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___MASK91___ ( also in British English ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria , on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps . ___MASK91___ is the third largest city in Germany , after Berlin and Hamburg , and the 12th biggest city of the European Union , with a population of above 1 . 5 million . The ___MASK91___ Metropolitan Region is home to 5 . 8 million people . The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science ( abbreviated MPG ) is a formally independent non - governmental and non - profit association of German research institutes founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and renamed the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president , theoretical physicist Max Planck . The society is funded by the federal and state governments of ___MASK30___ as well as other sources . The Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in ___MASK33___ , a suburb of Munich in Germany . Research centers on the basic mechanisms and functions of the developing and adult nervous system . Main focus areas include the mechanisms of information processing and storage . It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society ( Max Planck Gesellschaft ). Hartmut Wekerle ( born May 30 , 1944 ) is a German medical scientist and neurobiologist . He is director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Neuroimmunology . Hartmut Wekerle studied medicine at the University of Freiburg where he also gained his PhD . As a post - doctoral researcher , he worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science ( Israel ) and the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg . Afterwards , he led the Research Group for Multiple Sclerosis at the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology at the University Hospital of the University of Würzburg . In 1988 , he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology . ___MASK33___ is a section of Planegg , a municipality neighboring Munich , Germany . ___MASK33___ lies about 15 km southwest of Munich ' s city center .