The Endocrinological Laboratory Diagnostics Division offers a forum for discussion, advanced training and scientific cooperation within the DGKL to laboratory physicians, clinical chemists, clinical endocrinologists, research scientists and other colleagues interested in hormone diagnostics. In addition, the division aims to promote, coordinate and develop specific initiatives to improve the quality of routine endocrinological diagnostics.
The quantification of hormones in various biological samples is not only an indispensable part of diagnostics, but also of therapeutic monitoring of endocrinological diseases. In addition, the endocrinological laboratory in particular has traditionally been a research-active engine of methodological innovations and further developments. The requirements range from the development of exotic assays for research projects to the optimization of high-throughput methods for routine clinical analysis. The chemical peculiarities of the very differently structured analytes, and the special dependence of hormone concentrations on pre-analytical conditions and influencing variables, give rise to a multitude of specific questions, requiring a special interdisciplinary cooperation between research science, laboratory and clinical practice to provide answers.
Joint workshops with the German Society for Endocrinology and the German Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
German Society for
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine e. V.
Berlin office
Alt-Moabit 96a
10559 Berlin
T +49 (0)30 394 054-15
Bonn office
Friesdorfer Straße 153
53175 Bonn
T +49 (0)228 926 895-0
F +49 (0)228 926 895-27
geschaeftsstelle(at)dgkl.de