After recent very successful IUPS Congresses in San Diego (U.S., 2005), Kyoto (Japan, 2009), and Birmingham (UK, 2013), now it is the time for a new journey for the physiologists to stop in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2017). The World Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) is back to South America 58 years after the 21st IUPS Congress held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, i...
