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Professor Josef Köhrle announced as first Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Endocrinology

Date: 24 September 2024

The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) is delighted to announce that the first Editor-in-Chief of its new journal, Environmental Endocrinology, is Professor Josef Köhrle.  

Environmental Endocrinology is the European Society of Endocrinology’s new inter-disciplinary open-access journal publishing high-quality clinical, translational, and basic research on all aspects of environmental impacts on hormone systems in humans and living systems, incorporating the One Health perspective. The launch issue is scheduled for Q2 2025, and submissions are now being welcomed via the Journal’s website.   

Jérôme Bertherat, ESE President, said: “I am delighted that Josef will be the first Editor-in-Chief of ESE’s new Environmental Endocrinology journal. He has a deep understanding of environmental endocrinology through his long-term, outstanding research experience, dedication to the field and is highly respected across his wide international network. Josef also has a strong editorial background having served on the boards of several endocrinology and thyroid specialist journals and is particularly experienced in the early life of a new journal having previously served as Senior Editor during the launch of Endocrine Connections.” 

Professor Köhrle has been Senior Professor, Molecular Endocrinology at the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany since 2017. Before that he served as Director of this institute from 2002-2017. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and endocrinology from University of Hanover, Germany; and in 1991 was awarded Habilitation for Experimental Endocrinology, Medizinische Hochschule in Hanover.  

Josef Köhrle