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EDITORIAL
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Physiology.
Approximately one and a half years ago, The American Physiological Society (APS) and The International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) invited me to become the editor of News in Physiological Sciences. I accepted the challenge with enthusiasm because the APS, the IUPS, and I concurred both in an assessment and in a vision. The assessment was that the discipline of physiology lacked the sort of focal publication—part news, part commentary, and part short, scholarly reviews—that our colleagues have long enjoyed in such disciplines as cell biology, genetics, immunobiology, molecular biology, and neuroscience. The vision was to fill the void by a bold transformation of News in Physiological Sciences, which was scheduled to undergo a cyclic change in editors.
The birth of News in Physiological Sciences followed several years of independent and cooperative discussions by the APS and IUPS. The first issue appeared in 1986 under the joint auspices of the APS and IUPS, with the APS serving as managing publisher. The mission was to distill recent physiological advances and present them in a short-review format that was optimized to update teachers of physiology. For more than 18 years—under the leadership, first, of Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, then John Shepherd, and, most recently, Stanley Schultz—News in Physiological Sciences has achieved that mission admirably. This mission of teaching and education will now pass to another APS journal, Advances in Physiology Education. The transformed News in Physiological Sciences will instead focus on recognizing, reviewing, and critically discussing the most exciting science that we broadly define as "physiology." For the sake of continuity, the transformed journal will follow the same progression of volume numbers as its predecessor. However, recognizing the extent of the transformation, we gave the journal a new name—Physiology.
My first step as editor was to recruit an editorial board of eminent physiologists, including two dynamic colleagues to serve as associate editors—Michael Caplan and Ulrich Pohl—and Gerhard Giebisch to serve as special advisor. My second task, together with Margaret Reich at the APS Publications Office, was to identify an outstanding art studio—J/B Woolsey Associates—to create a fresh design for the journal and to produce all of the artwork for future articles. Charleen Bertolini also joined us as editorial co-ordinator.
The editorial board will meet annually to discuss exciting potential topics and recognized authorities to serve as authors. At its first meeting, the board also discussed the new format of Physiology. In addition to incisive, brief reviews, our new format will include some or all of the following in each issue:
The publication of this inaugural issue of Physiology is an exciting event in the history of physiological publications, and I am very pleased to be part of the venture. I am grateful to those who have helped make this first issue possible. The vision of Physiology had its birth both in the APS Publications Committee, chaired by Dale Benos, and the APS Council, under the leadership of former president Barbara Horwitz, Past-President John Williams, and President D. Neil Granger. The enthusiastic support of Martin Frank, Executive Director of the APS, has been extremely valuable throughout the transformation. The IUPS Council (Allen Cowley, President) approved the journal’s transformation to Physiology, as did the APS/IUPS Joint Managing Board—Dale Benos (Chair), Akimichi Kaneko, Ewa Szczepanska-Sadowska, and Jimmy Neill. At the APS Publications office, Margaret Reich (Publications Manager), Jessica Darago (Journal Copy Editor), and Eric Pesanelli (Art Director) carefully nurtured Physiology through an 18-month incubation period. J/B Woolsey Associates created the journal design and artwork. The editorial board provided invaluable ideas and advice. Michael Caplan, Ulrich Pohl, and Gerhard Giebisch provided essential leadership. Many individuals took time from their busy schedules to nominate papers for Highlights from the Literature, which Christopher Verrico then created. A series of outstanding authors, who had never seen a copy of the journal, had the confidence in Physiology to create the science presented in this and the next several issues. And, finally, Charleen Bertolini deftly pulled it all together. We are pleased to welcome you to our new journal and hope that Physiology will soon become your physiology home.
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