About the Portuguese Society of Physiology

In the late 1980s, Professors Mirabeau da Cruz (1914-1996) and Luís Silva Carvalho (1954-2008) of the Institute of Physiology in Lisbon launched the idea of establishing the Portuguese Society of Physiology. After several contacts involving other leaders of the Physiology of U Coimbra (Professor Fausto Pontes, 1934-2003) and U Porto (Professor Soares Fortunato, 1936-2019), the 1st National Congress of Physiology was held in December 1991 at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (Institute of Physiology). L Monteiro Rodrigues, then a PhD student of Professor Luís Silva Carvalho, was the secretary of this Congress.

More than twenty-five years later, the Portuguese Society of Physiology was formally registered in 2017.