Scientific Directorate
Chair of the Board and Scientific Director
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Prof. Dr. Walter Rosenthal
84: Hermann von Helmholtz House
Room: 1116
Tel. 9406-3278
Fax. 949-7008
Professor Walter Rosenthal, the Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, is a physican and pharmacologist. In addition to his position at the MDC, he holds a full Professorship for Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology at the Charité–Universitätsmedizin.
Walter Rosenthal studied medicine at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the Royal Free Hospital, School of Medicine London, UK. After graduating from the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in 1983, (Dr. med.) he became postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Pharmacology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, and guest scientist at the Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
In 1984 Professor Rosenthal held a postdoc position at the Institute of Pharmacology of the Free University of Berlin. In 1990 he finished his habilitation thesis, and a year later he received accreditation as a physican specialized in the areas of Pharmacology and Toxicology from the Berlin Chamber of Physicians. He spent the following two years as Visiting Professor and Heisenberg Fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
From 1993 – 1996 he was Professor and the Director of the Rudolf-Buchheim-Institut for Pharmacology at the University of Gießen. In 1996 he became the Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin-Buch. Since 1998 he has held the Professorship for Molecular Pharmacology that was originally established at the Free University of Berlin and has subsequently been transferred to the Charité-Universitätsmedizin.
Since January 2009 he has held the position of Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch. Professor Rosenthal’s research group at the MDC focuses on membrane-anchored proteins and the relationship between their signal transduction functions and cell compartmentalization.