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For an unclassified balance sheet, amounts due from related parties including affiliates, employees, joint ventures, officers and stockholders, immediate families thereof, and pension funds.

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The profit or loss on sales of previously unissued stock by subsidiaries or equity investees made to investors outside the consolidated group that is not reported as operating income. Represents the difference in the parent company's carrying amount of the equity interest in the subsidiary or equity investee immediately before and after the transaction.

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Revenue earned during the period relating to consideration received from another party for the right to use, but not own, certain of the entity's intangible assets. Licensing arrangements include, but are not limited to, rights to use a patent, copyright, technology, manufacturing process, software or trademark. Licensing fees are generally, but not always, fixed as to amount and not dependent upon the revenue generated by the licensing party. An entity may receive licensing fees for licenses that also generate royalty payments to the entity.

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The cash inflow associated with the sale of equity method investments, which are investments in joint ventures and entities in which the entity has an equity ownership interest normally of 20 to 50 percent and exercises significant influence.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The number of shares issued or sold by the subsidiary or equity method investee per stock transaction.

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Per share amount received by subsidiary or equity investee for each share of common stock issued or sold in the stock transaction.

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Helsinn License Agreement - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)			3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Aug. 16, 2016	Aug. 05, 2016	Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2017	Aug. 31, 2016
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
License revenue			$ 3,779,000	$ 20,880,000
Potential Regulatory and Sales-Based Milestone Payment \| Maximum
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Milestone payment receivable amount					$ 444,000,000
Helsinn License Agreement \| Helsinn \| Up Front Payment
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Compensation receivable for grant of rights					$ 15,000,000
Helsinn License Agreement \| Helsinn \| Balance Payment
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Compensation receivable for grant of rights			$ 5,000,000	$ 5,000,000
Helsinn Equity Agreement \| Helsinn Investment Fund SA
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Proceeds from sale of equity method investment		$ 5,000,000
Volume weighted average price period		10 days
Volume weighted average price period beginning date		Aug. 01, 2016
Volume weighted average price period ending date		Aug. 12, 2016
Sale of stock, number of common stock issued	2,616,431
Sale of common stock, price per share		$ 1.911
Closing price of common stock		$ 1.61
Revenue recognized		$ 800,000