Walter Rosenthal

[2] 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.

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.

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.

An important discovery of one of his research groups is a substance that can prevent water retention in body tissue and thus the formation of edema.