https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.132.40

The Physiological Society’s Board of Trustees is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Honorary Fellows and Fellow Members.

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 David Attwell, President of The Society said:
This year’s Honorary Fellows and Fellows represent the true breadth and diversity of the discipline. It is a pleasure to recognise their unique achievements and contributions to the physiological sciences.

Professor Rose Anne Kenny

MD FRCP FRCPI FRCPEdin FESC FTCD FFPHMI (Hon) MRIA D.Sc. h.c

Rose Anne Kenny is Regius Professor of Physic (Medicine) and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is the founding Principal Investigator of The Irish LongituDinal study on Ageing (TILDA) and Director of the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St James’s Hospital, where she is also director of a large national falls and syncope and autonomic function laboratory.
She has received a number of international awards and has published widely, authoring over 600 publications including her recently published book “Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life”, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022.

Professor Philip Nolan

MB BCh BAO BSc PhD MRIA

Philip Nolan was appointed Director General of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Ireland’s primary funder of science and engineering research, in January 2022, and in May 2023, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, appointed Philip the CEO-designate of Research Ireland, the new research funding agency to be formed by the amalgamation of SFI and the Irish Research Council. He is a strong advocate for the importance and value of fundamental curiosity-driven research across all disciplines as the foundation of a thriving research and innovation ecosystem. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and an Honorary Fellow of the Physiological Society.

Professor David Paterson

DPhil DSc

David Paterson is Professor of Physiology and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Since 2016 he has been Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics at Oxford (QS Ranked 1st) and is immediate Past President of The Physiological Society of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. He is a graduate of the University of Otago (NZ), University of Western Australia and New College, University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil on chemoreception. Rising through the ranks at Oxford from a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church then Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College, he became Professor of Physiology over 20 years ago. As a cardiac neurobiologist, he is best known for his work linking the nervous system to heart rhythm, which was featured in the 2012 BBC Four documentary Heart v Mind: What Makes Us Human?