IUPS - Academy of Physiology
The Academy will represent the diversity and excellence of worldwide physiology. As an international non-political organization, IUPS is the only body that represents the entire community of physiological researchers, teachers, and students.
IUPS is proud of its Academy of Physiology, launched in 2021.
Our mission is to advance physiological research and teaching and its translation into benefits for health and society. To achieve our mission, we have started forming an Academy.
Call for nominations 2026
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 election of 30 Fellows of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Academy. The deadline for applications is March, 15th, 2026.
With only 30 Fellows elected each year, Fellowship is an honour. The criteria are that the successful candidates will have made exceptional contributions to physiological sciences, in the form of significant original discovery, sustained contributions to scholarship, or in other ways will have rendered a conspicuous service to physiology internationally. As an international organisation, we will take account of geographical variations in resources and opportunities.
Background
Background
The IUPS Academy was launched in 2021 to celebrate and publicise the important contributions made by physiologists to science and health, when we welcomed three Honorary Fellows (Hon FIUPS) (note: 7 as of now) and 30 Fellows (FIUPS) into the academy. Further cohorts of fellows were welcomed in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. A list of these Fellows can be found below
The IUPS Academy represents the diversity and excellence of worldwide physiology. Our mission is to advance physiological research and teaching, and its translation into benefits for health and society.
With only 30 Fellows elected each year, Fellowship is an honour. The criteria are that the successful candidates will have made exceptional contributions to physiological sciences, in the form of significant original discovery, sustained contributions to scholarship, or in other ways will have rendered a conspicuous service to physiology internationally. As an international organisation, we will take account of geographical variations in resources and opportunities.
Nomination procedure
Candidates must be proposed and seconded, and the following information provided on the attached application form:
1. A cover sheet with
The name, institutional address, email address, job title and field of the candidate. The name, email address and signature of the proposer and seconder.
The proposer is responsible for submitting the completed application. The proposer must have the consent of their candidate.
2. A 500-word citation outlining the case for election, heeding the criteria, and referring to the candidate’s ‘10 Key Papers’ document and ‘CV’.
3. List of 10 key publications with PubMed links.
4. Full list of peer reviewed publications.
5. Brief CV, no more than 3 pages, Arial font, size 11. Candidates should prioritise the information they provide to indicate how they meet the Fellowship criteria.
Proposers should send their nominations via email to Laura Davies (laura.davies@iups.org)
with the subject, ‘Fellow Nomination for IUPS Academy’, followed by the name of the candidate. Please ensure you have a personalised (non-automated) acknowledgement in receipt of your emailed proposal to Laura.
The deadline for applications is March, 15th 2026.
Selection of new Fellows
Selection
All nominations will be judged by the IUPS Fellowship task force, based on the criteria outlined above. They will also pay attention to geographical balance.
This group is:
Professor Yoshihiro Kubo (Chair)(Japan), President of IUPS
Professor Susan Wray (UK), Former President of IUPS
Professor William Jackson (USA), IUPS Council
Professor El Wazir Yasser (Egypt), IUPS Council & FIUPS
Professor Robyn Murphy (Australia), FIUPS
Professor Sergio Lavandero (Chile), FIUPS
The task force will make its recommendation to the IUPS Executive Committee, which will make the final decision and ratify the list of successful fellows.
Frequently asked questions
• Can candidates self-nominate? No. They need to be proposed and seconded.
Candidates are free to approach potential proposers.
• Is anybody ineligible for nominations? Yes. Current IUPS Council and Board of General Assembly (BGA) members, and their families, are ineligible.
• Who can be a proposer? Anyone can be a proposer, they do not have to be associated with a national society.
• Can societies propose candidates? Acting as individuals, any society officer can propose candidates, but nominations should not be from, or in the name of, national societies.
• Can a proposer submit multiple proposals? Yes – but this is not encouraged.
• Who submits the paperwork? The proposer should submit the paperwork.
• What is the deadline? 28th February 2026.
• Who do I send the completed paperwork to? Laura Davies at laura.davies@iups.org.
• When will successful candidates be informed? May 2026.
• When will the 2025 Fellows be announced? June 2026.
• Will unsuccessful candidates be informed? Yes, via the proposer/seconder.
• Can unsuccessful candidates reapply? Yes. The former rule—“Names of unsuccessful candidates will be carried forward for four more election rounds, so there is no need to reapply”—was changed in 2026. Under the new rule, candidates must reapply after each unsuccessful election round. After three unsuccessful rounds, fellows are not eligible for nomination for the next three rounds.
