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Message for the FAOPS 2009-2010 activities from the President

I am pleased to report that the 36th International Congress of Physiological Sciences (IUPS 2009) was successfully held from this July 27 to August 1 in Kyoto. IUPS 2009 had 3997 attendees (2336 Japanese + 1659 others) including 388 researchers and 252 students from Asian and Oceanian countries other than Japan. Also, I am happy to tell you that 72 of 136 winners of the Travel Award were young physiologists from Asia and Oceania.

During previous three years, the FAOPS Council has tried to improve the FAOPS activities by principally making effort to increase the number of FAOPS Member Society, to improve the FAOPS website, and to strengthen the interaction with IUPS. As a result, first we approved Uzbekistan Physiological Society (UPS) for FAOPS Membership as a new Associate Member in August 2008. Second, for improvement of the FAOPS website, we elected Prof. Swee Hung Cheah as the Vice-Chair of the PR Committee. Prof. Cheah then frequently updated the website. Third, according to the request by Long Range Planning Committee of IUPS, we decided to postpone the 7th FAOPS Congress to 2011 in order to hold every FAOPS Congress just between the IUPS Congresses of a 4-year cycle.

Within remaining two years, this FAOPS Council will further make effort to increase the number of FAOPS Member Society. Also, to include Asian Physiologists from the countries that have no national physiological society into the FAOPS activities, a new system such as a Regional Member will be constituted.

Lastly, I do look forward to seeing you all at the FAOPS 2011 Congress (September 11-14, 2011) in Taipei.