About

The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue is an interdisciplinary society comprising about 250 members worldwide. Its purpose is to further the understanding of all aspects of the processes involved in the transport of oxygen from the air to its ultimate consumption in the cells of the various organs of the body.

The annual conference brings together scientists, engineers, clinicians and mathematicians in a unique international forum for the exchange of information and knowledge, the updating of participants on latest developments and techniques, and the discussion of controversial issues within the field of oxygen transport to tissue.

Founded in 1973 by Duane F. Bruley, Ph.D., P.E., and James Haim I. Bicher, M.D., the society has been the leading platform for the presentation of many of the technological and conceptual developments within the field both at the meetings themselves and in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the society. These have been published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in its Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series and lately by Springer.

Examples of areas in which members have made highly significant contributions include electrode techniques, spectrophotometric methods, mathematical modeling of oxygen transport, the understanding of local regulation of oxygen supply to tissue and fluorocarbons/blood substitutes.

The ISOTT Constitution and Bylaws (PDF) contain the code that governs all aspects of our society’s activities.

The Founding of ISOTT: The Shamattawa of Engineering Science and Medical Science (by Duane F. Bruley, Society Historian) (PDF)

Current president of ISOTT

Prof. Fahmeed Hyder
Yale University, USA

Organizer of the ISOTT 2027 conference in
New Haven, CT, USA

Past ISOTT presidents

Prof. Alexander Caicedo-Dorado (Pontificia Universidad Javerian, Colombia) (ISOTT 2026)

Prof. Ilias Tachtsidis (University College London, UK) (ISOTT 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece)

Prof. Sally Pias (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA) (ISOTT 2024)

Prof. Kaoru Sakatani (The University of Tokyo, Japan) (ISOTT 2023)

Prof. Kazuto Masamoto (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) (ISOTT 2023)

Prof. Ursula Wolf (University of Bern, Switzerland) (ISOTT 2020, 2021, 2022)

Prof. Edwin M. Nemoto (The University of New Mexico, USA) (ISOTT 2019, ISOTT 1995)

Prof. Pan Dong Ryu (Seoul National University, South Korea) (ISOTT 2018)

Prof. Oliver Thews (University Halle, Germany) (ISOTT 2017)

Prof. Howard J. Halpern (University of Chicago, USA) (ISOTT 2016)

Prof. Qingming Luo (Hainan University, China) (ISOTT 2015)

Prof. Lin Z. Li (University of Pennsylvania, USA) (ISOTT 2015)

Prof. Clare Elwell (University College London, UK) (ISOTT 2014)

Prof. Harold M. Swartz (Geisel School of Medicine, USA) (ISOTT 2013, ISOTT 1999)

Prof. Sabine van Huffel (KU Leuven, Belgium) (ISOTT 2012)

Prof. Wiliam Welch (Georgetown University, USA) (ISOTT 2011)

Prof. Martin Wolf (University of Zurich, Switzerland) (ISOTT 2010)

Prof. Joseph C. LaManna (Case Western Reserve University, USA) (ISOTT 2009)

Prof. Eiji Takahashi (Saga University, Japan) (ISOTT 2008)

Prof. Dr. Mamoru Tamura (Kagoshima University, Japan) (ISOTT 2008)

Prof. Per Liss (Uppsala University, Sweden) (ISOTT 2007)

Prof. Kyung A. Kang (University of Louisville, USA) (ISOTT 2006)

Prof. David J. Maguire (Griffith University, USA) (ISOTT 2005)

Prof. Gerolamo Cicco (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) (ISOTT 2004)

Prof. Paul Okunieff (University of Rochester, USA) (ISOTT 2003)

Dr. Maureen S. Thorniley (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK) (ISOTT 2002)

Prof. David F. Wilson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) (ISOTT 2001)

Prof. Berend Oeseburg (University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlan) (ISOTT 2000)

Prof. Andras Eke (Semmelweis University, Hungary) (ISOTT 1998)

Prof. Anthony G. Hudetz (University of Michigan, USA) (ISOTT 1997)

Dr. David K. Harrison (Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Scotland) (ISOTT 1996)

Prof. Can Ince (Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands) (ISOTT 1994)

Prof. Kutay Akpir (University of Istanbul, Turkey) (ISOTT 1994)

Prof. Peter D. Wagner) (1993 Peter D. Wagner San Diego, CA, USA University of California, USA) (ISOTT 1993)

Prof. Peter Vaupel (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) (ISOTT 1992)

Prof. Wilhelm Erdmann (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) (ISOTT 1991)

Prof. Michael McCabe (Griffith University, Australia) (ISOTT 1990)

Prof. Johannes Piiper (Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Germany) (ISOTT 1989)

Prof. Karel Rakusan (University of Ottawa, Canada) (ISOTT 1988)

Prof. Masaji Mochizuki (Nishimaruyama Hospital, Japan) (ISOTT 1987)

Prof. Carl R. Honig (University of Rochester, USA) (ISOTT 1987)

Prof. Ian A. Silver (University of Bristol, UK) (ISOTT 1986, ISOTT 1977)

Prof. Ian S. Longmuir (North Carolina State University, USA) (ISOTT 1985)

Prof. Ferdinand Kreuzer (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) (ISOTT 1984)

Prof. Duane F. Bruley (Louisiana Tech University, USA) (ISOTT 1983, ISOTT 1974, ISOTT 1973)

Prof. Dietrich W. Lübbers (Max-Planck-Institut for System Physiology, Germany) (ISOTT 1982)

Prof. James Haim. I. Bicher (University of Arkansas, USA) (ISOTT 1981, ISOTT 1974, ISOTT 1973)

Prof. Arisztid G.B. Kovách (Semmelweis University, Hungary) (ISOTT 1980)

Prof. José Strauss (University of Miami, USA) (ISOTT 1979, ISOTT 1978)

Prof. Britton Chance (University of Pennsylvania, USA) (ISOTT 1976)

Prof. Gerhard Thews (University of Mainz, Germany) (ISOTT 1975)

Prof. Melvin H. Knisely (Medical College of South Carolina, USA) (ISOTT 1974, ISOTT 1973)

ISOTT officers

President

Fahmeed Hyder Yale University, USA

Phone: (+1) 203 785 6205 fahmeed.hyder@yale.edu

President-elect

Turgut Durduran ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

Phone: (+34) 93 553-4151 turgut.durduran@icfo.eu

Past president

Alexander Caicedo-Dorado
Pontificia Universidad Javerian, Colombia

Phone: (+57) 601 320-8320 acaicedod@javeriana.edu.co

Secretary

Ursula Wolf University of Bern, Switzerland

Phone: (+41) 31 684-1550 ursula.wolf@unibe.ch

Treasurer

He Xu
University of Pennsylvania
Lansdowne, PA (USA)

Phone: (+1) 484-432-7106 isott_treasurer@outlook.com

Head of publication committee

Ilias Tachtsidis University College London, UK

Phone: (+44) 20 7679 0269 i.tachtsidis@ucl.ac.uk

Executive committee

Allan Doctor (USA)
Turgut Durduran (Spain)
Mada Hashem (Canada)
Kazuki Hotta (Japan)
Alexander Kalyanov (Switzerland)
Maheen Siddiqui (UK)
Qi Wang (USA)
Hamoon Zohdi (Switzerland)
Victor Ochoa-Gutierrez (USA)