• Who do I contact if I have a query? Please contact either Ms Laura Davies,
(laura.davies@iups.org) or Professor Yoshihiro Kubo (IUPS President) (ykubo@nips.ac.jp)
• Can retired people be nominated? Yes. Retired people can be nominated.
Honorary fellows
The Academy is composed of IUPS Honorary Fellows (Hon FIUPS) and Fellows (FIUPS).
Our highest honour is that of Honorary Fellow. This is to those physiologists who have been awarded worldwide recognition and acclaim, such a recipients of the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Our Honorary Fellows
Professor Peter C Agre, MD, Nobel Laureate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/peter-agre
Professor Dr. Stefan W. Hell, Nobel Laureate, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/hell
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Erwin Neher, Nobel Laureate, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany.
https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/neher
Professor David Julius (USA), University of California, San Francisco, USA
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/david.julius
Professor Brian K Kobilka (USA) , Stanford University, School of Medicine
https://med.stanford.edu/kobilkalab.html
Professor Ardem Patapoutian (USA), Scripps Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/patapoutian/
Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe (UK), University of Oxford, and The Francis Crick Institute, London.
https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/peter-ratcliffe,
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/peter-ratcliffe
Vision for the Academy
Our vision for the Academy is that it will be a resource for physiologists. In addition, it will be a source of information and contacts for journalists, funders, charities, politicians, allied health professionals or members of the public.
In consultation with the Fellows of The Academy, the IUPS Council will authorize statements for politicians and the press. Statement topics might include animal research, the significance of physiology, and, the reproducibility and integrity of biomedical data, and its importance to drug development and clinical trials.
The Academy will be a natural home for consensus papers on good practice in physiological research.
IUPS fellows (FIUPS)
The IUPS academy consists in addition to our honorary fellows of annually elected Fellows (FIUPS). These will signify physiologists and allied professionals, who have made exceptional contributions to physiological sciences. This can be in the form of significant original discovery, sustained excellent contributions to scholarship, or (exceptionally) those who in other ways have rendered a conspicuous service to physiology.
See here the list of current Academy fellows
2024, Christian Aalkjaer, Denmark
2023, David Adams, Australia
2023, Erdal Agar, Turkey
2021, Frances Ashcroft, UK
2025, David Attwell, UK
2022, Kim Barrett, USA
2022, Fabio Benfenati, Italy
2022, Laura Bennet, New Zealand
2025, Fransico Bezanilla, USA
2025, Bryndis Birnir, Sweden
2021, Sue Bodine, USA
2022, Andrea Calkovska, Slovakia
2021, Barbara Cannon, Sweden
2021, Peter Carmeliet, Belgium
2023, Julie Chan, Taiwan
2025, Samuel Chan, Taiwan
2021, Sumantra Chattarji, India
2025, Chen Chen, Australia
2021, Shu Chien, USA
2023, John Ciriello, Canada
2022, Marcello Costa †, Australia
2021, Allen Cowley, USA
2022, Maria Claudia DaCosta Irigoyen, Brazil
2025, Tharaka Dassanayake, Sri Lanka
2021, Sandra Davidge, Canada
2022, JoseMaria Delgado-Garcia, Spain
2022, Barbara Demeneix, France
