Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

16. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

As discussed in Note 9, the Company leases its facility from 1895 Management, Ltd., a New York corporation controlled by an entity affiliated with the Company’s chairman and major stockholder of the Company. Rent expense incurred under this operating lease was $42,000 for each of the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018.

As discussed in Note 7, in November 2017, we entered into a research collaboration and license option agreement with Surface to identify and select antibodies against two target antigens, using our proprietary technology as described in the agreement. J. Jeffrey Goater, a member of our board of directors, served as the Chief Business Officer of Surface at that time, and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Surface.The Company received $93,877 and $69,172 service fee payments for work conducted under the agreement for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.