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The Physiological Society
Formation	1876
Purpose	Support the advancement of physiology
Headquarters	London, England
Membership	2400 Members
President	David Attwell
Chief Executive	Dariel Burdass
President-Elect	Annette Dolphin
Website	www.physoc.org

The Physiological Society, founded in 1876, is an international learned society for physiologists with headquarters in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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 is the oldest and largest network of physiologists in Europe, consisting of members from over 60 countries. The Society’s membership has included at least 61 Nobel laureates, in Physiology or Medicine (n=55), Chemistry (n=5) or Peace (n=1). 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.

In August 2024 The Society announced its first new wholly owned journals in over 100 years, with the launch of The Journal of Precision Medicine: Health and Disease and The Journal of Nutritional Physiology.

The society is based at Hodgkin Huxley House in Farringdon, London, named after 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]

2001 (2001) – 2003 (2003): Colin Blakemore
2003 (2003) – 2006 (2006): Richard A. North
2006 (2006) – 2008 (2008): Ole Holger Petersen
2008 (2008) – 2010 (2010): Clive H. Orchard [Wikidata]
2010 (2010) – 2012 (2012): Kenneth M. Spyer [Wikidata]
2012 (2012) – 2014 (2014): Jonathan Ashmore
2014 (2014) – 2016 (2016): Richard Vaughan-Jones [Wikidata]
2016 (2016) – 2018 (2018): David A. Eisner
2018 (2018) – 2020 (2020): Bridget Lumb [Wikidata]
2020 (2020) – 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

2001 (2001): Nicholas B. Standen [Wikidata]
2002 (2002): David I. Cook [Wikidata]
2003 (2003): Jonathan F. Ashmore
2004 (2004): David J. Beech [Wikidata]
2005 (2005): Simon C. Gandevia [Wikidata]
2006 (2006): Mark J. Dunne [Wikidata]
2007 (2007): David Allen [Wikidata]
2010 (2010): David Attwell
2011 (2011): Giovanni E. Mann [Wikidata]
2013 (2013): Richard Vaughan-Jones [Wikidata]
2014 (2014): Kenneth M. Spyer [Wikidata]

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]

1963 (1963): Charles Lovatt Evans
1966 (1966): Ivan De Burgh Daly
1969 (1969): Archibald Hill
1973 (1973): Roderic Alfred Gregory
1976 (1976): Henry Barcroft
1979 (1979): David Whitteridge
1982 (1982): J R Pappenheimer
1985 (1985): Bernard Katz
1988 (1988): John Zachary Young
1991 (1991): James Black
1994 (1994): John Vane
1997 (1997): David A. Brown [Wikidata]
2000 (2000): Salvador Moncada
2004 (2004): Gerhard Giebisch
2006 (2006): Roderick Flower
2009 (2009): Gero Miesenböck
2011 (2011): Jerome A. Dempsey [Wikidata]
2013 (2013): Graham J. Dockray
2014 (2014): Steven Bloom [Wikidata]
2015 (2015): Kim Barrett – Endogenous and exogenous control of gastrointestinal epithelial function: building on the legacy of Bayliss and Starling^[11]
2016 (2016): Lisa Heather [Wikidata] - Cardiac metabolism in disease: All fuels are equal, but some fuels are more equal than others.
2017 (2017): Helen E. Raybould [Wikidata]
2018 (2018): Patrick Lewis [Wikidata] – Leucine rich repeat kinase 2: From pathology to physiology and back again
2020 (2020): 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]

2002 (2002): Louise Robson [Wikidata]
2006 (2006): Matthew Bailey [Wikidata]
2004 (2004): Donald T. Ward [Wikidata]
2008 (2008): Gavin Stewart [Wikidata]

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]

1975 (1975): G S Brindley [Wikidata] and R J Linden [Wikidata]
1976 (1976): P F Baker [Wikidata] and Patrick A. Merton [Wikidata]
1977 (1977): Eric Neil [Wikidata]
1983 (1983): John Nicholls
1984 (1984): John S. Gillespie [Wikidata]
1985 (1985): Michael de Burgh Daly [Wikidata]
1986 (1986): Graham J. Dockray
1987 (1987): Semir Zeki
1988 (1988): Anthony Angel [Wikidata]
1989 (1989): Colin Blakemore
1990 (1990): Nicholas B. Standen [Wikidata]
1991 (1991): Roger N. Lemon [Wikidata]
1992 (1992): Jonathan F. Ashmore
1993 (1993): Annette Dolphin
1994 (1994): Richard Vaughan-Jones [Wikidata]
1995 (1995): Stuart Cull-Candy
1996 (1996): Frances M. Ashcroft
1997 (1997): Ian D. Forsythe [Wikidata]
1998 (1998): Peter Lipp [Wikidata]
1999 (1999): David J. Paterson
2000 (2000): Stephen Brendan McMahon
2001 (2001): Chris Peers [Wikidata]
2002 (2002): Mark J. Dunne [Wikidata]
2004 (2004): Michael J. Rennie [Wikidata]
2005 (2005): Godfrey L. Smith [Wikidata]
2006 (2006): C. A. Richard Boyd [Wikidata]
2007 (2007): Nina Balthasa [Wikidata]
2009 (2009): J Graham McGeown [Wikidata]
2010 (2010): Lucilla Poston
2011 (2011): James Deuchars [Wikidata]
2012 (2012): Anant Parekh
2013 (2013): David A. Eisner
2014 (2014): Mike Tipton
2015 (2015): Molly Stevens
2016 (2016): Rachel Tribe
2017 (2017): Andrew Parker [Wikidata]
2018 (2018): Pamela Shaw

G W Harris Prize Lecture

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

1987 (1987): George Fink [Wikidata]
1990 (1990): Ernest M. Wright
1993 (1993): Graham J. Dockray
1996 (1996): Iain C. A. F. Robinson [Wikidata]

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]

2000 (2000): Roderick MacKinnon
2002 (2002): Bert Sakmann
2004 (2004): Denis Noble
2006 (2006): Thomas J. Jentsch [Wikidata]
2008 (2008): Eric Kandel
2010 (2010): Roger Nicoll
2012 (2012): Cori Bargmann
2013 (2013): Erin M. Schuman
2015 (2015): Karin Sipido [Wikidata] – Calcium microdomains in cardiac myocytes
2017 (2017): Jack L. Feldman
2019 (2019): Stephen Traynelis [Wikidata]

Joan Mott Prize Lecture

Named for Joan Mott.^[10]

Michael de Burgh Daly Prize Lecture

Named for Michael de Burgh Daly [Wikidata].

2002 (2002): Janice M. Marshall [Wikidata]
2005 (2005): James F X Jones [Wikidata]
2007 (2007): Michael J. Joyner
2009 (2009): Colin A. Nurse [Wikidata]
2011 (2011): Tobias Wang [Wikidata]
2013 (2013): Peter Carmeliet
2016 (2016): Nanduri R. Prabhakar [Wikidata]
2018 (2018): Katrin Schröder [Wikidata]
2020 (2020): F Gribble

Otto Hutter Teaching Prize

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

2010 (2010): Mary Cotter [Wikidata]
2011 (2011): Neil Morris [Wikidata]
2012 (2012): Eugene Lloyd [Wikidata]
2014 (2014): Dave Lewis [Wikidata]
2015 (2015): Judy Harris [Wikidata] – Engaging students and valuing teachers
2016 (2016): Prem Kumar [Wikidata]
2017 (2017): Louise Robson [Wikidata]
2018 (2018): Julia Choate
2019 (2019): 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.

2019 (2019): James Pawelczyk
2020 (2020): Jeffrey M. Friedman
2021 (2021): Jessica U. Meir
2022 (2022): 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]

2016 (2016): Alicia D’Souza [Wikidata] – Getting excited about pacemaking in the athletic heart: interplay of transcription factors and microRNAs in pacemaker electrophysiology.
2017 (2017): Nathalie L Rochefort [Wikidata] – Decoding the visual cortex
2018 (2018): Bethan Phillips – Physiological adaptations to traditional and novel exercise interventions as a function of age
2019 (2019): Marie Holt [Wikidata]