2021, Dario DiFrancesco, Italy
2022, Dragan Djuric, Serbia
2022, Annette Dolphin, UK
2025, Niranga Manjuri Devanarayana, Sri Lanka
2025, Andreas Draguhn, Germany
2021, Anthony Ebeigbe, Nigeria †
2024, Yasser El-Wazir, Egypt
2024, Joachim Fandrey, Germany
2025, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Pakistan
2022, Maria Fitzgerald, UK
2021, Ingrid Fleming, Germany
2025, Russell Foster, UK
2025, Martin Frank, USA
2025, Simon Gandevia, Australia
2025, Margarethe Geiger, Austria
2023, Barbara Goodman, USA
2024, Sarmitsha Ghosh, India
2024, Mangala Gunatilake, Sri Lanka
2024, Patricia Halpin, USA
2025, Jan Henriksson, Sweden
2025, Cecilia Hidalgo, Chile
2022, Marcia Hiriart, Mexico
2023, JensJuul Holst, Denmark
2024, Po-Shiuan Hsieh, Taiwan
2023, Yu Huang, China
2021, Laszlo Hunyady, Hungary
2025, Malcolm Jackson, UK
2021, Kamil Javorka, Slovakia
2023, Han Ji-Sheng, China
2021, Marian Joëls, Holland
2021, Maria Jose C dosSantos, Brazil
2023, Akiminchi Kaneko, Japan
2025, Jihee Lee Kang, Republic of Korea
2024, Masanobu Kano, Japan
2023, Haruo Kasai, Japan
2021, Haluk Keleştimur, Turkey
2023, Naim Khan, France
2025, Gausal Azam Khan, Saudi Arabia
2022, Amira Klip, Canada
2023, Peter Kohl, Germany
2024, Yu Ru Kou Taiwan
2022, Oleg Krishtal, Ukraine
2023, Karl Kunzelmann, Germany
2021, Armin Kurtz, Germany
2025, Alain Lacampagne, France
2021, Ramón Latorre, Chile
2024, Martin Lauritzen, Denmark
2025, Eric Lazartigues, USA
2022, Michel Lazdunski, France
2024, Antigone Lazou, Greece
2024, W. John Lederer, USA
2022, Eminy Lee , Taiwan
2021, Jens Leipziger, Denmark
2022, Peng Li, China
2024, Benedito Honório Machado, Brazil
2021, Tony Macknight, New Zealand †
2022, ChengHwee Ming, Malaysia
2022, Duncan Mitchell, South Africa
2021, Yasushi Miyashita, Japan
2025, Amal Chandra Mondal, India
2022, Kanigula Mubagwa, DRC
2021, Kathryn Myburgh, South Africa
2022, Mark Nelson, USA
2021, Denis Noble, UK
2021, Akinori Noma, Japan
2021, Gavin Norton, South Africa
2024, Toshio Ohhashi, Japan
2022, Harunori Ohmori, Japan
2024, Yasunobu Okada, Japan
2024, David J Paterson, UK
2025, Julian Paton, New Zealand
2024, Stine Falsig Pedersen, Denmark
2021, Ole Petersen, UK
2025, Jaroslav Porkorny, Czech Republic
2024, Rehana Rehman, Pakistan
2021, Tamara Rosenbaum, Mexico
2025, Majan Slak Rupnik, Austria
2021, Amal Saeed, Sudan
2021, Bill Sessa, USA
2021, Hee-Sup Shin, S.Korea
2024, Yoshikazu Shinoda, Japan
2024, Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Israel
2024, Steve Siegelbaum, USA
2024, Dee Silverthorn, USA
2022, Luis Sobrevia, Chile
2023 Olusoga Sofola, Nigeria †
2024, Nick Spencer Australia
2022, Mike Spyer, UK
2022, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Japan
2025, Vatsala Thirumalai, India
2024, Natalia Trayanova, USA
2022, Shaw-Jenq(Sean) Tsai, Taiwan
2025, Jolanda van der Velden, Netherlands
2022, Matthew Watt , Australia
2024, Masashi Yanagisawa, Japan
2025, Tian Xue, China
2024, Bayram Yilmaz, Turkey
2025, Michisuke Yuzaki, Japan
2025, Sotirios Zarogiannis, Greece
2022, Juleen Zierath , Sweden
2022, Irving Zucker, USA
Fellows of IUPS Academy 2025
David Attwell, UK
Fransico Bezanilla, USA
Bryndis Birnir, Sweden
Samuel Chan, Taiwan
Chen Chen, Australia
Tharaka Dassanayake, Sri Lanka
Niranga Manjuri Devanarayana, Sri Lanka
Andreas Draguhn, Germany
Syeda Sadia Fatima, Pakistan
Russell Foster, UK
Martin Frank, USA
Simon Gandevia, Australia
Margarethe Geiger, Austria
Jan Henriksson, Sweden
Cecilia Hidalgo, Chile
Malcolm Jackson, UK
Jihee Lee Kang, Republic of Korea
Gausal Azam Khan, Saudi Arabia
Alain Lacampagne, France
