Professor Ole H Petersen CBE MD FRCP(Hon) FMedSci FLSW MAE ML FRS #

• Present: Professor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales, UK (2010-)
• 2010 - 2015 Director (Head) of Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
• 1981 - 2009 George Holt Professor of Physiology and Head of the Physiology Department, University of Liverpool, UK
• 1975 - 1981 Symers Professor and Head of Physiology at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
• 1971 - 1972 sabbatical year in the Pharmacology Department, University of Cambridge
• 1969 - 1975 Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor in Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen
• 1969 Graduation in Medicine, University of Copenhagen

• Calcium signalling
• Cellular Ca2+ signaling processes
• Patho-physiological studies of pancreatitis
• The Exocrine Pancreas: physiology and pathology

• Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for ‘Services to Science’. Award received personally from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace on 7 May 2008

• Medical Research Council (UK): MRC Research Professor 1998 - 2017

• AL-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan, 12th April 2025

• Elected Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) (2000), Vice-President 2005-2006
• Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (ML) (2010), Leopoldina Lectures 2012, 2023
• Elected Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1988)
• Elected Member of Academia Europaea (Foundation Member) (1988), Vice-President 2015-2023, Gold Medal 2021
• Elected Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004)
• Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) (Foundation Member) (1998)
• Elected Fellow (Honorary) of the Royal College of Physicians London (FRCP) (2001)
• Elected Honorary Member of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (2017)
• Elected Honorary Member of The Physiological Society (UK & Ireland) (2015), President 2006-2008, Foreign Secretary 1992-1998, Annual Review Prize Lecture 1991
• Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) (2011), Vice-President 2014-2018
• Elected Honorary Member of the International Association of Pancreatology (2024), George E Palade Prize and Medal 2022
• Elected Fellow of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) and Inaugural Member of the IUPS Academy of Physiology (2021), Secretary General 2002-2010
• Elected Honorary Member of the European Pancreatic Club (2022), Lifetime Achievement Award 2010
• Elected Honorary Member of the Hungarian Physiological Society (2002)
• Elected Honorary Member of the Polish Physiological Society (1993), Czubalsky Medal 1993

PRIZES and AWARDS

• Novo Nordisk Foundation's Jacobaeus Prize and Lecture (3 November 1994, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters)
• The International Association of Pancreatology's (IAP) 2022 George E Palade Prize and Medal. Award Lecture delivered at the Joint IAP - JPS (Japan Pancreas Society) Conference, Kyoto, Japan, on 7th July 2022. Published in Pancreatology 23, 1-8, 2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1424390322008328?via%3Dihub
• Academia Europaea's 2020 Gold Medal Award. The Gold Medal Lecture was delivered at the Academy's Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 20th October 2021. Published in European Review 2022, doi: 10.1017/S1062798722000084
• The American Physiological Society's 2018 Walter B Cannon Memorial Award (APS top award). The Plenary Award Lecture was delivered at Experimental Biology (EB) in San Diego on 22nd April 2018. Published in Physiological Reviews 101: 1691-1744, 2021, doi: 10.1152/physrev.00003.2021
• J.E. Purkyně Honorary Medal for ‘Merit in the Biological Sciences’ from The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Prague, 14 July 2003).
• The Physiological Society's Annual Review Prize Lecturer (18 July 1991, University of Cambridge)(The Physiological Society's top award). Lecture published in Journal of Physiology 448, 1-51, 1992
• ISI (now Web of Science) Award of 'Citation Classic' (1993) for: Petersen and Maruyama, Calcium-activated potassium channels and their role in secretion. Nature 307, 693-696, 1984.
• The Polish Physiological Society's Czubalsky Medal (Torun, 13 September 1993)
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Pancreatic Club (Stockholm, 17 June 2010)
• The American Physiological Society’s Horace W Davenport Distinguished Lectureship. Award Lecture given at Experimental Biology (EB) 2013 in Boston, USA (23 April 2013)
• The 2012 Leopoldina Lecture (Public Lecture in German) on the eve of the festivities in connection with the formal opening of the new Residence for the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany, 23 May 2012
• The Keynote Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Calcium Signaling, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 10 July 2003
• The 13th Halliburton Lecture, King's College, University of London, 17th February 1987
• Morton I Grossman Memorial Lecture, Center for Ulcer Research & Education (CURE), University of California, Los Angeles, 18 October 1985
• Brinch's Prize Danish Technical University, Copenhagen 1975

OTHER HONOURS and NAMED LECTURES (selection)

