Company Overview


NuvOx Pharma LLC is a Bio-Medical Nano-Technology company based in Tucson, Arizona. Forty years of industry experience drives NuvOx Pharma into exciting bio-technology advancements in therapeutic approaches to cancer, hemorrhagic shock, traumatic brain injury and stroke. The core technology of NuvOx is utilizing one particular perfluorocarbon, dodecafluoropentane (DDFP), which provides multiple advantages for respiratory gas transfer and can be applied to  a host of therapeutic indications.

Due to their inherent structure, extreme stability and relative lack of inter-molecular attractive forces, perfluorocarbons are known to carry large payloads of gas such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. The main advantage to using DDFP is that it is a liquid at room temperature and ambient pressure, but expands to the gas state at 29 degrees C and ambient pressure. Therefore, upon intravenous injection (at biological temperature (37 degrees C) and standard vascular pressures), a certain amount of expansion occurs in the bloodstream to allow even larger amounts of respiratory gases to be carried.