Awards
The Melvin H. Knisely Award
It was established in 1983 to honor Dr. Knisely’s accomplishments in the field of the transport of oxygen and other metabolites and anabolites in the human body. Over the years, he has inspired many young investigators and this award is to honor his enthusiasm for assisting and encouraging young scientists and engineers in various disciplines. The award is to acknowledge outstanding young investigators. This award was first presented during the banquet of the 1983 annual conference of ISOTT in Ruston, Louisiana. The award includes a Melvin H. Knisely plaque and a cash prize.
- A candidate must have a PhD, MD, or equivalent.
- The candidate must provide evidence of sustained activity in research related to oxygen transport to tissue.
- The candidate must be a member of ISOTT or be eligible for the membership.
- The candidate must submit one or more abstracts as a lead author, make a research presentation during the annual ISOTT conference in the year of nomination, and submit a full manuscript to the ISOTT proceedings in the year of nomination.
- A candidate who is unsuccessful in any given year may be nominated again in a subsequent year, as long as the award criteria are met in the year of nomination.
- There is no age limit on the award, but it is intended for young or early-career researchers.
The candidate must be nominated (self nomination is not allowed) and the nominator must be an ISOTT member. A full nomination package includes: a nomination letter; a copy of a curriculum vitae demonstrating the candidate’s accomplishments; at least two (2) additional letters of support; and a copy of a first-author manuscript for the ISOTT proceeding in the year of nomination. Additional supporting materials may be included. Nominations with an incomplete package will not be considered.
Please send complete nomination packages to Dr. Duane F. Bruley via e-mail (Bruley@UMBC.edu) or Synthesizer, Inc., 2773 Westminster Road, Ellicot City, MD 21043, USA. Deadline: July 1.
July 1
1983: Antal G. Hudetz (Hungary)
1984: Andras Eke (Hungary)
1985: Nathan A. Bush (USA)
1986: Karlfried Groebe (Germany)
1987: Isumi Shibuya (Japan)
1988: Kyung A. Kang (Korea/USA)
1989: Sanja Batra (Canada)
1990: Stephen J. Cringle (Australia)
1991: Paul Okunieff (USA)
1992: Hans Degens (The Netherlands)
1993: David A. Benaron (USA)
1994: Koen van Rossem (Belgium)
1995: Clare E Elwell (UK)
1996: Sergei A. Vinogradov (USA)
1997: Chris Cooper (UK)
1998: Martin Wolf (Switzerland)
1999: Huiping Wu (USA)
2000: Valentina Quaresima (Italy)
2001: Fahmeed Hyder (Bangladesh)
2002: Geofrey De Visscher (Belgium)
2003: Mohammad Nadeem Khan (USA)
2004: Fredrick Palm (Sweden)
2005: Nicholas Lintell (Australia)
2007: Ilias Tachtsidis (UK)
2008: Kazuto Masamoto (Japan)
2009: Rossana Occhipinti (USA)
2010: Sebatiano Cicco (Italy)
2011: Mei Zhang (USA)2012: Takahiro Igarashi (Japan)
2013: Malou Friederich-Persson (Sweden) 2014: David Highton (UK)
2015: Alexander Caicedo-Dorado (Belgium) 2016: Sally Pias (USA)
2017: Felix Scholkmann (Switzerland)
2018: Anne Riemann (Germany)
2019: Ting Li (China)
2021: An Ghysels (Belgium)
2022: Alexander Kalyanov (Switzerland)
2023: Hamoon Zohdi (Switzerland)
2025: Ben Jones (UK)
The Dietrich W. Lübbers Award
It was established in honor of Professor Lübbers’s long-standing commitment, interest, and contributions to the problems of oxygen transport to tissue and to the society. This award was first presented in 1994 during the annual conference of ISOTT in Istanbul, Turkey.
- The candidate should be a young scientist near the start of their career and not more than three years after receipt of a graduate-level degree (e.g., Masters, PhD, MD, or equivalent), adding one year per child and/or one year of clinical work. The stage of career must be declared by the person nominating the candidate.
- The candidate must provide evidence of sustained research activities in the field of oxygen transport to tissue (and/or a related field).
- The candidate must be a member of ISOTT or eligible for membership.
- The candidate must submit one or more abstracts as a lead author, make a research presentation during the annual ISOTT conference in the year of nomination, and submit a full manuscript to the ISOTT proceedings in the year of nomination.
- A recipient who has previously received a Knisely Award may not be nominated for this award.
- The candidate for this award may be simultaneously eligible for the Britton Chance Award in the year of the nomination, but a candidate may receive only one award.
- A candidate who is unsuccessful in any given year may be nominated again in a subsequent year, as long as the award criteria are met in the year of nomination.
The candidate must be nominated (self nomination is not allowed), and the nominator must be ISOTT members. A full nomination package includes: a nomination letter; a copy of a curriculum vitae demonstrating the candidate’s accomplishments; and a copy of a first-author manuscript for the ISOTT proceeding in the year of nomination. Additional supporting materials may be included. Nominations with an incomplete package will not be considered.
The application should be submitted to the ISOTT President in the nomination year.
July 1
1994: Michael Dubina (Russia)
1995: Philip E. James (UK/USA)
1996: Resit Demit (Germany)
1997: Juan Carlos Chavez (Peru)
1998: Nathan A. Davis (UK)
1999: Paola Pichiule (USA)
2000: Ian Balcer (USA)
2001: Theresa M. Busch (USA)
2002: Link K. Korah (USA)
2003: James J. Lee (USA)
2004: Richard Olson (Sweden)
2005: Charlotte Ives (UK)
2006: Bin Hong (China/USA)
2007: Helga Blockx (Belgium)
2008: Joke Vanderhaegen (Belgium)
2009: Matthew Bell (UK)
2010: Alexander Caicedo Dorado (Belgium)
2011: Malou Friedrich (Sweden)
2012: Maria Papademetriou (UK)
2013: Nannan Sun (China)
2014: Felix Scholkmann (Switzerland)
2015: Shun Takagi (Japan)
2016: Gemma Bale (UK)
2017: Ben Jones (UK)
2018: Hamoon Zohdi (Switzerland)
2019: Kazaki Hotta (Japan)
2021: Masamichi Moriya (Japan)
2022: Frédéric Lange (UK)
2023: Jingjing Jiang (Switzerland)
2025: Maheen Siddiqui (UK)
The Britton Chance Award
- The candidate should be a young scientist near the start of their career and not more than three years after receipt of a graduate-level degree (e.g., Masters, PhD, MD, or equivalent), adding one year per child and/or one year of clinical work. The stage of career must be declared by the person nominating the candidate.
- The candidate must provide evidence of sustained research activities in the field of oxygen transport to tissue (and/or a related field).
- The candidate must be a member of ISOTT or eligible for membership.
- The candidate must submit one or more abstracts as a lead author, make a research presentation during the annual ISOTT conference in the year of nomination, and submit a full manuscript to the ISOTT proceedings in the year of nomination.
- A recipient who has previously received a Knisely Award may not be nominated for this award.
- The candidate for this award may be simultaneously eligible for the Dietrich W. Lübbers Award in the year of the nomination, but a candidate may receive only one award.
- A candidate who is unsuccessful in any given year may be nominated again in a subsequent year, as long as the award criteria are met in the year of nomination.
The candidate must be nominated (self-nomination is not allowed), and the nominator must be ISOTT members. A full nomination package includes: a nomination letter; a copy of curriculum vitae demonstrating the candidate’s accomplishments; and a copy of first-author manuscript for the ISOTT proceeding in the year of nomination. Additional supporting materials may be included. Nominations with an incomplete package will not be considered.
The application should be submitted to the ISOTT President in the nomination year.
July 1
2004: Derek Brown (Switzerland)
2005: James Lee (USA)
2006: Hanzhu Jin (China/USA)
2007: Eric Mellon (USA)
2008: Jianting Wang (USA)
2009: Jessica Spires (USA)
2010: Ivo Trajkovic (Switzerland)
2011: Alexander Caicedo Dorado (Belgium)
2012: Felix Scholkmann (Switzerland)
2013: Tharindi Hapuarachchi (UK)
2014: Anne Riemann (Germany)
2015: Wenhao Xie (China)
2016: Linda Ahnen (Switzerland)
2017: Helene Isler (Switzerland)
2018: Jingjing Jiang (Switzerland)
2019: Alexander Kalyanov (Switzerland)
2021: Maheen Siddiqui (UK)
2022: Samaneh Davoudi (Belgium)
2023: Djazia Yacheur (Switzerland)
2025: Masamichi Moriya (Japan)
The Duane F. Bruley Travel Awards
They were established in 2003 and first presented by ISOTT at the 2004 annual conference in Bari, Italy. This award was created to provide travel funds for student researchers in all aspects of areas of oxygen transport to tissue. The awards signify Dr. Bruley’s interest in encouraging and supporting young researchers to maintain the image and quality of research associated with the society. As a co-founder of ISOTT in 1973, Dr. Bruley emphasizes cross-disciplinary research among basic scientists, engineers, medical scientists, and clinicians. His pioneering work constructing mathematical models for oxygen and other anabolite/metabolite transport in the microcirculation, employing computer solutions, were the first to consider system non-linearities, time dependence, including multi-dimensional diffusion, convection, and reaction kinetics. It is hoped that receiving the Duane F. Bruley Travel Award will inspire students to excel in their research and will assist in securing future leadership for ISOTT.
A candidate can be nominated and receive this award multiple times, as long as if he/she meets the award criteria in the year of nomination. The award includes a certificate and a cash prize that can assist with paying for ISOTT meeting registration fees and/or travel expenses.
- The candidate must be either a student (undergraduate or graduate) or a postdoctoral fellow at the time of the annual meeting and be a member of ISOTT or eligible for membership.
- The candidate must provide evidence of sustained research activities in the field of oxygen transport to tissue (and/or a related field).
- The candidate must submit one or more abstracts as a lead author, make a research presentation during the annual ISOTT conference in the year of nomination, and submit a full manuscript to the ISOTT proceedings in the year of nomination.
- A recipient who has previously received a Knisely Award may not be nominated for this award.
- The candidate for this award may be simultaneously nominated for other ISOTT awards, but a candidate may receive only one award.
- A candidate who is unsuccessful in any given year may be nominated again in a subsequent year, as long as the award criteria are met in the year of nomination.
The candidate must be nominated by the mentor. A full nomination package includes: a nomination letter with a clear description on the nominee’s academic status (either student or post doctoral fellow) and a copy of first-author manuscript for the ISOTT proceeding in the year of nomination.
The application should be submitted to the ISOTT President.
