Isidoor Leusen

Isidoor Roger Leusen ( born December 17, 1923 in Ghent, † 17 January 2010) was a Belgian physiologist who was a professor at the University of Ghent. He has been dealing with the regulation of various body functions and systems, and received for his research including the Francqui price.

Life

Isidoor Leusen was born in 1923 in Ghent and graduated in 1948 at the university to study medicine with a doctorate. Having to 1953 at the University as a research assistant worked from 1948, he received there in 1953 with the de l' Enseignement Supérieur Agrégé also comparable with a postdoctoral teaching qualification.

Then he looked at Ghent University as a lecturer, before being appointed in 1962 as a full professor and head of the Laboratory of normal and pathological physiology. In 1964, he served as President of the Belgian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology, five years later he took over the presidency of the Belgian Society of Biology. He died in 2010.

Scientific work

Isidoor Leusen dealt in particular with the metabolism of the brain and the regulation of breathing, the cardiovascular system and other vegetative functions of the body. Based on its findings on the role of hydrogen ion concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid in the respiratory control he confirmed, among other things, the basic correctness of the theory of reaction of the German physiologist Hans Winterstein.

Awards

Isidoor Leusen was from 1962 a full member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for medicine. In 1969 he was awarded the main Belgian Science Award to the Francqui price.