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…
Together with many others, IUPS is dismayed about what currently happens in the Ukraine. We fully support the statement of ISC on this matter. We all hope for peace in the Ukraine and in other…
On March 26th and May 12-13, you are invited to participate in teaching workshops! For details click here or visit our “Activities” page. A pre-IUPS2022 satellite meeting will take place on May 6th, including three…
In view of the horrible war in the Ukraine, the Latin American Association of Physiological sciences, a regional member society of IUPS recently expressed its intention to offer help to Ukrainian and Russian physiologists to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the interest of the health of our speakers and attendees, IUPS and the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences after thorough considerations decided to postpone the 2021 IUPS Congress…
The contribution of quantitative modeling to understanding of physiological mechanisms has been important in the past and will become even more significant with increasing complexity of signaling pathways and regulatory interactions. The new APS journal…
To celebrate and publicize the important contributions made by physiologists to science and health, IUPS has now launched the IUPS Academy of Physiology. IUPS is delighted to announce its inaugural list of three Honorary Fellows…