Professor James Fitzsimons FRS

College positions:

Life Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Medical Physiology

Formerly President, Director of Studies in Medicine, Tutor and College Lecturer in Physiology
Subjects: Medicine

MA, PhD, ScD, MD (all Cantab)

Physiology and pathophysiology of thirst and sodium appetite, the renin-angiotensin system, cardiovascular system and kidney.

Sir Lionel Whitby Medal 1967-68 MD thesis The Physiology of Drinking

Docteur honoris causa en Médecine de l’Université de Lausanne, Suisse 1978

Distinguished Career Award of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior 1998

Music, especially piano, modern European history, gardening, cats