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The Physiological Society and The Scandinavian Physiological Society are delighted to be hosting a joint conference in July 2024, Physiology in Focus 2024.

The scientific programme promises a selection of the best and most exciting in current physiological research, including inspirational plenary and keynote lectures. There will be three days of the latest exciting physiology including Special Interest Group meetings, symposia, oral communications, and posters.

“The Scandinavian Physiological Society is very excited about collaborating with The Physiological Society on Physiology in Focus 2024. It makes a lot of sense for next-door neighbours to join annual meetings, particularly because our collaboration has worked really well in the past. It has actually been great fun and brought a lot of creativity into the game of arranging scientific meetings. With both societies emphasising the bottom-up process, we will be anxiously waiting for your great input to speakers and symposia. It is our task to bring you the benefits of a broad meeting with the networking and community feel of a focus meeting. I really look forward to the work.’’

Professor Helle Prætorius Øhrwald (Aarhus University, Denmark), President of the Scandinavian Physiological Society

“I’m delighted that we are to have a joint meeting with the Scandinavian Physiological Society. I have benefited greatly from collaborations with Scandinavian labs, and scientists from all the Scandinavian countries have made crucial contributions to our understanding of diverse physiological mechanisms.

These include (with Nobel Prize dates in brackets) the Faroese-Icelander Niels Finsen’s work on phototherapy for lupus (1903), the Dane August Krogh’s proposal of capillary-level regulation of blood flow (1920), the Finn Ragnar Granit’s work on the eye (1967), the Swede Torsten Wiesel’s contribution to understanding how the brain processes visual information (1981), and the Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser’s work on spatial representation within the brain (2014).

I’m sure this outstanding tradition will be much in evidence at our joint meeting, and I look forward to the friendly and exciting exchange of information and ideas that will occur there.”

Professor David Attwell (University College London, UK), President of The Physiological Society.

The call for symposia for the conference is open now until 30 June 2023.