Note 1 – The Company and Description of Business

Discovery Laboratories, Inc. (referred to as "we," "us," or the "Company") is a specialty biotechnology company focused on creating life-saving products for critical care patients with respiratory disease and improving the standard of care in pulmonary medicine. Our proprietary drug technology produces a synthetic, peptide-containing surfactant (KL4 surfactant) that is structurally similar to pulmonary surfactant, a substance produced naturally in the lung and essential for normal respiratory function and survival. We are developing our KL4 surfactant in liquid, lyophilized and aerosolized dosage forms. We are also developing novel drug delivery technologies potentially to enable efficient delivery of aerosolized drugs, including our aerosolized KL4 surfactant and other inhaled therapies. We believe that our proprietary technologies make it possible, for the first time, to develop a significant pipeline of products to address a variety of respiratory diseases for which there frequently are few or no approved therapies.

Our initial strategy is to develop our KL4 surfactant and drug delivery technologies to improve the management of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in premature infants. RDS is a serious respiratory condition caused by insufficient surfactant production in underdeveloped lungs of premature infants, and the most prevalent respiratory disease in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). RDS can result in long-term respiratory problems, developmental delay and death. Mortality and morbidity rates associated with RDS have not meaningfully improved over the last decade. We believe that the RDS market is presently underserved, and that our RDS programs have the potential to greatly improve the management of RDS and, collectively over time, to become a new standard of care for premature infants with RDS.

On March 6, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted us marketing approval for SURFAXIN® (lucinactant) for the prevention of RDS in premature infants at high risk for RDS. SURFAXIN is the first synthetic, peptide-containing surfactant approved for use in neonatal medicine and provides healthcare practitioners with an alternative to the animal-derived surfactants that today are the standard of care to manage RDS in premature infants.

In the third quarter of 2012, during a routine review of the results and processes related to the analytical testing and quality control of SURFAXIN drug product, we determined that one of our analytical chemistry methods used to assess SURFAXIN drug product conformance to specifications required improvement and that an update to product specifications was needed. We proactively communicated these findings to the FDA, improved and validated the analytical chemistry method, and submitted updated product specifications to the FDA. As a result of these efforts, we delayed the commercial availability of SURFAXIN drug product. Although there can be no assurances, if we are able to successfully conclude our planned activities and receive confirmation of our updated product specifications from the FDA within our anticipated timeline in the second quarter of 2013, we believe that we remain on track to manufacture SURFAXIN drug product for commercial use in the second quarter of 2013. This delay in availability of SURFAXIN drug product from the fourth quarter 2012 to the second quarter of 2013 is not expected to have a material adverse effect on our business or financial position, in part because our commercial launch plans for SURFAXIN during this period have always been to focus initially on hospital formulary acceptance.

AEROSURF® is a drug/device combination product that combines our KL4 surfactant with our proprietary capillary aerosol generator (CAG). We are developing AEROSURF for premature infants with or at risk for developing RDS. Premature infants with RDS currently are treated with surfactants that can only be administered by endotracheal intubation supported with mechanical ventilation, both invasive procedures that frequently result in serious respiratory conditions and complications. Consequently, neonatologists generally will not treat infants who could benefit from surfactant therapy unless they determine that the potential benefits of surfactant therapy outweigh the risks associated with such invasive administration procedures. AEROSURF potentially will provide practitioners with the ability to deliver surfactant therapy using a less-invasive method. For this reason, we believe that AEROSURF, if approved, potentially may enable the treatment of a significantly greater number of premature infants at risk for RDS who could benefit from surfactant therapy but are currently not treated. See, "– Surfactant Replacement Therapy for Respiratory Medicine – Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Premature Infants (RDS) – AEROSURF for RDS in Premature Infants."

We are developing a lyophilized (freeze-dried) dosage form of our KL4 surfactant that is stored as a powder and resuspended to liquid form prior to use with the objective of improving ease of use for healthcare practitioners, as well as potentially to prolong shelf life and eliminate the need for cold-chain storage. We are engaged in a technology transfer of our lyophilized KL4 surfactant manufacturing process to a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) that has expertise in lyophilized products, and we expect will manufacture drug product for use in our preclinical and clinical development activities. Our development plan is intended initially to support the use of our lyophilized KL4 surfactant in our AEROSURF development program. We are also assessing a potential development plan intended to gain marketing authorization for SURFAXIN LS™, a lyophilized dosage form of SURFAXIN, in the United States (U.S) and potentially other major markets.