• Plenary Lecture at International Symposium celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (formerly Institute of Enzymology), Hungarian Research Network, Budapest, Hungary, 31st May 2025
• Distinguished Honorary Professor at Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Inaugural Lecture, Amman, Jordan, 12th April 2025
• Plenary Lecture at Symposium celebrating 'The 50th Anniversary of George Emil Palade's Receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine', 9th December 2024, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Grigore T Popa, Iasi, Romania
• Celebrating Excellence Award Lectures, together with Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie, at 23rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Talented Students, National Academy of Scientists Education, University of Szeged, Hungary; Plenary Lecture on 7th December 2024, https:www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX3mYC-qZJ8
• Two Keynote Lectures at First Kolkata Pancreas Meeting 2023, Liver Foundation, West Bengal, 17th December 2023, Kolkata, India
• Celebrating Excellence Award Lectures, together with Nobel Laureates Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof, at 21st Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Talented Students, National Academy of Scientists Education, University of Szeged, 14th December 2023; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzc5eM7ZKvg
• The Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS) 2023 FEPS Lecture. Award Lecture delivered at Physiology in Focus 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia on 15th September 2023
• The 2023 Leopoldina Lecture. The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany, 7th March 2023
• The 'Sir Michael Berridge Memorial Lecture' at the FASEB conference on 'Calcium and Cell Function', Dublin, October 2021
• Opening Plenary Lecture at 20th Congress of the Ukrainian Physiological Society, Kyiv, Ukraine, 27th May 2019
• Award Lecture (Honorary Membership), 72nd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, Dresden, Germany, 14th September 2017
• Keynote Lecture, 49th Meeting of European Pancreatic Club, Budapest, Hungary, 1st July 2017
• Opening Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on 'Calcium Signalling' Lucca, Italy, 18th June 2017
• Jubilee Lecture, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS) at the 2016 FEPS Congress, Paris, France, 30th June 2016
• Invited Lecture ('World Leader' Award "for his studies in cellular Ca2+ signalling processes") at International Symposium on 'Latest Advances in Biomedicine & Interdisciplinary Sciences', Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas (Indicasat AIP), Panama City, Republic of Panama, February 2016
• Festschrifft for Ole Petersen CBE FRS (on the basis of International Bioscience Birthday Symposium held at the National Museum Cardiff 2013) published in Journal of Physiology 592, 259-312, 2014
• Thomas P Infusino Lecture at UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA, 2013
• Opening Plenary Lecture at the 2013 Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Physiology in Sao Paulo, 7 September 2013
• Keynote Lecture at the 37th International Congress of Physiological Sciences (IUPS2013), Birmingham, UK; http://www.voicesfromoxford.org/video/the-role-of-calcium-in-pancreatic-disease/397
• Appointed Honorary Professor at College of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, 2011
• Plenary Keynote Lecture at Annual Meeting of the Korean Physiological Society, Gagneung, South Korea, 30th October 2009.
• American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) State-of-the-Art Lecture at DDW (Digestive Diseases Week), Chicago, USA, 31st May 2009
• Festschrift for Ole Petersen CBE FRS (on the basis of the International Symposium held at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 2008 - on the occasion of OP's 65th birthday) published in Acta Physiologica 195, 1-196, 2009
• Opening Plenary Lecture at Joint Meeting of FEPS, the Physiological Society (UK) and the Slovak Physiological Society, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 2007
• Opening Plenary Lecture at XXXIV Congress of the Spanish Society of Physiological Sciences, Valladolid, Spain, July 2007
• The Plenary Keynote Lecture at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, Sendai, May 2005
• The 1st John Young Memorial Lecture at the Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands and Exocrine Secretion, Ventura, California, February 2005
• Plenary Lecture at International Workshop on Calcium Release and Cellular Calcium Signaling Domains, Marbella, Chile, 28 September – 2 October 2003
• Plenary State-of-the-Art Lecture at the American Gastroenterology Association’s Digestive Diseases Week, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2003
• Plenary Lecture at Annual Meeting of Chilean Physiological and Pharmacological Societies, La Serana, Chile, 2002
• Visiting Professor, Stellenbosch University, Medical Campus, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000
• Opening Plenary Lecture at Annual Meeting of Belgian Physiologists and Pharmacologists, Leuven, Belgium, 2000
• Plenary Lecture at Joint Meeting between Chilean Physiological Society and The Physiological Society UK, Pucon, Chile, 13 – 17 November 1999
• Opening Plenary Lecture at 26th Annual Congress of the Physiological Society of Southern Africa, Rustenburg, South Africa, 1998
• Dame Honor B Fell Memorial Lecture, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, 1996
• Swedish Medical Research Council Visiting Lectureship (Universities of Umeå, Uppsala and Göteborg), 1994
• Australian Physiological Society Visiting Lecturer (University of Sydney, Monash University Melbourne), 1974

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

• Chair, Hungarian Research Council's Physiology - Neuroscience Panel, 2024-2026; *Vice-President of Academia Europaea, 2015-2023; *EiC of Amer Physiol Soc's Function, 2019-2024; *Executive Editor, J Physiol, 2016-2019; *Executive Editor, Pflugers Archiv - Eur J Physiol, 1992-2020; *Chair, REF2014 Biol Sci Panel; *European EiC of Amer Physiol Soc's Physiol Rev, 2003-2011; *Secretary General of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) 2002-2010; *Chair, European Research Council's (ERC) Physiology, Pathophysiology & Endocrinology Starting Grant Panel, Funding Rounds 2009, 2010 & 2011; *Deputy Chair, ERC Physiology, Pathophysiology & Endocrinology Consolidator Panel, Funding Round 2013; *Co-Chair of the International Scientific Programme Committee (ISPC) for the 36th International Congress of Physiological Sciences Kyoto, Japan July/August 2009; *President of the Physiological Society (UK & Ireland), 2006-2008; *Vice-President of the Royal Society, 2005-2006; *President of the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS), 2001-2003. *President of the European Pancreatic Club (EPC) 2002-2003; *Member of University of Oxford’s Recognition of Distinction Committee 2001-2005; *Member of UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Physiological Medicine and Infections Board 2000-2004, MRC Cross Board Group 2000-2004, MRC Physiological Systems Board 1984-1988, MRC Grants Committee A (Cell Board) 1979-1983; *Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board for the FONDAP Center of Excellence for Molecular studies of the Cell (CEMC) at The University of Chile, Santiago de Chile 2004- ; *Member of International Advisory Board for Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBM), University of Chile, Santiago de Chile 1998-2004; *Member of ‘Kuratorium’ and ‘Fachausschuss’ (Scientific Advisory Board), Max Planck Institute for Biophysics Frankfurt, Germany 1980-1995, *Member of ‘Beirat’ (International Scientific Advisory Board), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany 1995-2007

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