Mission & Vision

IUPS is a non-political and non-geographical scientific organization representing more than 60 physiological societies worldwide. Together with national societies, IUPS promotes physiology as a valuable scientific discipline, emphasizing its relevance to medicine and  global health. IUPS serves physiologists worldwide by supporting a communication platform that allows international exchange between scientists and scientific societies and fosters global networking of physiologists to support the development of regional infrastructures to improve physiological research and teaching.

Our vision for physiology is to be an excellent and well renowned scientific discipline which is an indispensable constituent of modern medicine and public health, attracting the best scientists worldwide.