https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.132.41

The Society is also delighted to recognise the experience, commitment and contributions of distinguished members by appointing our 2023 Fellow Members.

Professor Omar Mahroo

MA MB BChir PhD FRCOphth FHEA FRSB

Omar Mahroo is a clinician scientist investigating retinal physiology and pathophysiology. He is a consultant ophthalmologist and retinal specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital in London. He is also Professor of Retinal Neuroscience at University College London. In 2011, he was appointed Academic Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London, where he set up an ERG research laboratory at St Thomas’ Hospital to investigate retinal responses in the TwinsUK cohort and retinal mechanisms driving myopia. He has received awards for teaching excellence and for patient and public engagement from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and the Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre. He has co-authored over 130 publications (including in the Journal of Physiology, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Ophthalmology, Brain and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

Professor Bamidele Victor Owoyele

PhD FNSN FNISEB

Bamidele Owoyele obtained his BSc and PhD in Physiology at the University of Ilorin, while his Master’s was from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a tenured professor at the Department of Physiology, University of Ilorin, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1999. He has been a member of The Physiological Society since January 2010 and is a Society Representative at the University of Ilorin. He is a Board member of many scientific journals and is an external examiner to many universities within and outside Nigeria. His research focus is on pain and neuroinflammatory diseases. He has supervised many PhD theses, Master’s dissertations, and undergraduate projects. He is currently the Dean of the Postgraduate School at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Professor Holly Alice Shiels

PhD

Holly Alice Shiels is a Professor of Integrative Physiology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research explores cardiac function in response to environmental change and how this impacts organismal metabolism, locomotion, and behaviour to determine the intersection of the cardiovascular system and the environment on fitness. Her lab works across species, across life stages and biological models, embracing comparative approaches to provide deeper understanding of the mechanisms that adjust or collapse at environmental extremes. Holly has been a member of The Physiological Society since arriving in the UK as an NSERC-Canada Fellow in 2002. She has taught Animal Physiology at the University of Manchester since 2005 and is currently working with colleagues on the next edition of the Oxford University Press textbook “Animal Physiology”.

Professor Changhao Wu

MB MD PhD

Changhao Wu is a Professor in Cell Physiology at the University of Surrey. He studied medicine as his first degree followed by a Master’s degree in medicine and a PhD in physiology/pharmacology. He has worked in Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences (China), Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School, University College London, and University of Surrey. As a principal Investigator, he has carried out innovative research and made significant original contributions with a particular focus on the bladder tissues, smooth muscle, epithelial and interstitial cells. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications in a physiology or life science journals including The Journal of Physiology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, European Journal of Epidemiology, European Journal of Urology, and Frontiers in Immunology.

The Fellowship appointments will be celebrated at the 2023 Member Forum, which will be held at The Royal Society on 1 December 2023.