Endocrine Abstracts

Bruno Allolio, University of Würzberg, Germany Abstract

Bruno Allolio is Professor of Medicine at the University of Würzburg and Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the University Hospital Würzburg.

He trained in Cologne in both clinical and experimental endocrinology. For postdoctoral studies he worked at Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. After Habilitation in 1988 he moved to Würzburg in 1992.

In 1988 he received the Schöller-Junkmann Award of the German Society of Endocrinology. He has served as Editor for the European Journal of Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He was the first media spokesman for the German Society of Endocrinology and he served in the first executive committee of the European Society of Endocrinology.

He has published over 300 original articles, reviews and book chapters.

His research interests focus on adrenal disorders, mineral metabolism, and recently also on hyponatraemia. He is a founding member of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours (ENSAT) and serves on the Expert Commission of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.