Loan facility	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]
Loan facility	4. Loan facility On October 23, 2013, AQXP Canada entered into a term loan facility with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) for up to $4,000, of which $2,500 was received on October 30, 2013. In addition to principal, interest and other related payments due to SVB, Aquinox USA and AQXP Canada issued SVB warrants at $10.56 per warrant to purchase 11,363 shares of Series C preferred stock and a corresponding number of Canadian special voting shares of AQXP Canada. Following the completion of the IPO, the warrants are exercisable for 11,363 shares of common stock. These warrants expire in 2023. On March 28, 2014, AQXP Canada made a cash payment of $2,610 to fully repay the amount outstanding under the term loan facility. The repayment was accounted for as an extinguishment of debt and the loss on extinguishment of $214 along with the prepayment penalty, repayment fee and accrued interest were recorded within bank charges and financing costs.

Loan facility

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2015

4. Loan facility

On October 23, 2013, AQXP Canada entered into a term loan facility with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) for up to $4,000, of which $2,500 was received on October 30, 2013. In addition to principal, interest and other related payments due to SVB, Aquinox USA and AQXP Canada issued SVB warrants at $10.56 per warrant to purchase 11,363 shares of Series C preferred stock and a corresponding number of Canadian special voting shares of AQXP Canada. Following the completion of the IPO, the warrants are exercisable for 11,363 shares of common stock. These warrants expire in 2023.

On March 28, 2014, AQXP Canada made a cash payment of $2,610 to fully repay the amount outstanding under the term loan facility. The repayment was accounted for as an extinguishment of debt and the loss on extinguishment of $214 along with the prepayment penalty, repayment fee and accrued interest were recorded within bank charges and financing costs.