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 meeting 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)