IUPS calls for applications for two newly established IUPS Prizes, the Julie Chan Prize, and up to 4 Early-Stage Faculty Prizes for physiologists. The IUPS Julie Chan Prize is for physiologists who have contributed to…
A call of nominations for the Kavli Prize 2024 is open until October 1st, 2023. The Kavli Prize is committed to recognizing breakthrough basic science worldwide. Breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience are considered. Anyone…
As already announced the EASPS will held its first scientific meeting in Dar es Salaam later this year (Nov. 29- Dec.1st). This is a big move forward and we hope that the meeting will be…
Upon an initiative led by Yoshihiro Kubo, Vice president of IUPS, some members of the IUPS ExCo recently held a zoom meeting with representatives of physiologists in Vietnam and Laos. The academic situation in both…
The IUPS executive committee has enormous pleasure to formally announce our 2023 Fellows. Fellowship is a mark of academic distinction and contribution to worldwide physiology. It is a competitive election and as can be seen…
The 100th Anniversary Annual meeting of PSJ (president of the meeting : Prof. Tadashi Isa) was recently held at the Kyoto International Conference Center (https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/psj2023/en_index/). It was part of the Year of Physiology . At…
IUPS continues supporting teaching workshops – the most recent example is the teaching workshop “On line Assessments for Learning and Evaluating Pre-Clinical Sciences” organized by the Physiological society of Sri Lanka and the National University…
The recent and very well organized Europhysiology Congress in Copenhagen was not only a truly pan-European scientific highlight but also a good opportunity to meet friends again and to enjoy the atmosphere of a vibrant…
The Commission of Experimental Cardiology (KEK) at the Slovak Physiological Society and the Czech Physiological Society and the Institute for Heart Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences organizes annual conferences alternating between the Czech…
Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova….Pääbo’s seminal research gave rise to an…