International Union of Physiological Sciences

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

IUPS aims to facilitate initiatives that strengthen the discipline of physiology. IUPS is a scientific union member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), and is accredited with the World Health Organization (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 publishes the review journal Physiology. in 2020 it established the journal Physiome to publish and curate mathematical models of physiological systems, the Physiome.

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

Congresses
• 1889	Basel

• 1892	Liege

• 1895	Bern

• 1898	Cambridge

• 1901	Turin

• 1904	Brussels

• 1907	Heidelberg

• 1910	Vienna

• 1913	Groningen

• 1920	Paris

• 1923	Edinburgh

• 1926	Stockholm

• 1929	Boston

• 1932	Rome

• 1935	Leningrad-Moscow

• 1938	Zurich

• 1947	Oxford

• 1950	Copenhagen

• 1953	Montréal

• 1956	Brussels

• 1959	Buenos Aires

• 1962	Leiden

• 1965	Tokyo

• 1968	Washington, D.C.

• 1971	Munich

• 1974	New Delhi

• 1977	Paris

• 1980	Budapest

• 1983	Sydney

• 1986	Vancouver

• 1989	Helsinki

• 1993	Glasgow

• 1997	St. Petersburg

• 2001	Christchurch

• 2005	San Diego, CA

• 2009	Kyoto, Japan

• 2013	Birmingham, UK

• 2017	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 2022 Beijing, China (virtual meeting)

Previous Presidents

 * 1953-1956 Charles Best
 * 1956-1959 Corneille Heymans
 * 1959-1962 Bernardo Houssay
 * 1962-1968 G.L. Brown
 * 1968-1971 Wallace Fenn
 * 1971-1974 Yngve Zotterman
 * 1974-1980 Eric Neil
 * 1980-1986 Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
 * 1986-1993 Andrew Huxley
 * 1993-1997 Masao Ito
 * 1997-2001 Ewald Weibel
 * 2001-2005 Alan Cowley
 * 2005-2009 Akimichi Kaneko
 * 2009-2017 Denis Noble
 * 2017-2022 Julie Chan

Previous Secretaries General

 * 1953-1959 Maurice Visscher
 * 1959-1965 Wallace Fenn
 * 1965-1971 JW Duyff
 * 1971-1980 Robert Hunsperger
 * 1980-1986 J Scherrer
 * 1986-1993 Robert Nacquet
 * 1993-2001 Denis Noble
 * 2001-2009 Ole Petersen
 * 2010-2017 Walter Boron

Structure
There are eight Commissions
 * 1) Locomotion
 * 2) Circulation & Respiration
 * 3) Endocrine, Reproduction & Development
 * 4) Neurobiology
 * 5) Secretion & Absorption
 * 6) Molecular & Cellular
 * 7) Comparative: Evolution, Adaptation & Environment
 * 8) Genomics & Biodiversity