We are engaged in the development of a synthetic red blood cell product called "PHER-O2." The development of this product presently comprises our sole business operations. PHER-O2 is composed of perfluoro-decalin molecules, or synthetic red blood cells, purified water and a proprietary, synthetic, fluorinated surfactant, or wetting agent, to hold the emulsion together. Perfluoro-decalin has great oxygen-carrying capacity, yet it can be as much as 25 times smaller than a red blood cell. We believe that PHER-O2 can carry three to four times the oxygen of human blood per unit volume. This increased oxygen-carrying capacity would make PHER-O2 useful in the treatment of heart attacks, strokes, cancer and other diseases for which increased oxygenation is beneficial. We also believe that perfluoro-decalin is effective as an imaging agent in X-ray imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and CAT scans, without side effects. Our management estimates that PHER-O2 has several other advantages over human blood: that it can be sterilized to be free of disease; that it has the quality of a universal match for all blood types; that it can be mass-produced; and that it can be stored at room temperature for up to three and one half years, much longer than human blood, which can only be stored at room temperature for about 42 days.