The International Union of Photobiology is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1928 with the mission to stimulate scientific research and international collaboration in photobiological sciences.
and national photobiology groups and to individuals from countries with no photobiology organizations.
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Membership is open to international
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Finsen Medals
Are awarded to distinguished photobiologists for their outstanding contributions to the photosciences. These medals recognize scientists who have worked in the photosciences for a considerable number of years.
Edna Roe Lecturers
Are promising photoscientists who have achieved breakthroughs or similar accomplishments in the photosciences. Traditionally, most Edna Roe Lecturers have been women.
Finsen Lecturers
Are promising photoscientists who have achieved breakthroughs or similar accomplishments in the photosciences.
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Letter from the President

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Perth, Western Australia
10 February 2022

Dear IUPB Member Societies and our wider community of photobiology/photobiochemistry colleagues,

We are entering a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic but we still have much to be thankful for, not least the on-site joint congress with the European Society for Photobiology in August 2019. Just 3 months after the close of the joint congress the first reports of the virus were announced. Apart from the restrictions on physical movement, as often happens in critically challenging times, increased human connections and innovations have occurred – both personal and scientific, and with many online conferences, and family and colleague to colleague virtual meetings.

As you know the next big event for IUPB is its 18th International Congress on Photobiology to be held in Perth, Western Australia, 25th to 30th August 2024. Several of us in the IUPB Executive Committee and the emerging congress organisational committees have been discussing some interesting ways in which to bring scientists together in the years between the IUPB congresses as well as to be a part of making each congress an outstanding success. I would like to share some of these ideas with you and to ask for your feedback.

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Upcoming and Recent Events

20th Congress of the
European Society for Photobiology
August 27 - 31, 2023 Lyon, France

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Upcoming and Recent Events

6th ESP Photobiology School
August 21-27, 2022
Brixen (IT)

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IUPB Events

IUPB awards 2024

The awards are to be presented at the 18th International Congress on Photobiology to be held in Perth, Western Australia, 25-30 August, 2024.

Finsen Medalists

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Kristian Berg

Oslo University Hospital, Norway

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Yoshitaka Fukada

University of Tokyo, Japan

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Jean Krutmann

IUF, Düsseldorf, Germany


Edna Roe Lecturer

 

Finsen Lecturer

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Angela Falciatore

CNRS, France

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Keiichi Inoue

University of Tokyo, Japan

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IUPB Events

ICP-MEPSA World Congress 2024

Congress website: https://www.icpworldcongress.com/

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IUPB Events

Obituary for Herbert Hoenigsmann

The International Union of Photobiology mourns the death of Herbert Hoenigsmann, its long term executive board member (Treasurer 1996-2000, President 2000-2004, Secretary 2008, and Secretary-Treasurer 2009-2014), who passed away unexpectedly on the morning of August 21, 2023, at the age of 80.

In 1996, he organised and hosted the memorable 12th International Congress on Photobiology in Vienna and in 2014 he received the Finsen Medal for Fundamental Contributions to Photomedicine. He had a decisive influence on the field and shaped our Society.

We will miss him and share the sorrow with his family, friends and colleagues.

A more detailed obituary can be found at Springer Link.


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