Asset Acquisition and License Agreements	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Research And Development [Abstract]
Asset Acquisition and License Agreements	7. Asset Acquisition and License Agreements Agreement with Early Development Stage Company (“Development Partner”) In December 2015, we entered into an agreement with an early development stage limited liability company to explore a novel approach to develop a drug in the field of hypercholesterolemia. We plan to advance the program in collaboration with the Development Partner through an agreed-upon development plan and are obligated to fund the development effort over the initial term of the arrangement expected to be through August 2016. We determined that the Development Partner is and continues to be a variable interest entity and that we hold a variable interest in the Development Partner’s intellectual property assets and the related potential future product candidates these assets may produce. Due to the absence of other significant development programs at the Development Partner, we concluded that the variable interest was in the entity as a whole and not the intellectual property assets. Given the stage of development, we continued to conclude that Development Partner was considered not to be a business as they lacked the processes required to generate outputs. As we are primarily funding and have the power to unilaterally amend the development plan during the initial term and thus control those activities most significant to the Development Partner, we are considered to be the primary beneficiary of the Development Partner. Accordingly, the Development Partner is subject to consolidation and we have consolidated the financial statements of the Development Partner since inception of the agreement on December 1, 2015 by (a) eliminating all intercompany balances and transactions; (b) allocating loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest in the Development Partner to net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest in our consolidated statement of operations and reflecting noncontrolling interest on our consolidated balance sheet. Our interest in the Development Partner is limited to the development of the intellectual property asset. The upfront payment of $500,000 and the obligation to fund the development plan represent our maximum exposure to loss under the agreement. At the inception of the agreement, the identifiable assets, assumed liabilities and non-controlling interest of the Development Partner were recorded at their estimated fair value upon the initial consolidation of the Development Partner, including the in-process research and development intangible asset. We estimated the fair value of these indefinite lived intangible assets to be $3.2 million and the noncontrolling interest to be $2.9 million. The fair value was estimated using present-value models on potential contingent milestones and royalty payments, based on assumptions regarding the probability of achieving the development milestones, estimate of time to develop the drug candidate, estimates of future cash flows from potential product sales and assumptions regarding the appropriate discount rate. As of June 30, 2016, we have not provided financial or other support to the Development Partner that was not previously contracted or required. We recorded the Development Partner’s $145,000 of cash as restricted cash because (a) we do not have any interest in or control over Development Partner's cash and (b) the agreement does not provide for these assets to be used for the development of the intellectual property assets developed pursuant to this agreement. Also, as we are funding the development effort since inception of the arrangement, we have not allocated any net loss to the noncontrolling interest.

7. Asset Acquisition and License Agreements

Agreement with Early Development Stage Company (“Development Partner”)

In December 2015, we entered into an agreement with an early development stage limited liability company to explore a novel approach to develop a drug in the field of hypercholesterolemia. We plan to advance the program in collaboration with the Development Partner through an agreed-upon development plan and are obligated to fund the development effort over the initial term of the arrangement expected to be through August 2016.

We determined that the Development Partner is and continues to be a variable interest entity and that we hold a variable interest in the Development Partner’s intellectual property assets and the related potential future product candidates these assets may produce. Due to the absence of other significant development programs at the Development Partner, we concluded that the variable interest was in the entity as a whole and not the intellectual property assets. Given the stage of development, we continued to conclude that Development Partner was considered not to be a business as they lacked the processes required to generate outputs.

As we are primarily funding and have the power to unilaterally amend the development plan during the initial term and thus control those activities most significant to the Development Partner, we are considered to be the primary beneficiary of the Development Partner. Accordingly, the Development Partner is subject to consolidation and we have consolidated the financial statements of the Development Partner since inception of the agreement on December 1, 2015 by (a) eliminating all intercompany balances and transactions; (b) allocating loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest in the Development Partner to net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest in our consolidated statement of operations and reflecting noncontrolling interest on our consolidated balance sheet. Our interest in the Development Partner is limited to the development of the intellectual property asset. The upfront payment of $500,000 and the obligation to fund the development plan represent our maximum exposure to loss under the agreement.

At the inception of the agreement, the identifiable assets, assumed liabilities and non-controlling interest of the Development Partner were recorded at their estimated fair value upon the initial consolidation of the Development Partner, including the in-process research and development intangible asset. We estimated the fair value of these indefinite lived intangible assets to be $3.2 million and the noncontrolling interest to be $2.9 million. The fair value was estimated using present-value models on potential contingent milestones and royalty payments, based on assumptions regarding the probability of achieving the development milestones, estimate of time to develop the drug candidate, estimates of future cash flows from potential product sales and assumptions regarding the appropriate discount rate.

As of June 30, 2016, we have not provided financial or other support to the Development Partner that was not previously contracted or required. We recorded the Development Partner’s $145,000 of cash as restricted cash because (a) we do not have any interest in or control over Development Partner's cash and (b) the agreement does not provide for these assets to be used for the development of the intellectual property assets developed pursuant to this agreement. Also, as we are funding the development effort since inception of the arrangement, we have not allocated any net loss to the noncontrolling interest.