BHOC Knowledge Archive

Historical Sources & Primary Documents

A curated record of the people, institutions, regulatory milestones and manufacturing systems that shaped hemoglobin-based oxygen therapeutics.

This section presents referenced historical analysis alongside the records on which that analysis is built. Corporate reporting is identified as company-reported evidence; regulatory, institutional and peer-reviewed sources are linked wherever available.

Historical Perspective
Archil Jaliashvili
August 2026

Biopure and the People Behind an Early Oxygen-Therapeutics Platform

A people-first history of the institutional network that carried a difficult biotechnology program from process engineering and industrial manufacturing to regulatory translation and clinical use.

Carl W. Rausch · David N. Judelson · Theodore Cooper · C. Everett Koop · Charles A. Sanders · Joachim Schnell

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