July 1
- 2004: Helga Blockx (Belgium), Jennifer Caddick (UK), Charlotte Ives (UK), Nicholas Lintell (Australia), Leonardo Mottola (Italy), Samin Rezania (USA/Iran), Ilias Tachtsidis (UK), Liang Tang (USA/China), Iyichi Sonoro (Japan), Antonio Franco (Italy)
- 2005: Robert Bradley (UK), Harald Oey (Australia), Kathy Hsieh (Australia), Jan Shah (Australia)
- 2006: Ben Gooch (UK), Ulf Jensen (Germany), Smruta Koppaka (USA), Daya Singh (UK), Martin Tisdall (UK), Bin Wong (USA), Kui Xu (USA)
- 2007: Dominique De Smet (Belgium), Thomas Ingram (UK), Nicola Lai (USA), Andrew Pinder (UK), Joke Vanderhaegen (Belgium)
- 2008: Sebastiano Chicco (Italy)
- 2009: Lei Gao (UK), Jianting Wang (USA), Obinna Ndubuizu (USA), Joke Vanderhaegen (Belgium)
- 2010: Zareen Bashir (UK), Tracy Moroz (UK), Mark Muthalib (Australia), Catalina Meßmer (USA), Takashi Eriguchi (Japan), Yoshihiro Murata
(Japan), Jack Honeysett (UK), Martin Biallas (Switzerland) - 2011: Catherine Hesford (UK), Luke S. Holdsworth (UK), Andreas Metz (Switzerland), Maria D. Papademetriou (UK), Patrik Persson (Sweden),
Felix Scholkmann (Switzerland), Kouichi Yoshihara (Japan) - 2012: Allann Al-Armaghany (UK), Malou Friederich-Persson (Sweden), Tharindi Hapuarachchi (UK), Benjamin Jones (UK), Rebecca Re (Italy), Yuta Sekiguchi (Japan), Ebba Sivertsson (Sweden), André Steimers
(Germany) - 2013: Allann Al-Armaghany (UK), Gemma Bale (UK), Alexander Caicedo-Dorado (Belgium), Luke Dunne (UK)
- 2014: Geraldine De Preter (Belgium), Benjamin Jones (UK), Stefan Kleiser (Switzerland), Nassimsadat Nasseri (Switzerland), Marie-Aline Neveu (Belgium), Shinsuke Nirengi (Japan), Takuya Osawa (Japan)
- 2015: Gemma Bale (UK), Chenyang Gao (China), Chae Jeong Lim (Korea), Phong Phan (UK), Guennadi Saiko (Canada), Kuangyu Shi (Germany), Nannan Sun (China)
- 2016: Isabel De Roever (UK), Yuya Enokida (Japan), Jingjing Jiang
(Switzerland), Frédéric Lange (UK), Andreas J Metz (Switzerland), Shun Takagi (Japan) - 2017: Luca Giannoni (UK), Jingjing Jiang (Switzerland), Alexander Kalyanov (Switzerland), Zuzana Kovacsova (UK), Nassim Nasseri (Switzerland),
Maheen Faisal Siddiqui (UK), Shun Takagi (Japan), Yusuke Tsuruno (Japan), Lina Xu (Germany), Hamoon Zohdi (Switzerland) - 2018: Andrei Belten (Canada), Aldo Di Costanzo Mata (Switzerland), Yuki Komuro (Japan), Joshua Russell-Buckland (UK), Dries Hendrikx
(Belgium), Shun Takagi (Japan) - 2019: Gary Angles (USA), Min Feng (USA), Thea Hüsing (Germany),
Bhabuk Koirala (USA), Sho Kojima (Japan), Jonathan Nguyen (USA), Labiblais Rahman (Japan), Mandy Rauschner (Germany), Aarti
Sethuraman (USA), Eileen Thiessen (USA) - 2020: (meeting was omitted due to COVID-19 pandemic) 2021: (online meeting)
- 2022: Xianyin Hu (Japan), Djazia Yacheur (Switzerland), Victor Ochoa-Gutierrez (UK, Mexico), Tarcisi Cantieni (Switzerland), Tong Li
(Switzerland) - 2023: Hikari Otsuka (Japan)
- 2025:
Angelos Artemiou (UK)
Chiara Camati (Italy)
Letizia Contini (Italy)
Sarusan Jegatheeswaran (Switerland)
Wieland Lackinger (Switzerland)
Xingmin Li (UK)
Sung Min Park (USA)
Tomoya Takahashi (Japan)
Abhaya Thayaparan (UK)
Wataru Tsuchiya (Japan)
Oleksii Ustinov (Switzerland)
Junda Wang (UK)
Djazia Yacheur (Switzerland)
Gülnaz Yükselen (Turkey)