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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

NOTE 9 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Issuance of Stock Options

 

On February 26, 2020, the Compensation Committee of the Company pre-approved the grants of stock options under the Inducement Plan to new hires of the Company. On April 1, 2020, these employees were granted options to purchase an aggregate of 51,650 shares of the Company's Common Stock with an exercise price of $24.25 per share. These options will expire ten years from the date of grant and will each vest 25% between March 9, 2021 and March 23, 2021 (depending on the specific grant) and the remainder of the underlying shares shall vest in thirty-six equal monthly installments thereafter.

 

On April 27, 2020, the Compensation Committee of the Company approved the grant of stock options under the 2020 Inducement Plan to new hires of the Company. On May 1, 2020, these employees were granted options to purchase an aggregate of 4,100 shares of the Company's Common Stock with an exercise price of $24.02 per share. These options expire ten years from the date of grant and vests 25% between April 20, 2020 and April 27, 2020 (depending on the specific grant) and the remainder of the underlying shares shall vest in thirty-six equal monthly installments thereafter.

  

Employee Benefit Plan

 

The Company maintains a defined contribution benefit plant under section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code covering substantially all qualified employees of the Company (the "401(k) Plan"). Under the 401(k) Plan, the Company matches 100% up to a 4% contribution. The plan was not implemented until the second quarter of 2020.

  

COVID-19

 

The ultimate impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic or a similar health epidemic is highly uncertain and subject to change. The Company does not yet know the full extent of potential delays or impacts on its business, its research and development activities, healthcare systems or the global economy as a whole. However, the effects could have a material impact on the Company's operations, liquidity and capital resources and the Company will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation closely.

 

In response to public health directives and orders, the Company has implemented work-from-home policies for its employees and temporarily modified its operations to comply with applicable social distancing recommendations. Similar health directives and orders are affecting third parties with whom the Company does business, including the third party that the Company has contracted with to conduct comparability studies for TARA-002. The effects of the orders and the Company's related adjustments in its business is likely to negatively impact productivity, disrupt the Company's business and delay its timelines, the magnitude of which will depend, in part, on the length and severity of the restrictions and other limitations on the Company's ability to conduct its business in the ordinary course.

 

Severe and/or long-term disruptions in the Company's operations will negatively impact its business, operating results and financial condition in other ways, as well. Specifically, the Company anticipates that the stress of COVID-19 on healthcare systems around the globe will negatively impact its ability to conduct clinical trials in the near term due primarily to the lack of resources at clinical trial sites and the resulting inability to enroll patients in the trials. The Company also anticipates that the global impact of COVID-19 will negatively impact its ability to conduct nonclinical studies due primarily to laboratory closures and limited availability of personnel. In addition, while the potential economic impact brought by, and the duration of, COVID-19 may be difficult to assess or predict, it has significantly disrupted global financial markets, and may limit the Company's ability to access capital, which could in the future negatively affect its liquidity. A recession or market correction resulting from the spread of COVID-19 could materially affect the Company's business and the value of its common stock.