Ansan Pharmaceuticals

Ansan Pharmaceuticals was a U.S. biotechnology/pharmaceutical company based in South San Francisco, California. The company appears to have operated as an early-stage drug development company before merging with Discovery Laboratories in 1997, after which the surviving public entity changed its name from Ansan Pharmaceuticals to Discovery Laboratories. Public records indicate Ansan Pharmaceuticals is therefore not an active standalone company today. Very limited reliable public information is available on any independent Ansan-era pipeline prior to the merger, and the company is best understood historically as the predecessor public shell/entity that combined with Discovery Laboratories.