The Physiological Society

The Physiological Society
Formation	1876
Purpose	Support the advancement of physiology
Headquarters	London, England
Membership	2500 Members
President	David Attwell
Chief Executive	Dariel Burdass
President-Elect	Annette Dolphin
Website	www.physoc.org

Short description: Learned society for physiologists in the United Kingdom

The Physiological Society, founded in 1876, is a learned society for physiologists in the United Kingdom .

History

The Physiological Society was founded in 1876 as a dining society "for mutual benefit and protection" by a group of 19 physiologists, led by John Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster, as a result of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and the subsequent 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act.^[1] Other founding members included: William Sharpey, Thomas Huxley, George Henry Lewes, Francis Galton, John Marshall, George Murray Humphry, Frederick William Pavy, Lauder Brunton, David Ferrier, Philip Pye-Smith, Walter H. Gaskell, John Gray McKendrick, Emanuel Edward Klein, Edward Schafer, Francis Darwin, George Romanes, and Gerald Yeo. The aim was to promote the advancement of physiology. Charles Darwin and William Sharpey were elected as the society's first two Honorary Members. The society first met at Sanderson's London home. The first rules of the society offered membership to no more than 40, all of whom should be male "working" physiologists.^[2] Women were first admitted as members in 1915 and the centenary of this event was celebrated in 2015.^[3]

Michael Foster was also founder of The Journal of Physiology in 1878, and was appointed to the first Chair of Physiology at the University of Cambridge in 1883.

The archives are held at the Wellcome Library.^[4]

Present day

The Society consists of over 2500 members, including 14 Nobel Laureates drawn from over 50 countries. The majority of members are engaged in research, in universities or industry, into how the body works in health and disease and in teaching physiology in schools and universities. The Society also facilitates communication between scientists and with other interested groups.

The Physiological Society publishes the academic journals The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology, and with the American Physiological Society publishes the online only, open access journal Physiological Reports.^[5] It also publishes the membership magazine Physiology News.

The society is based at Hodgkin Huxley House in Farringdon, London, named for Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley.^[6]

Presidents

The post of president was established in 2001, and the society's current president is David Attwell. Past holders include:^[7]

Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2003 (2003): Colin Blakemore
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2006 (2006): Richard A. North
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2008 (2008): Ole Holger Petersen
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2010 (2010): Clive H. Orchard ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2012 (2012): Kenneth M. Spyer ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2014 (2014): Jonathan Ashmore
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2016 (2016): Richard Vaughan-Jones ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2018 (2018): David A. Eisner
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2020 (2020): Bridget Lumb ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time". – 2022 (2022): David Paterson^[8]
2022 – 2024: David Attwell

Prizes

The Society awards a number of prizes for meritorious achievement.^[9]

Annual Review Prize Lecture

The society considers its Annual Review Prize Lecture, first awarded in 1968, to be its premier award.^[9]

International Prize Lecture

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: David I. Cook ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jonathan F. Ashmore
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David J. Beech ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Simon C. Gandevia ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Mark J. Dunne ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David Allen (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David Attwell
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Giovanni E. Mann ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Richard Vaughan-Jones ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Kenneth M. Spyer ({{{2}}})

Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture

Named for William Bayliss and Ernest Starling. Originally awarded every three years, since 2015 it is awarded annually alternating between established and early-career physiologists.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: Charles Lovatt Evans
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Ivan De Burgh Daly
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Archibald Hill
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Roderic Alfred Gregory
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Henry Barcroft
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David Whitteridge
Script error: No such module "Date time".: J R Pappenheimer
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Bernard Katz
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John Zachary Young
Script error: No such module "Date time".: James Black
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John Vane
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David A. Brown ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Salvador Moncada
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Gerhard Giebisch
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Roderick Flower
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Gero Miesenböck
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jerome A. Dempsey ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Graham J. Dockray
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Steven Bloom ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Kim Barrett – Endogenous and exogenous control of gastrointestinal epithelial function: building on the legacy of Bayliss and Starling^[11]
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Lisa Heather ({{{2}}}) - Cardiac metabolism in disease: All fuels are equal, but some fuels are more equal than others.
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Helen E. Raybould ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Patrick Lewis (physiologist) ({{{2}}}) – Leucine rich repeat kinase 2: From pathology to physiology and back again
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Maria Fitzgerald

Biller Prize Lecture

Named in memory of Kathy Biller. Given to a worker in the field of renal or epithelial physiology, under 35 years old. It has now been discontinued.^[10]

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: Matthew Bailey (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Donald T. Ward ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Gavin Stewart (physiologist) ({{{2}}})

G L Brown Prize Lecture

Named for George Lindor Brown. These lectures are delivered at various institutions and intended to stimulate an interest in physiology.^[10]

