Professor Tilli Tansey has been elected to Honorary Membership of the Physiological Society for 'her many contributions to the advancement of physiology as the Honorary Archivist of the Physiological Society and for her work on the Makers of Modern Biomedicine project'.

The Physiological Society awards Honorary Membership to individuals who are 'persons of distinction in science who have contributed to the advancement of physiology or to the work of The Society'. Charles Darwin was the first Honorary member when the Society was founded in 1876.