The Society has heard with regret of the death on 4 May of Member Professor Alan Williams. Joining the Cardiothoracic Institute, London after completing his PhD at Lancaster University, Alan obtained a British Heart Foundation (BHF) fellowship at Cornell in 1980 where meeting Chris Miller triggered a lifelong collaboration and a unique expertise in high resolution bilayer recording. His research on the intracellular calcium release channel, the ryanodine receptor RyR2, became of critical importance for cardiac physiology. Head of the Department for Cardiac Medicine, at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, from 2002, he moved to a BHF chair at Cardiff University in 2007. A Society Member from 1988, Alan Williams retired in 2019 after a final move to Swansea in 2017.