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: P F Baker ({{{2}}}) and Patrick A. Merton ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Eric Neil ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John Nicholls
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John S. Gillespie ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Michael de Burgh Daly ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Graham J. Dockray
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Semir Zeki
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Anthony Angel ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Colin Blakemore
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Nicholas B. Standen ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Roger N. Lemon ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jonathan F. Ashmore
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Annette Dolphin
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Richard Vaughan-Jones ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Stuart Cull-Candy
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Frances M. Ashcroft
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Ian D. Forsythe ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Peter Lipp ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David J. Paterson
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Stephen B. McMahon ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Chris Peers (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Mark J. Dunne ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Michael J. Rennie ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Godfrey L. Smith ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: C. A. Richard Boyd ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Nina Balthasa ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: J Graham McGeown ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Lucilla Poston
Script error: No such module "Date time".: James Deuchars ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Anant Parekh
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David A. Eisner
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Mike Tipton
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Molly Stevens
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Rachel Tribe
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Andrew Parker (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Pamela Shaw

G W Harris Prize Lecture

Named in memory of Geoffrey Harris. Now discontinued.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: George Fink (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Ernest M. Wright
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Graham J. Dockray
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Iain C. A. F. Robinson ({{{2}}})

Hodgkin–Huxley–Katz Prize Lecture

Named after Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley and Bernard Katz, and normally awarded to a physiologist from outside the UK or Ireland.^[10]

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: Bert Sakmann
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Denis Noble
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Script error: No such module "Date time".: Eric Kandel
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Roger Nicoll
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Cori Bargmann
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Erin M. Schuman
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Karin Sipido ({{{2}}}) – Calcium microdomains in cardiac myocytes
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jack L. Feldman
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Stephen Traynelis ({{{2}}})

Joan Mott Prize Lecture

Named for Joan Mott.^[10]

Michael de Burgh Daly Prize Lecture

Named for Michael de Burgh Daly ({{{2}}}).

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: James F X Jones ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Michael J. Joyner
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Colin A. Nurse ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Tobias Wang ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Peter Carmeliet
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Nanduri R. Prabhakar ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Katrin Schröder (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: F Gribble

Otto Hutter Teaching Prize

Named for Otto Hutter, and awarded to teachers of undergraduate physiology.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: Mary Cotter ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Neil Morris (neuroscientist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Eugene Lloyd ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Dave Lewis (neuroscientist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Judy Harris (physiologist) ({{{2}}}) – Engaging students and valuing teachers
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Prem Kumar (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Louise Robson ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Julia Choate
Script error: No such module "Date time".: James Clark

The President's Lecture

Initiated in 2017, the President’s Lecture is awarded by the President of The Society to a recipient of their choosing. This prestigious lecture is awarded at the discretion of The Society’s President.

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jeffrey M. Friedman
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jessica U. Meir
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Sir Patrick Vallance

R Jean Banister Prize Lecture

Named for R Jean Banister. Awarded to an early-career physiologist and delivered at various institutions.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: Alicia D’Souza ({{{2}}}) – Getting excited about pacemaking in the athletic heart: interplay of transcription factors and microRNAs in pacemaker electrophysiology.
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Nathalie L Rochefort ({{{2}}}) – Decoding the visual cortex
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Bethan Phillips – Physiological adaptations to traditional and novel exercise interventions as a function of age
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Marie Holt (physiologist) ({{{2}}})

The Paton Lecture

Named for William D.M. Paton, and given on a historical aspect of physiology.^[10]

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: Hans Ussing
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Patrick D. Wall
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Vernon B. Mountcastle
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Daniel P. Todes ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John H. Coote
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Denis Noble
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Kenneth M. Spyer ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Diethelm W. Richter ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Murray Esler
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John B. West
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Jere Mitchell ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Geoffrey Burnstock
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Peter Sleight
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Tilli Tansey
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Bert Sakmann
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Tom Kirkwood
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Josephine Arendt ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Kevin Fong
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Semir Zeki

Annual Public Lecture

Intended to raise awareness and understanding of physiology among the general public and schools.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: Julian F. R. Paton ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David Attwell
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Peter Weissberg
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Stephen O'Rahilly
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Nancy J. Rothwell
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Russell Foster – How your body clock makes you tick^[12]
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Gareth Leng ({{{2}}}) – The loving brain^[13]
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Russell Foster
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Robert Winston
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Sophie Scott – The science of laughter
Script error: No such module "Date time".: John F. Cryan (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Daniel Martin – From mountains to the bedside: Lessons learnt from Everest
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Lora Heisler ({{{2}}})