Eric Lazartigues, USA
Amal Chandra Mondal, India
Julian Paton, New Zealand
Jaroslav Porkorny, Czech Republic
Majan Slak Rupnik, Austria
Vatsala Thirumalai, India
Jolanda van der Velden, Netherlands
Tian Xue, China
Michisuke Yuzaki, Japan
Sotirios Zarogiannis, Greece
Fellows of IUPS Academy 2024
Christian Aalkjaer, Denmark
Yasser El-Wazir, Egypt
Joachim Fandrey, Germany
Sarmitsha Ghosh, India
Mangala Gunatilake, Sri Lanka
Patricia Halpin, USA
Po-Shiuan Hsieh, Taiwan
Masanobu Kano, Japan
Yu Ru Kou, Taiwan
Martin Lauritzen, Denmark
Antigone Lazou, Greece
W. John Lederer, USA
Benedito Honório Machado, Brazil
Toshio Ohhashi, Japan
Yasunobu Okada, Japan
David J Paterson, UK
Stine Falsig Pedersen, Denmark
Rehana Rehman, Pakistan
Yoshikazu Shinoda, Japan
Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Israel
Steve Siegelbaum, USA
Dee Silverthorn, USA
Nick Spencer, Australia
Natalia Trayanova, USA
Masashi Yanagisawa, Japan
Bayram Yilmaz, Turkey
Fellows of IUPS Academy 2023
David Adams, Australia
Erdal Agar, Turkey
Julie Chan, Taiwan
John Ciriello, Canada
Barbara Goodman, USA
Ji-Sheng Han, China
Jens Juul Holst, Denmark
Yu Huang, China
Akiminchi Kaneko, Japan
Haruo Kasai, Japan
Naim Khan, France
Peter Kohl, Germany
Karl Kunzelmann, Germany
Sergio Lavandero, Chile
Guang-Hui Liu, China
Sadis Matalon, USA
Alicia Mattiazzi, Argentina
Jean-Baptiste Michel, France
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, China
Robyn Murphy, Australia
Ursula Ravens, Germany
Jane Reckelhoff, USA
Dipak Sarkar, USA
Saeed Semnanian, Iran
Curt Sigmund, USA
Karin Sipido, Belgium
Olusoga Sofola, Nigeria †
Fellows of IUPS Academy 2022
Kim Barrett, USA
Fabio Benfenati, Italy
Laura Bennet, New Zealand
Andrea Calkovska, Slovakia
Marcello Costa †, Australia
Maria Claudia da Costa Irigoyen, Brazil
Jose Maria Delgado-Garcia, Spain
Barbara Demeneix, France
Annette Dolphin, UK
Dragan M Djuric, Serbia
Maria Fitzgerald, UK
Marcia Hiriart, Mexico
Amira Klip, Canada
Oleg Krishtal, Ukraine
Michel Lazdunski, France
Eminy Lee, Taiwan
Peng Li, China
Cheng Hwee Ming, Malaysia
Duncan Mitchell, South Africa
Kanigula Mubagwa, DRC
Mark Nelson, USA
Harunori Ohmori, Japan
Luis Sobrevia, Chile
Mike Spyer, UK
Tomoyuki Takahashi, Japan
Shaw-Jenq (Sean) Tsai, Taiwan
Matthew Watt, Australia
Juleen Zierath, Sweden
Irving Zucker, USA
Fellows of IUPS Academy 2021
Frances Ashcroft, UK
Sue Bodine, USA
Maria Jose Campagnole-Santos, Brazil
Barbara Cannon, Sweden
Peter Carmeliet, Belgium
Sumantra Chattarji, India
Shu Chien, USA
Allen Cowley, USA
Sandra Davidge, Canada
Dario DiFrancesco, Italy
Anthony Ebeigbe †, Nigeria
Ingrid Fleming, Germany
Laszlo Hunyady, Hungary
Kamil Javorka, Slovakia
Marian Joëls, Holland
Haluk Kelestimur, Turkey
Armin Kurtz, Germany
Ramón Latorre, Chile
Jens Leipziger, Denmark
Tony Macknight †, New Zealand
Yasushi Miyashita, Japan
Kathryn Myburgh, South Africa
Denis Noble, UK
Akinori Noma, Japan
Gavin Norton †, South Africa
Ole Petersen, UK
Tamara Rosenbaum, Mexico
Amal Saeed, Sudan
Bill Sessa, USA
Hee-Sup Shin, South Korea
We will have an annual call for proposals for elected Fellows. Membership will be limited to 30 new FIUPS each year.
IUPS welcomes the support our FIUPS can bring.
These FIUPS and Hon FIUPS will help shape development of the IUPS Academy. Their advice on the best strategy and approaches for us to deliver on this vision for the benefit of the international physiological community is key to the Academy’s success.
The expertise and talents of our Academy Fellows can help IUPS, by consulting on specific IUPS activities and projects.
IUPS Awards
