Zafiris G. Zafirelis

Hemoglobin Oxygen Therapeutics LLC operates as a biotechnology company. It is focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of a proprietary technology platform for oxygen-carrying solutions that address critical unmet medical needs in both human and veterinary medicine. The firm’s products include Hemopure and Oxyglobin. The company was founded by Zafiris G. Zafirelis and Igor Serov on February 18, 2014 and is headquartered in Souderton, PA.

OPK Biotech LLC is an American company that manufactures intravenous pharmaceuticals.

MedQuest Products, Inc. was a developer of artificial heart technology. It was a medical device development company specializing in artificial blood pumps and biocompatible coatings. Gill Bearnson and Pratap Khanwilkar founded the company in 1993. MedQuest Products was located in Salt Lake City, UT.

CardiacAssist, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets medical devices. The firm’s products include TandemLife Kit, TandemHeart Kit, TandemLung Kit, ProtekDuo Kit and educational videos. The company was founded by John C. Marous, Jr. and George J. Magovern in 1996 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Biopure Corp. developed, manufactured and marketed oxygen therapeutics, a new class of pharmaceuticals that are administered intravenously to increase oxygen transport to the body's tissues. The company used patented and proprietary technology to develop and manufacture two products: Hemopure for human use, and Oxyglobin for veterinary use. It has developed Hemopure for the treatment of patients with cardiovascular ischemia. Oxyglobin, its veterinary product treated anemia in dogs, is the only oxygen therapeutic approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission. Biopure was founded in 1984 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA.