Walter Rosenthal (born October 11, 1954) is a German physician, pharmacologist & science manager, and President of the German Rectors' Conference since May 2023.[1] Prior to that, he was the President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2014-2023).[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.[3] From 1996 to 2008 he headed what is today the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP).