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Collaboration Agreement
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Collaboration Agreement

2. Collaboration Agreement

 

AgonOx, Inc. (“AgonOx”)

 

In March 2021, the Company entered into a clinical co-development collaboration agreement (the “Clinical Co-Development Agreement”) with AgonOx, a private company developing a pipeline of novel immunotherapy drugs targeting key regulators of the immune response to cancer. Under the Clinical Co-Development Agreement, Phio and AgonOx are working to develop a T cell-based therapy using the Company’s lead product candidate, PH-762, and AgonOx’s “double positive” tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (“DP TIL”) technology. Per the terms of the Clinical Co-Development Agreement, the Company committed to provide financial support for development costs of up to $4,000,000 to AgonOx for expenses incurred to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial of PH-762 treated DP TIL in subjects with advanced melanoma and other advanced solid tumors.

 

The Company will recognize its share of costs arising from research and development activities performed by AgonOx in the Company’s financial statements in the period AgonOx incurs such expense. Phio will be entitled to certain future development milestones and low single-digit sales-based royalty payments from AgonOx’s licensing of its DP TIL technology.

 

The Company recognized approximately $119,000 of expense in connection with these efforts during the three months ended March 31, 2023. No expense under the Clinical Co-Development Agreement was recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2022.