Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Note 5 – Leases

On July 8, 2019, the Company entered into a lease termination agreement for its office space located at 300 Connell Drive, Suite 4000, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 effective August 31, 2019 (the “Lease Termination Agreement”). Pursuant to the Lease Termination Agreement, the Company was required to pay 50 percent of the remaining lease payments of $665,802 over three installments on September 1, 2019, December 1, 2019, and March 1, 2020, which was recorded as lease termination costs in the third quarter of 2019. The Company entered into a temporary month-to-month lease as of September 1, 2019 for office space located at 830 Morris Turnpike, Short Hills, NJ 07078 until the Company entered into a new lease for permanent office space. This lease was terminated on May 31, 2020.

Effective March 5, 2020, the Company entered into a sublease for approximately 11,200 square feet of office space located at 25B Vreeland Road, Suite 300, Florham Park, NJ. The sublease commenced on May 1, 2020 and will continue for a term of forty (40) months with an option to renew through October 31, 2027. As of September 30, 2021, there are twenty-three (23) months remaining in the lease term. Upon inception of the lease, the Company recognized approximately $0.7 million of a ROU asset and operating lease liabilities. The discount rate used to measure the operating lease liability as of May 1, 2020 was 9.15%. Throughout the period described above the Company has maintained, and continues to maintain, a month-to-month lease for its research facilities at the Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs located at 303A College Road E, Princeton NJ, 08540.

Supplemental cash flow information related to operating leases is as follows:

	As of September 30,
	2021		2020
Cash paid for operating lease liabilities	$	127,804	$	62,597
Right-of use assets recorded in exchange for lease obligations	$	–	$	638,831

Maturity of the Company’s operating lease liability is as follows:

Year ended December 31,
2021 (remaining three months)	$	43,035
2022		294,986
2023		239,469
2024		–
2025 and after		–
Total future minimum lease payments		577,490
Less imputed interest		(55,797	)
	$	521,693