AFECTAIR® devices are our novel disposable aerosol-conducting airway connectors that simplify the delivery of aerosolized medications (including our aerosolized KL4 surfactant) and other inhaled therapies to critical-care patients requiring ventilatory support by introducing the aerosolized medication directly at the patient interface and minimizing the number of connections in the ventilator circuit. In February 2012, we registered our AFECTAIR device in the U.S. as a Class I, exempt medical device. Our initial device is AFECTAIR aerosol-conducting airway connector for infants receiving aerosolized medication in neonatal or pediatric intensive care units (NICUs and PICUs, respectively). We are initiating a user experience program that is being conducted in select U.S. critical care centers that represent approximately ten percent (10%) of our target institutions. This initial phase, which is intended to facilitate peer-to-peer exchange among physicians and respiratory therapists and enable discussion about the potential advantages and proper utilization of this novel device, is expected to be conducted in the first half of 2013. Following the initial phase, we expect to initiate a broader introduction of the AFECTAIR device for infants in a national phase. We believe that AFECTAIR aerosol-conducting airway connectors have the potential to become a new standard of care for the delivery of aerosolized medications and inhaled therapies to infants receiving aerosolized medication in the NICU and PICU. We believe that revenues from the AFECTAIR device for infants in the fourth full selling year could potentially be $10 million in the U.S. and $20 million globally.

We expect that we will be able to leverage the information, data and know-how that we gain from our development efforts with AEROSURF for RDS and the AFECTAIR device for infants to support development of a product pipeline intended to address serious critical care respiratory conditions of larger children and adults in PICUs and intensive care units (ICUs). However, we are delaying these development efforts in the near term in order to focus our resources and expertise on meeting our 2013 goals to advance our development program for AEROSURF to Phase 2 clinical trials and execute the commercial introduction of SURFAXIN and the AFECTAIR device for infants. If we are able to achieve our 2013 objectives, we believe we will be in a better position to assess the potential of developing products based on our CAG and aerosol-conductor airway connector technologies to address the critical care needs of patients in the PICU and ICU.

In the U.S., we have established our own specialty respiratory critical care commercial and medical affairs organizations that are experienced in and will focus on neonatal indications. These organizations will be primarily responsible to effect the commercial introduction of SURFAXIN. With our established relationships and contacts in the neonatal community, we believe that we also will be able to use our commercial and medical affairs organizations to effectively introduce the AFECTAIR device for infants in the U.S. We also expect that, in the future, these teams will be able to leverage the experience and relationships that we gain with the introduction of SURFAXIN and the AFECTAIR device for infants to efficiently support the introductions of AEROSURF and SURFAXIN LS, if approved.

An important priority is to secure strategic resources to support the continued development and commercial introduction of our RDS products. While we currently intend to retain all rights and commercialize our approved products in the U.S., we are focused on identifying potential strategic alliances to assist us in markets outside the U.S. We seek strategic partners that have broad experience in the designated markets, including regulatory and product development expertise as well as, if our products are approved, an ability to commercialize our products. In addition to development and commercial support, such alliances typically also would provide us with financial resources to support our efforts, potentially in the form of upfront payments, milestone payments, commercialization royalties and a sharing of research and development expenses. In 2013, we are focused on securing a significant strategic alliance predominantly focused on the EU. In our discussions to date, the primary focus of our discussions has been on AEROSURF. We also would consider various financing alternatives or collaboration arrangements that would provide infusions of capital and other resources needed to advance our KL4 surfactant development programs. We may also seek strategic alliances and/or collaboration arrangements to support the potential commercial introduction of SURFAXIN and, if approved, SURFAXIN LS in countries where regulatory marketing authorization is facilitated by the information contained in our SURFAXIN new drug application (NDA) approved by the FDA. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in concluding any strategic alliance, collaboration or other similar transaction. See, Note 2 – Liquidity Risks and Management's Plans.