International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue
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The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) is an interdisciplinary society of approximately 300 members that represents essentially every major tissue oxygen research laboratory in the world. Its purpose is to further the understanding of all aspects of the processes involved in the oxygen transport from the air to its ultimate consumption in the cells of the various organs of the body.

ISOTT was founded in April, 1973 by Duane F. Bruley
Duane F. Bruley
-Positions:Dr. Bruley has served as Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, Dean of Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Head of Biomedical Engineering and...

, Ph.D., P.E. and James Haim I. Bicher
James Haim I. Bicher
James Haim I. Bicher, M.D. is an American radiation oncologist. He is a pioneer in the clinical use of Hyperthermia combined with low dose radiation therapy...

, 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 proceedings of the society. These have been published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in its Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology series and lately by Springer
Springer Science+Business Media
- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

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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.

Since 1983 ISOTT has established awards to acknowledge outstanding young investigators. Among those are the Melvin H. Knisely
Melvin H. Knisely
Melvin Henry Knisely , was an American physiologist who first observed the pathological clumping of red and white cells, in vivo, at the capillary level...

 Award, the Dietrich W. Lübbers Award, The Duane F. Bruley
Duane F. Bruley
-Positions:Dr. Bruley has served as Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, Dean of Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Head of Biomedical Engineering and...

 Awards, and The Britton Chance
Britton Chance
Britton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in...

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