Related Party Transactions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Related Party Transactions

Related Party Transactions

11.  Related Party Transactions

In connection with the initial public offering of the Company’s common stock, Sanofi purchased 5,217,391 shares of the Company’s common stock in April 2012.

In June 2012, the Company entered into a Right of Review Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Sanofi pursuant to which, if the Company determines to enter into negotiations with a third party regarding any license, option, collaboration, joint venture or similar transaction involving any therapeutic or companion diagnostic product candidate in the Company’s pipeline (an “Opportunity”), the Company will notify Sanofi of such Opportunity. Following such notice, Sanofi will have a specified period of time to determine whether to exercise an additional right to exclusively negotiate an agreement with the Company with respect to such Opportunity for a specified period of time. The Agreement terminates on April 1, 2017.