The Ozone Research Center, a scientific branch of the National Center for Scientific Research of Cuba (NCSR), was founded on May 1st, 1994. It is responsible for leading the studies and extending ozone applications all over the country. Among the functions of this Center there is the performance and coordination of the full-cycle research: Research and Development, Production and Marketing.

To perform those functions, there are Laboratories of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Biological Assays, Instrumental Analysis, Water Treatment, Ozonized substances, Mechanical and Electronic Design. It has also two clinics: one for offering international medical services through Health Tourism (Internaional Ozone Therapy Clinic) and a national clinic for developing and performing different research protocols linked to ozone therapy. Moreover, it has a plant to produce ozonized sunflower oil for topical use (OLEOZON^®) which is registered in Cuba as a drug for the treatment of epidermophytosis. In this facility, a similar product is obtained that has completed the clinical assays and it is in registration phase as a drug for the treatment of giardiasis.

The scientific work of our scientists has been continuous. Since 1987, many papers have been presented in the Ozone World Congresses and then published in high impact national and international scientific journals. In Cuba, at the Ozone Research Center, two national and three international conferences on ozone research and applications have been held. There, more than 200 papers have been presented and a hundred researchers and specialists from fifty countries have taken part in the conferences. The results obtained have given the Center a worldwide reputation in the medical and industrial applications of ozone. It is affiliated to the International Association of Ozone (IOA), since 1995.

The Ozone Research Center has obtained several sanitary registers, patents, industrial models and brands in its short life. Likewise, it has extended the medical applications of ozone all over the country, through a National Network for ozone therapy that gathers over 40 national health institutions. This network guarantees the fast introduction of the results, as well as the decrease of the times for performing the necessary clinical assays for the medical registers of the different therapeutic applications of ozone.

The scientific approach f the work performed in all these years and the contributions to Medicine, have given Cuba a well known worldwide reputation in the field of the medical applications of ozone. Likewise, a satisfactory work of design and manufacture of ozonizers for therapeutic uses and other necessary accessories to perform this work have been carried out. All that has made possible the national production of the essential technology for extending ozone therapy through all the country, and the export to other countries.