Regius Professorship of Physiology is a

Regius Chair A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine, and f ...

at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

. It was originally called the Regius Chair of the Institutes of Medicine.

List of Regius Professors of Physiology

* 1877 to 1886: William Stirling * 1886 to 1928:

John Alexander MacWilliam John Alexander MacWilliam (31 July 1857 – 13 January 1937), a physiologist at the University of Aberdeen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a pioneer in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. He spent many years studyi ...

* 1928 to 1935: John Macleod * Cecil Kidd * 1977 to 1983: Derek Ogston * 2002 to 2022:

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* 2024 to present:

Mirela Delibegovic Mirela Delibegovic, is a Bosnian-British pharmacologist/biochemist who is Dean for Industrial Engagement in Research & Knowledge Transfer and Director of Aberdeen Cardiovascular and Diabetes Centre. She is also Regius Professor of Physiology at ...

References

{{reflist Physiology Aberdeen Professorships at the University of Aberdeen