An introduction to the bioscience birthday symposium held in honour of Ole Petersen CBE, FRS

摘要

This issue contains five review articles summarizing talks that were presented at a 2-day Physiology and Pathophysiology symposium held in the elegant setting of the National Museum in Cardiff to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Ole Petersen, Chair of the Cardiff School of Biosciences. Ole trained in medicine in Copenhagen and, whilst a student, became fascinated by the physiology of the exocrine glands, leading him to spend much of his spare time investigating ion transport mechanisms in the salivary glands together with a fellow medical student (J. H. Poulsen). After qualifying in medicine and a brief period as a faculty member in the medical school in Copenhagen, Ole took up the Symers Professorship of Physiology at Dundee University followed by the George Holt Chair in Physiology at Liverpool. Ole remained in Liverpool for almost 30 years before succeeding Nobel Laureate Sir Martin Evans as head of the Cardiff School.