Sharpey-Schafer Lecture and Prize

Named after Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. Awarded alternating between established and early-career physiologists.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: Torsten Wiesel
Script error: No such module "Date time".: David Attwell
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Bertil Hille
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Graham Collingridge
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Judah Folkman
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Julian F. R. Paton ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Erwin Neher
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Neville H. McClenaghan ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Walter Boron
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Walter Marcotti ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: William A. Catterall
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Emma Hart (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Roger Smith

Wellcome Prize Lecture

Awarded to young physiologists (under 40). Now discontinued.^[10]

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Script error: No such module "Date time".: David A. Eisner
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Andrew J. King (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Hugh R. Matthews ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Wolf Reik
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Stewart O. Sage ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Leon Lagnado ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Daniela Riccardi ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Anant B. Parekh ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Alexander V. Gourine ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Helen Kennedy (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Andrew W. Trafford ({{{2}}})

GSK Prize Lecture

Awarded to early-career physiologists. Now discontinued.^[10]

Script error: No such module "Date time".: Josef Kittler (physiologist) ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Not awarded
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Holly Shiels ({{{2}}})
Script error: No such module "Date time".: Mala M. Shah ({{{2}}})

References

↑ The History of The National Anti-Vivisection Society (The National Anti-Vivisection Society)
↑ Sharpey-Schafer, E. History of the Physiological Society during its first Fifty Years 1876–1927, Oxford University Press, London, 1927
↑ Burgess, Helen (Spring 2015). "100 years of women members: The Society's centenary of women's admission". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/100-years-of-women-members-the-societys-centenary-of-womens-admission/.
↑ "The Physiological Society". Wellcome Library. http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2002868__SThe%20Physiological%20Society__Orightresult__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt.
↑ "Physiological Reports". Wiley. https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2051817X.
↑ 22 August 2012. "Hodgkin-Huxley House: Name the meeting rooms". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/news_article/hodgkin-huxley-house-name-the-meeting-rooms/.
↑ "Past Officers of the Physiological Society". The Physiological Society. 2019. https://static.physoc.org/app/uploads/2019/04/22192800/Past-Officers.pdf.
↑ "David Paterson". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/team/david-paterson/.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 "Prize lectures". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/supporting-you/prize-lectures/.
↑ ^10.00 ^10.01 ^10.02 ^10.03 ^10.04 ^10.05 ^10.06 ^10.07 ^10.08 ^10.09 ^10.10 ^10.11 ^10.12 "Lectures and Prizes". The Physiological Society. 2020. https://www.physoc.org/lectures-and-prizes-to-2020/.
↑ Barrett, Kim E. (2017-01-15). "Endogenous and exogenous control of gastrointestinal epithelial function: building on the legacy of Bayliss and Starling". The Journal of Physiology 595 (2): 423–432. doi:10.1113/JP272227. ISSN 1469-7793. PMID 27284010.
↑ How your body clock makes you tick on YouTube
↑ The loving brain on YouTube

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[1] The History of The National Anti-Vivisection Society (The National Anti-Vivisection Society)

[2] Sharpey-Schafer, E. History of the Physiological Society during its first Fifty Years 1876–1927, Oxford University Press, London, 1927

[3] Burgess, Helen (Spring 2015). "100 years of women members: The Society's centenary of women's admission". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/100-years-of-women-members-the-societys-centenary-of-womens-admission/.

[4] "The Physiological Society". Wellcome Library. http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2002868__SThe%20Physiological%20Society__Orightresult__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt.

[5] "Physiological Reports". Wiley. https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2051817X.

[6] 22 August 2012. "Hodgkin-Huxley House: Name the meeting rooms". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/news_article/hodgkin-huxley-house-name-the-meeting-rooms/.

[PastOfficers-7] "Past Officers of the Physiological Society". The Physiological Society. 2019. https://static.physoc.org/app/uploads/2019/04/22192800/Past-Officers.pdf.

[DavidPaterson-8] "David Paterson". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/team/david-paterson/.

[PrizeLectures-9] 9.0 ^9.1 "Prize lectures". The Physiological Society. https://www.physoc.org/supporting-you/prize-lectures/.

[L+P-10] 10.00 ^10.01 ^10.02 ^10.03 ^10.04 ^10.05 ^10.06 ^10.07 ^10.08 ^10.09 ^10.10 ^10.11 ^10.12 "Lectures and Prizes". The Physiological Society. 2020. https://www.physoc.org/lectures-and-prizes-to-2020/.

[11] Barrett, Kim E. (2017-01-15). "Endogenous and exogenous control of gastrointestinal epithelial function: building on the legacy of Bayliss and Starling". The Journal of Physiology 595 (2): 423–432. doi:10.1113/JP272227. ISSN 1469-7793. PMID 27284010.

[12] How your body clock makes you tick on YouTube

[13] The loving brain on YouTube

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