The Dutch Society for Glycobiology is a professional organisation founded in 1978. The society provides a platform for Dutch scientists and their colleagues from industry that share an interest in carbohydrate structure and glycobiology in general. The members of the society form an interdisciplinary group including among others molecular and medical biologists, chemists and biochemists and biotechnologists. All share an interest in the complex structures and structure-function relationships of carbohydrates and compounds comprising (complex) carbohydrates or saccharides, such as glycoproteins, glycolipids and glycosaminoglycans, in biological systems.

The aim of the Dutch Society for Glycobiology is to exchange knowledge and stimulate research and personal communications in Glycobiology. Besides national activities, the society organises annual conferences in conjunction with partner societies from Germany (the "Studiengruppe Glykobiologie der Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie"), France (the "Groupe Lillois de Glycobiologie"), and Belgium (the "Belgian Working Group for Glycosciences").