Yukihide Isogai 2005 Recipient of the Jean-Leonard-Marie Poiseuille Award Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Biorheology and Hemorheology

Yukihide Isogai received the Poiseuille Gold Medal Award in 2005 at the 12th International Congress of Biorheology. Professor Isogai helped pioneer biorheology in Japan.

In the early 1960's, he started the study of viscosity of blood and dynamic viscoelasticity of clotting blood. It was at Jikei University School of Medicine where he studied clinical medicine and where he worked for about 40 years. Although a clinical physician, he was interested in basic science and performed a number of active research projects in cooperation with physical scientists in biorheology, such as Professor Oka at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He also invented new rheological devices at his laboratory.

His interests included the physiological properties of blood which were closely related to diseases he encountered in the hospital. His particular area of interest was diabetes, a very important disease in the present civilized life. Professor Isogai discovered a number of principles which govern the relation between the physical and chemical properties of blood and medical observations.By these achievements, he was a leader in establishing the importance of biorheology in clinical medicine.

The title of his lecture at the 2005 International Biorheology Congress was "What is biorheology? Activities in the field of clinical hemorheology, with special reference to Diabetes Mellitus."