The International Union of Physiological Sciences, abbreviated IUPS, is the global umbrella organization for

physiology Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

. IUPS aims to facilitate initiatives that strengthen the discipline of physiology. IUPS is a scientific union member of the

International Council for Science The International Council for Science (ICSU, after its former name, International Council of Scientific Unions) was an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the advancement of science. Its members ...

(ICSU),IUPS, International Union of Physiological Sciences. Scientific Union Member.
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World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...

(WHO). The Union is composed of 54 National Members, 10 Associate Members, 2 Affiliated Members, 5 Regional Members and 5 Special Members. IUPS organizes an international congress every 4 years and, in association with the

American Physiological Society The American Physiological Society is a non-profit professional society for physiologists. It has nearly 10,000 members, most of whom hold doctoral degrees in medicine, physiology or other health professions. Its mission is to support research and ...

publishes the review journal ''Physiology''. in 2020 it established the journa
Physiome
to publish and curate mathematical models of physiological systems, the

Physiome The physiome of an individual's or species' physiological state is the description of its functional behavior. The physiome describes the physiological dynamics of the normal intact organism and is built upon information and structure (genome, prote ...

. Since 2010 IUPS has participated in the interdisciplinary activities of ''Bio-Unions/ICSU''.

Congresses

Previous Presidents

* 1953-1956 Charles Best * 1956-1959

Corneille Heymans Corneille Jean François Heymans (28 March 1892 – 18 July 1968) was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920. Heymans won the Nobel Pr ...

* 1959-1962 Bernardo Houssay * 1962-1968 G.L. Brown * 1968-1971 Wallace Fenn * 1971-1974

Yngve Zotterman Yngve Zotterman (20 September 1898 in Vadstena – 13 March 1982 in Stockholm) was a Swedish neurophysiologist who received his medical training at the Karolinska Institute. He conducted pioneering studies on nerve conduction together with Edgar ...

* 1974-1980 Eric Neil * 1980-1986 Knut Schmidt-Nielsen * 1986-1993

Andrew Huxley Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 191730 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge on ...

* 1993-1997

Masao Ito was a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute. Overviews Masao Ito was the main force behind Japanese neuroscience and its international recognition for many years. He was very active in the International Br ...

* 1997-2001 Ewald Weibel * 2001-2005 Alan Cowley * 2005-2009 Akimichi Kaneko * 2009-2017

Denis Noble Denis Noble (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Phy ...

* 2017-2022 Julie Chan

Previous Secretaries General

* 1953-1959

Maurice Visscher Maurice Bolks Visscher (August 25, 1901 – May 1, 1983) was an American cardiovascular physiologist. He is best known for demonstrating that cardiac muscle declines in efficiency as it fails, and for pioneering the use of isotopes to study elect ...

* 1959-1965 Wallace Fenn * 1965-1971 JW Duyff * 1971-1980 Robert Hunsperger * 1980-1986 J Scherrer * 1986-1993 Robert Nacquet * 1993-2001

* 2001-2009 Ole Petersen * 2010-2017

Walter Boron Walter F. Boron (born November 18, 1949) is an American scientist and the 72nd president of the American Physiological Society (from 1999 to 2000). He is currently secretary-general of thInternational Union of Physiological Sciences Additionally, ...

Structure

There are eight Commissions IUPS, About Us. Commissions.
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Locomotion Locomotion means the act or ability of something to transport or move itself from place to place. Locomotion may refer to: Motion * Motion (physics) * Robot locomotion, of man-made devices By environment * Aquatic locomotion * Flight * Locomo ...

# Circulation & Respiration # Endocrine, Reproduction & Development #

Neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

# Secretion & Absorption # Molecular & Cellular # Comparative: Evolution, Adaptation & Environment #

Genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

Biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...

References

External links

IUPS Official website
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