Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation - ALLP- Profile

Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation. The principal activities of the Company is identifying, designing, and developing novel medical products. The Company is engaged in development of scientific discoveries into medical products and licensing these products to multinational pharmaceutical companies in exchange for fixed payments and royalty or profit sharing payments. The Company has developed three innovative products through initial clinical (human) trials. The products are Oxygent-TM, Liquivent, Imavist-TM. The Company's strategy is to identify potential new medical products though its own efforts and scientific collaborations with researchers and clinicians in universities and medical centers. In Dec 2000 the company acquired Molecular Biosystems Inc a developer of intravenous ultrasound contrast agent for the heart.