Heinz Lahrmann, Sabine Urbanits, Stefan Oberndorfer

Research facilities
Immunohistochemistry and immunoblot techniques to detect onconeural antibodies.

Areas of interest
Epidemiology of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
Tumor-antibody interactions
Neuromuscular complications, neuromuscular transmission disorders.
Neurotoxicity of commonly used antineoplastic drugs.

Selected references
1. Grisold W, Jellinger K, Lutz D. Human neurolymphomatosis in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Clin Neuropathol 1990; 9: 224- 230
2. Grisold W, Drlicek M, Setinek U. Anti-tumour therapy in paraneoplastic neurological disease. Clinical Neurology Neurosurgery; 1995; 97: 106-111
3. Wondrusch E, Zifko U, Grisold W et al. Neuromuscular disorders in systemic malignancy and it`s treatment. Muscle Nerve 1996; 19: 1362- 1363
4. Grisold W, Drlicek M, Setinek U. LC: Clinical syndrome in different primaries. J Neurooncol 1998; 38: 103-110
5. Grisold W, Drlicek M. Paraneoplastic neuropathy. Current Opinion in Neurology 1999; 12: 617- 625