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Walter R. Rosenthal, M.D. born 11 Oktober 1954, is a German physician and pharmacologist. He was the founding Director of what is now the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP). In 2014 he became the first president of Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He is recognised as a specialist in signal transduction (G-Proteins, G-protein-coupled receptors and anchoring proteins).>

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Career
Born in Siegen, Germany (1954), Walter Rosenthal read Medicine at University of Giessen and spent his practical year at theRoyal Free Hospitalin London. After obtaining his doctorate in Giessen (1983), he started his postdoctoral research at Free University of Berlin, where he completed a Habilitation in the field of pharmacology (1990). He then spent two years doing research as a Heisenberg scholar and visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (USA).

From 1993 to 1996, he was Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Managing Director of the Rudolph Buchheim Institute of Pharmacology at Giessen University. In 1996, he became founding Director of what is now the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP). Subsequently, he moved to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch, a national research centre of the Helmholtz Association, becoming Scientific Director and Chair of the Board of Directors (2009). He was appointed full Professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 1998 and Professor at Charité Berlin in 2003.

In May 2014, Professor Rosenthal was elected the first President of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ending a 500-year-old tradition of rectors. He was re-elected for a second six-year term starting in October 2020.

Honours and Activities

 * 2011: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Member
 * 2017: Leibniz Association, Member of the Senate
 * 2017: Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Dean of the Max Planck Schools
 * 2018: Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Chair of Scientific Advisory Board
 * 2019: University of Giessen, Board of Trustees

"DFG gratuliert Jörg Hacker zur Wahl als Leopoldina-Präsident" (in German). Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 2 October 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2012.