IUPS nominates its next President
It was announced today that Professor Denis Noble has been elected President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), from 2009-2013.
Professor Denis Noble is from the University of Oxford contingent of the VPH NoE and is also Prinicipal Investigator of the PreDICT FP7 VPH Initiative project. This is a reflection of his strong belief that the pendulum of scientific fashion is swinging back towards the integrative physiological sciences, and that we [within the physiome community] need to ensure effective responses to this challenge, for the benefit of our own science and for that of the many other disciplines (many from the physical as well as the biological sciences) that are involved.
As someone who has always straddled the worlds of experimental physiology, mathematics and computing, as well as the philosophical foundations of biological science, the Nominating Committee felt that Denis Noble has unrivalled experience to chart IUPS through the next four years. The complete slate of Officers and Council members proposed for election at the General Assembly in Kyoto next year will be available in the December 2009 issue of the journal PHYSIOLOGY, which is published jointly by IUPS and the American Physiological Society.