https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.127.42

The Physiological Society’s Board of Trustees is delighted to announce the appointment of six new Honorary Fellows. Their appointment will be celebrated at the 2022 Member Forum, which will be held at The Royal Society on 2 December 2022. Honorary Fellowship is the highest honour that The Physiological Society presents to an individual and it recognises persons of distinction in science who have contributed to the advancement of physiology.

Professor Kim E. Barrett, PhD

Kim Barrett is Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology and Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine at UC Davis (USA), where she is leading initiatives to bolster both basic and clinical research activities. She is the recipient of numerous awards and has been highly active in scholarly publishing. Recently she completed a six-year term as Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Physiology in 2022.

Professor David Julius, PhD

David Julius is currently the Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine and Professor and Chair in the Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. A major focus of David’s work is to elucidate molecular mechanisms of somatosensation and pain, and sensory adaptation. Among his many awards is the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Ardem Patapoutian).

Professor Gary Richard Lewin, PhD

Gary Lewin is Professor of Molecular Physiology of Somatic Sensation at the Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (Berlin, Germany). His work has led to the development of new therapies to treat sensory disorders. He was an ERC panel member for 10 years, elected member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2008., and in 2019 was honoured with Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine.

Professor Diane Lipscombe, PhD

Diane Lipscombe is Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director of the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Thomas J Watson Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University (Rhode Island USA). She studies ion channel expression, modulation, and function with interest in the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Professor Ardem Patapoutian, PhD

Ardem Patapoutian is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Neurobiology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His laboratory identified the molecules that sense temperature and pressure involved in touch, pain, and regulating blood pressure. He is a co-recipient of the 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, the 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (all shared with David Julius).

Professor Irene Tracey, CBE FMedSci

Irene Tracey is Warden of Merton College, University of Oxford, UK and Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience. She will be the next Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford, taking office in January 2023. She was a founding member of the world renowned Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain. Her multidisciplinary research team has contributed to the understanding of pain perception and pain relief within the human central nervous system using advanced neuroimaging.