Pathophysiology is a modern integrative biomedical science founded on basic and clinical research that is concerned with the mechanisms responsible for the initiation, development, and treatment of pathological processes in humans and animals.

      The International Society for Pathophysiology (ISP) was founded in the General Assembly of the participants of the Constituent Congress of Pathophysiology, 1991 in Moscow.

      The ISP is a non-governmental, non-profit organization uniting specialists of experimental physiology, clinical medicine and modern biology who work on the problems of human and animal pathophysiology.

      The ISP cooperates with related international scientific societies and associations.

--The Preamble of The ISP Constitution
(last version accepted at the 4th ISP Congress in Budapest, 2002)