The Society has heard with much sadness of the death of Honorary Member Professor Nicholas Standen FMedSci on 2 April after a long illness. Born in Oxford, Nick completed his PhD in 1974 in the Zoology Department at Cambridge with Rob Meech, describing the first calcium-activated K current recordings at a Society meeting the previous year. After postdoctoral work at Nottingham, he  was appointed in 1976 as a Lecturer at Leicester where he remained until he retired in 2010. His seminal work with Peter Stanfield identified the ATP-dependent K channel. A founder of a major ion channel group in the UK, Nick Standen was Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiology from 1991-94. He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001. Read his obituary in Physiology News here.