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Collaboration Agreement
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Collaboration Arrangement Disclosure [Abstract]  
Collaboration Agreement
Collaboration Agreement
On May 28, 2013, the Company entered into the collaboration and license agreement (the "Collaboration and License Agreement") with ThromboGenics N.V. ("ThromboGenics"). Under the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company and ThromboGenics collaborated to seek to identify protein or peptide therapeutics that directly modulate any of a specified set of targets in a novel pathway in retinal disease. In connection with the Collaboration and License Agreement, ThromboGenics paid the Company an upfront technology licensing fee of $1.75 million and paid the Company to perform activities under the Collaboration and License Agreement at a set rate per full-time equivalent person working on collaboration activities. The initial research term concluded in November 2015, however it was amended at that time to extend the performance period into 2016. The Collaboration and License Agreement provides for potential future payments to the Company upon achievement of specified preclinical, clinical and regulatory milestones with respect to collaboration products and royalties on sales of collaboration products by ThromboGenics, its affiliates or sublicensees. However, as there have not been any collaboration products identified whose modulation of any of the targets has been confirmed in the course of the research conducted under the Collaboration and License Agreement, none of these milestones or royalties are expected to be payable. On August 1, 2016, the Company received notice from ThromboGenics of ThromboGenics’s termination, effective as of October 31, 2016, of the Collaboration and License Agreement.
The Company accounts for this agreement pursuant to ASC Topic 605-25, Revenue Recognition - Multiple Element Arrangements, or ASC 605-25. The Company was recognizing the arrangement consideration using the proportional performance method, by which the amounts are recognized in proportion to the costs incurred based on full time equivalent personnel efforts. Subsequent to the amendment in November 2015, the Company is recognizing revenue on a straight-line basis over the remaining performance period. For the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2016, the Company recognized $0.2 million and 0.4 million included in revenue in the consolidated statement of operations. No further amounts are expected to be recognized in the future. The costs incurred by the Company related to the research activities are recorded as research and development expense in the statement of operations and comprehensive loss.