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REVENUE
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
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(13) REVENUE

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS)

        In May 2014, the Company entered into a clinical trial collaboration with BMS to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of varlilumab and Opdivo®, BMS's PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, in a Phase 1/2 study. Under the terms of this clinical trial collaboration, BMS made a one-time payment to the Company of $5.0 million and BMS and the Company amended the terms of the Company's existing license agreement with Medarex (a subsidiary of BMS) related to the Company's CD27 program whereby certain future milestone payments were waived and future royalty rates were reduced that may have been due from the Company to Medarex. In return, BMS was granted a time-limited right of first negotiation if the Company wishes to out-license varlilumab. The companies also agreed to work exclusively with each other to explore anti-PD-1 antagonist antibody and anti-CD27 agonist antibody combination regimens. The clinical trial collaboration provides that the companies will share development costs and that the Company will be responsible for conducting the ongoing Phase 1/2 study.

        The Company has determined that its performance obligations under the BMS agreement, which primarily include performing research and development, supplying varlilumab and participating in the joint development committee, should be accounted for as a single unit of accounting and estimated that its performance period under the BMS agreement would be 5 years. Accordingly, the $5.0 million up-front payment was initially recorded as deferred revenue and is being recognized as revenue on a straight-line basis over the estimated 5-year performance period using the Contingency Adjusted Performance Model ("CAPM"). The BMS agreement also provides for BMS to reimburse the Company for 50% of the external costs incurred by the Company in connection with the clinical trial. These BMS payments are being recognized as revenue using the CAPM. The Company recorded $1.3 million and $0.7 million in revenue related to the BMS agreement during the year ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Rockefeller University (Rockefeller)

        In September 2013, the Company entered into an agreement, as amended, with Rockefeller pursuant to which the Company performs research and development services for Rockefeller. The Company bills Rockefeller quarterly for actual time and direct costs incurred and records those amounts to revenue in the quarter the services are performed. The Company recorded $3.4 million, $2.7 million and $1.4 million in revenue related to the Rockefeller agreement during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

GlaxoSmithKline plc (Glaxo)

        In 1997, the Company licensed its oral rotavirus strain to Glaxo and Glaxo assumed responsibility for all subsequent clinical trials and all other development activities. The Company's licensed-in the rotavirus strain that was used to develop Glaxo's Rotarix rotavirus vaccine in 1995 and owed a license fee of 30% to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ("CCH") on net royalties received from Glaxo. In May 2005, the Company entered into an agreement whereby an affiliate of Paul Royalty Fund II, L.P. ("PRF") purchased a 70% interest in the net royalties the Company received on worldwide sales of Rotarix. In December 2012, the Glaxo agreement expired automatically upon the expiration of the last relevant patent right covered by the Glaxo agreement. The Company's retained interests in Rotarix net royalties which were not sold to PRF are recorded as product royalty revenue and a corresponding amount that is payable to CCH is recorded as royalty expense. Product royalty revenue and royalty expense related to the Company's retained interest in Rotarix was $2.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2013.