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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Contractors [Abstract]  
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

9. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

The Company recognizes revenue from U.S. and European Union (E.U.) government research contracts during the period in which the related expenditures are incurred and presents revenue and related expenses gross in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. In the periods presented, substantially all of the revenue generated by the Company was derived from government research contracts.

The following table summarizes the revenue for each of our contracts with the U.S. and E.U. governments for each of the periods indicated:

 

     For the Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2014      2013  
     (in thousands)  

July 2010 Contract (Ebola and Marburg IV)

   $ 4,064       $ 2,614   

August 2012 Contract (Intramuscular)

     —           1,806   

November 2012 SKIP-NMD Agreement (DMD)

     1,365         54   

July 2013 Children’s National Medical Center (DMD)

     659         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 6,088       $ 4,474  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

July 2010 Contract (Ebola and Marburg Intravenous administration)

In July 2010, the Company was awarded the Department of Defense (“DoD”) contract managed by its Joint Project Manager Medical Countermeasure Systems (“JPM-MCS”) program for the advanced development of its hemorrhagic fever virus therapeutic candidates, AVI-6002 and AVI-6003, against the Ebola and Marburg viruses, respectively. In February 2012, the Company announced that it received permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) to proceed with a single oligomer from AVI-7288, one of the two components that make up AVI-6003, as the lead product candidate against Marburg virus infection. In August 2012, the Company received a stop-work order related to the Ebola virus portion of the contract and, in October 2012, the DoD terminated the Ebola portion of the contract for the convenience of the government due to government funding constraints.

The remaining Marburg portion of the contract is structured into four segments and has an aggregate remaining period of performance spanning approximately four years if DoD exercises its options for all segments. Activities under the first segment began in July 2010 and include preclinical studies and Phase I studies in healthy volunteers. In February 2014, the Company announced positive safety results from the Phase I multiple ascending dose study of AVI-7288.

After completion of the first segment, DoD has the option to proceed to the next segment. If DoD exercises its options for segments II, III and IV, the Company’s contract activities would include all clinical and licensure activities necessary to obtain FDA regulatory approval for the therapeutic candidate against the Marburg virus. The funding for segments II, III and IV of the Marburg virus portion of the contract is estimated to be approximately $84.4 million.

During the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company recognized $4.1 million and $2.6 million as revenue under this agreement, respectively.

August 2012 Agreement (Intramuscular)

In August 2012, the Company was awarded a contract from the JPM-MCS program. The contract was for approximately $3.9 million to evaluate the feasibility of an intramuscular route of administration using AVI-7288, the Company’s candidate for treatment of Marburg virus. The period of performance for this contract concluded in the third quarter of 2013. No revenue was recognized under this agreement for the three months ended March 31, 2014. The Company recognized $1.8 million as revenue under this agreement for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

European Union SKIP-NMD Agreement (DMD)

In November 2012, the Company entered into an agreement for a collaborative research project partially funded by the E.U. Health Innovation. The agreement provides for approximately $2.5 million for research in certain development and study related activities for a DMD therapeutic and is expected to last approximately three years. During the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company recognized $1.4 million and less than $0.1 million as revenue under this agreement, respectively. Revenue under this agreement has been fully recognized as March 31, 2014.

July 2013 Children’s National Medical Center (“CNMC”) Agreement (DMD)

In July 2013, the Company entered into an agreement totaling $1.3 million to provide a drug product to CNMC to conduct research related to the Company’s DMD program. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recognized $ 0.7 million as revenue under the agreement. Revenue under this agreement has been fully recognized as March 31, 2014.