You are cordially invited to the 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT), which will be hosted by Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics (BC CBMP), Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, China on July 11-16th. This ISOTT meeting will start with an afternoon registration and evening reception on July 11th and end with an evening banquet and award ceremony on July 15th, 2015. Participants may depart in the morning of July 16th.

In the tradition of the ISOTT society, the annual meeting will bring together physiologists, biochemists, clinicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians in a unique cross-disciplinary forum for discussions on a broad range of topics on oxygen in health and disease. The conference will cover all aspects of oxygen transport to tissue ranging from theory, modeling, technical development, to biomedical and clinical applications. The keynote speeches will be given by experts in various fields such as mitochondrial medicine, tumor oxygenation, oxygen metabolism and free radicals, microcirculation and hemorheology, methodological development and clinical translations.

We hope ISOTT 2015 will be an energetic and enriched event as this is the first time for ISOTT to be organized in China in its history of 43 years. The exciting scientific program will be matched by charming social events including a night cruise along the Yangtze River. Wuhan is also a place where you will enjoy the fantastic landscape of lakes and hills, scenic spots and historical sites with the unique eastern culture and

Again you are warmly welcome to Wuhan and join us in the scientifically- and socially-stimulating ISOTT 2015!

Qingming Luo and Lin Z. Li

Presidents of ISOTT 2015

Confirmed Keynote Speeches (to be added):

Hideaki Koizumi (Vice President of Engineering Academy of Japan, Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering)

"Mindscope: Present and Future
--- Building on the legacy of Britton Chance ---"

James Scott (Imperial College London, Fellow of the Royal Society, UK)

"Mitochondria in human blood brain barrier vascular endothelial cells compared to peripheral endothelial cells"

Peter Vaupel (University Medical Center, Mainz, Member of the Academy of Science and Literature at Mainz, Germany)

"Tumor Hypoxia: mechanisms, microregional heterogeneities and the role of

hypoxia-associated biomarkers"

Doug Wallace (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA)

"A Mitochondrial Etiology of Rare and Common Diseases and the Quest for New Diagnostic Modalities"

Lihong Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Fellow of the AIMBE, OSA, IEEE, and SPIE)

"Redefining the spatiotemporal limits of optical imaging: Photoacoustic tomography, wavefront engineering, and compressed ultrafast photography"

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Due:  April 17
Late Submission for Poster: June 14
Early Registration Due:  June 20
Manuscript Submission Due: August 15

ISOTT History:

The Founding of ISOTT: The Shamattawa of Engineering Science and Medical Science 

(Dr. Duane F. Bruley)