Physiology is indeed an enormously fascinating discipline among the natural sciences. Many physiological societies around the world promote physiology by organizing scientific meetings and publishing journals and by many other activities. From May 2022 until…
At Europhysiology, FEPS and IUPS together with renowned African Scientists have organised a hybrid workshop and panel discussion on Africa-Europe collaborations, leadership and funding. All are welcome to participate. The meeting will take place on…
A decade ago, physiology was not widely acknowledged even to be relevant to evolutionary biology. For roughly 80 years since the formulation of the Modern Synthesis in 1942, reinforced by (misinterpretations of) the Central Dogma…
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Tony Macknight on July 13 after a brief illness. Tony was a founding member of the recently established IUPS academy. He…
The IUPS academy which by its distinguished members represents the diversity and excellence of worldwide physiology is growing! IUPS is proud to announce that three Nobel laureates, David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian and Sir Peter Radcliffe…
The general assembly of IUPS has elected a new President, Professor Susan Wray from UK who succeeds Professor Julie Chan who has served two very successful terms as President and Vice President. We thank Julie…
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…
With the terrible news reaching us from the war in Ukraine, nobody can remain silent. IUPS is a global scientific organization obliged to promote science as a way of supporting and improving human life. We…
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…
