Walter Rosenthal

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Walter Rosenthal (2017)

Walter Rosenthal (born  October 11, 1954 in Siegen ) is a German doctor and pharmacologist . He has been Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Charité in Berlin since 2003 and was Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch from 2009 to 2014 , having previously headed today's Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology from 1996 to 2008 would have. On September 1, 2014, he took over the office of President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena as the successor to the political scientist Klaus Dicke . In June 2019 he was mutually confirmed in office for a further six years by the Senate and University Council.

Life

Walter Rosenthal was born in Siegen in 1954 and studied medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1974 to 1981 . He completed his practical year from 1980 to 1981 at the Royal Free Hospital , a teaching hospital in London . In 1983 he received his doctorate in Gießen 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 worked as a research assistant at the Pharmacological Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , after which he moved to the Institute of Pharmacology at the Free University of Berlin until 1991.

From 1991 to 1993 he was a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas city ​​of Houston 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. Three years later he went to Berlin and took over the post of director of the Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), today's Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology .

In addition, Walter Rosenthal was Professor at the Institute for Pharmacology at the Free University of Berlin from 1998 to 2003, and since 2003 he has been Professor for Molecular Pharmacology at the Institute for Pharmacology at the Charité . In January 2009 he moved from the FMP to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch , a major research facility of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers with around 880 employees and an annual budget of around 50 million euros scientific director and chairman of the foundation board. At the MDC he succeeded Walter Birchmeier .

In 2011 Rosenthal was elected to the Leopoldina . Since 2014 he has been a guest in the Senate of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

Works (selection)

  • Encyclopedic Reference of Molecular Pharmacology. Berlin, Heidenberg and New York 2004 (as co-editor)
  • Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology. Two volumes. Berlin, Heidenberg and New York 2008 (as co-editor)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenapolis: Prof. Dr. Rosenthal elected as the new President of the FSU ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Published on May 23, 2014
  2. ^ 'Rosenthal re-elected as President of the University of Jena', Thüringer Allgemeine June 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Rosenthal re-elected as President of the University of Jena. 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Member entry of Walter Rosenthal (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins