IUPS2002, which was perfectly organized by our colleagues from CAPS offered five days of exciting science presented by speakers in 7 plenary lectures, 21 keynote lectures and 48 symposia. The program was completed by 4…

Wallace Fenn was instrumental in the founding of the IUPS in 1953. He served as Secretary General from 1959 to 1965, and President from 1968 to 1971. His work on muscle physiology is recognized in…

One of the major challenges facing physiology is that of understanding the interactions between different systems as well as of linking organism–wide physiological functions, or dysfunction in the case of disease, to information encoded in…

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen was President of the IUPS from 1980 to 1986. He is the founding editor of News in Physiological Sciences (now known as Physiology). He is regarded as the father of comparative physiology and…

Robert Pitts helped provide a fundamental understanding of the way the kidneys excreted acidic wastes and thereby maintained the body’s delicate biochemical balance between acidic and alkaline states. He is also known for his work…

Ernst Knobil was 1st Vice President of the IUPS from 1997 to 2001. His work provided the basis for current understanding of the female reproductive system. His work enabled the development of the world’s first…

August Krogh is the 1920 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle. He was also a pioneer in comparative physiology with publications…

The programme of our virtual congress 2022 (organized together with the Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences) has many highlights. Among them are the seven named IUPS lectures. The speaker of the president’s lecture is nominated…