The Society regrets to announce the deaths of two eminent Members, Alison Douglas and Anne Warner.
Alison worked in the School of Biomedical Sciences in Edinburgh, where she played an important role in teaching and administration, including as Organiser of the Honours Programme in Physiology (2001-2004) and as Chair of the Honours Exam Board in Medical Biology (2007-2011). In 2011 she was elected Chair of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. She was elected a Member in 1995.
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Anne Warner FRS, who has died aged 71, applied electrophysiological methods to the study of the development of the embryo. She was responsible for initiating the Microelectrode Techniques workshop at the MBA, Plymouth and more recently directed CoMPLEX, the systems biology centre at UCL.
She was elected a Member in 1968 and served on the Committee (1975 to 1979) and on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Physiology (1980-1987).
Her funeral will take place on Friday 1 June 2012 at 1.15 pm, at Islington Crematorium, 278 High Road, East Finchley, London N2 9AG.