Regius Professorship of Physiology is a

Regius Chair A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine, and ...

at the

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that was founded in 1839 by Queen Victoria. It was originally titled the Regius Chair of Theory of Physic or Institutes of Medicine but the name changed to Regius Chair of

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 ...

in 1893.

List of Regius Professors of Physiology

* 1839 to 1876: Andrew Buchanan * 1876 to 1906:

John Gray McKendrick John Gray McKendrick FRS FRSE FRCPE LLD (12 August 1841 – 2 January 1926) was a distinguished Scottish physiologist. He was born and studied in Aberdeen, Scotland, and served as Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow fr ...

* 1906 to 1928: Noel Paton * 1928 to 1947:

Edward Provan Cathcart Edward Provan Cathcart (18 July 1877 – 18 February 1954) was a Scottish physician and physiologist of international fame. The Cathcart Chair in Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow is named after him. Together with John Boyd Orr he pub ...

* 1947 to 1970:

Robert Campbell Garry Robert Campbell Garry DSc (1933) OBE FRSE LLD (1900–1993) was a British physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow. During World War II, as an expert on human physiology, he advised on ...

* 1971 to 1990: Otto Hutter * 1991 to 2012: John Christie (Ian) McGrath * 2012 to present: Tomasz Guzik

References

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