The Society notes with regret the death on April 6 at the age of 93 of Honorary Member Professor Gerhard Giebisch. Graduating from the University of Vienna in 1951, he emigrated to the US the following year. After taking a series of appointments of increasing rank he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Yale School of Medicine  in 1968, from where he and his numerous associates have had considerable influence in nephrology and other fields. Gerhard is known for his defining research on how the kidney metabolizes potassium and sodium by micropuncture studies. He also, together with Silvio Wiedmann, carried out some of the earliest studies on mammalian cardiac currents. He joined the Society in 1976, becoming an Honorary Member in 1999. Gerhard Giebisch was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1984. Read his obituary in Physiology News here.