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Agreed upon price for the exchange of the underlying asset.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (e)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=36462937&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Convertible Promissory Notes and Other Notes Payable (Details 4) - $ / shares					1 Months Ended		2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 25, 2016	Dec. 11, 2015	Nov. 23, 2015	Sep. 02, 2015	Jan. 31, 2015	Apr. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2016	Nov. 11, 2015
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)							$ 8.75	$ 8.75
Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)	$ 8.00	$ 5.00	$ 6.75	$ 9.11	$ 8.00				$ 6.50
Exercise price per share	$ 8.00	$ 7.00	$ 7.00	$ 9.25	$ 10.00
Risk-free interest rate	1.39%	1.16%	1.70%	1.52%
Contractual term in years	5 years	3 years	5 years	5 years
Volatility	78.96%	77.88%	77.95%	77.20%
Dividend rate	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share	$ 5.08	$ 2.12	$ 4.22	$ 5.68
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						$ 9.40
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						9.40
Exercise price per share						$ 10.00
Risk-free interest rate						1.59%
Contractual term in years						5 years
Volatility						80.30%
Dividend rate						0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share						$ 5.95
10% Promissory Note [Member] \| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Exercise price per share						$ 10.00
Pre-Modification [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)							8.25	8.25
Exercise price per share							$ 12.99	12.99
Risk-free interest rate							0.28%
Contractual term in years							1 month 24 days
Volatility							91.20%
Dividend rate							0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share							$ 0.30	0.30
Pre-Modification [Member] \| 10% Promissory Note [Member] \| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)							16.00	16.00
Exercise price per share							10.00	$ 10.00
Risk-free interest rate								1.34%
Contractual term in years								3 years 9 months 4 days
Volatility								76.30%
Dividend rate								0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share							10.48	$ 10.48
Post-Modification [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)							8.25	8.25
Exercise price per share							$ 12.99	12.99
Risk-free interest rate							0.36%
Contractual term in years							4 months 24 days
Volatility							91.20%
Dividend rate							0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share							$ 0.80	0.80
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Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)							16.00	16.00
Exercise price per share							7.00	$ 7.00
Risk-free interest rate								1.34%
Contractual term in years								3 years 9 months 4 days
Volatility								76.30%
Dividend rate								0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share							$ 11.6	$ 11.6