The Paton Lecture

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

1994 (1994): John Wendell Severinghaus [Wikidata]
1995 (1995): Hans Ussing
1996 (1996): Patrick D. Wall
1997 (1997): Vernon B. Mountcastle
1998 (1998): Daniel P. Todes [Wikidata]
2005 (2005): John H. Coote
2007 (2007): Denis Noble
2008 (2008): Kenneth M. Spyer [Wikidata]
2009 (2009): Diethelm W. Richter [Wikidata]
2010 (2010): Murray Esler
2011 (2011): John B. West
2012 (2012): Jere Mitchell [Wikidata]
2013 (2013): Geoffrey Burnstock
2014 (2014): Peter Sleight
2015 (2015): Tilli Tansey
2016 (2016): Bert Sakmann
2017 (2017): Tom Kirkwood
2018 (2018): Josephine Arendt
2019 (2019): Kevin Fong
2020 (2020): Semir Zeki

Annual Public Lecture

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

2005 (2005): Julian F. R. Paton [Wikidata]
2006 (2006): David Attwell
2008 (2008): Peter Weissberg
2009 (2009): Stephen O'Rahilly
2010 (2010): Nancy J. Rothwell
2011 (2011): Russell Foster – How your body clock makes you tick^[12]
2012 (2012): Gareth Leng [Wikidata] – The loving brain^[13]
2013 (2013): Russell Foster
2014 (2014): Robert Winston
2015 (2015): Sophie Scott – The science of laughter
2016 (2016): John F. Cryan [Wikidata]
2018 (2018): Daniel Martin – From mountains to the bedside: Lessons learnt from Everest
2019 (2019): Lora Heisler [Wikidata]

Sharpey-Schafer Lecture and Prize

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

1983 (1983): Torsten Wiesel
1986 (1986): David Attwell
1989 (1989): Bertil Hille
1992 (1992): Graham Collingridge
1995 (1995): Judah Folkman
1998 (1998): Julian F. R. Paton [Wikidata]
2002 (2002): Erwin Neher
2005 (2005): Neville H. McClenaghan [Wikidata]
2008 (2008): Walter Boron
2011 (2011): Walter Marcotti [Wikidata]
2013 (2013): William A. Catterall
2016 (2016): Emma Hart [Wikidata]
2019 (2019): Roger Smith

Wellcome Prize Lecture

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

1986 (1986): Kevin A. C. Martin [Wikidata]
1988 (1988): David A. Eisner
1990 (1990): Andrew J. King [Wikidata]
1992 (1992): Hugh R. Matthews [Wikidata]
1994 (1994): Wolf Reik
1996 (1996): Stewart O. Sage [Wikidata]
1998 (1998): Leon Lagnado [Wikidata]
2000 (2000): Daniela Riccardi [Wikidata]
2002 (2002): Anant Parekh
2004 (2004): Alexander V. Gourine [Wikidata]
2006 (2006): Helen Kennedy [Wikidata]
2008 (2008): Andrew W. Trafford [Wikidata]

GSK Prize Lecture

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

2010 (2010): Josef Kittler [Wikidata]
2011 (2011): Not awarded
2012 (2012): Holly Shiels [Wikidata]
2013 (2013): Mala M. Shah [Wikidata]

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". Physiology News. The Physiological Society. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
^ "The Physiological Society". Catalogue. Wellcome Library. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
^ "Physiological Reports". Wiley Online Library. Wiley. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
^ 22 August 2012. "Hodgkin-Huxley House: Name the meeting rooms". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 9 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Past Officers of the Physiological Society" (PDF). The Physiological Society. 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
^ "David Paterson". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Prize lectures". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "Lectures and Prizes". The Physiological Society. 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
^ 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. PMC 5233669. PMID 27284010.
^ How your body clock makes you tick on YouTube
^ The loving brain on YouTube

External links

[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". Physiology News. The Physiological Society. Retrieved 2021-01-08.

[4] "The Physiological Society". Catalogue. Wellcome Library. Retrieved 10 February 2016.

[5] "Physiological Reports". Wiley Online Library. Wiley. Retrieved 8 January 2021.

[6] 22 August 2012. "Hodgkin-Huxley House: Name the meeting rooms". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 9 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[PastOfficers-7] "Past Officers of the Physiological Society" (PDF). The Physiological Society. 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2021.

[DavidPaterson-8] "David Paterson". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 8 January 2021.

[PrizeLectures-9] "Prize lectures". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 2020-12-24.

[L+P-10] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "Lectures and Prizes". The Physiological Society. 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-24.

[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. PMC 5233669. PMID 27284010.

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

[13] The loving brain on YouTube

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