Walter Rosenthal

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Walter Rosenthal (born October 11, 1954) is a German physician, pharmacologist & science manager, and President of the German Rectors' Conference since May 2023. Prior to that, he was the President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2014-2023). From 2009 to 2014, he was the foundation board member and scientific director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch. From 1996 to 2008 he headed what is today the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP). Walter Rosenthal was born in Siegen in 1954 and studied medicine from 1974 to 1981 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at the Royal Free Hospital in London. In 1983, he received his doctorate at the Justus Liebig University with a pharmacological topic, followed seven years later by his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin in the subject of pharmacology and toxicology. From 1983 to 1984, he was a research assistant at the Pharmacological Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He then moved to the Institute for Pharmacology at the Free University of Berlin, where he worked until 1991. From 1991 to 1993, he worked as a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas on a Heisenberg fellowship . In 1993, he was appointed professor and managing director at the Rudolf Buchheim Institute for Pharmacology at the University of Giessen.