Dirk Roggenbuck was born in Gotha, Germany, in 1965. He graduated in biochemistry from the Russian State Medical University in 1992. In the same year he received the licence to practice medicine. In 1994 he obtained a PhD degree in Immunology at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Universitätsmedizin Charité Berlin. After postgraduate studies in molecular biology at the Institute of Biochemistry, Universitätsmedizin Charité Berlin, he used to work as a senior scientist at Dr. Fooke Laboratorien GmbH, Germany. In 1997, he joined the MEDIPAN DIAGNOSTICA GmbH, Germany, as R/D Manager. Currently, he works as managing director of GA Generic Assays GmbH, Germany and MEDIPAN. In 2011, he became a senior Lecturer at Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, Senftenberg, Germany. In 2012 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Molecular Diagnostics and Quality Management at the same University, now Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg. He is a member of the German Society of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and a member of the editorial boards of Clinical Immunology (Russian) and Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine. Dirk Roggenbuck published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and received several scientific awards.