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

2. Collaboration Agreement

 

AgonOx, Inc. (“AgonOx”)

 

In February 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 agreed to reimburse AgonOx up to $4,000,000 in expenses incurred to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial of PH-762 treated DP TIL in patients 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 consolidated 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 $1,115,000 and $130,000 of expense in connection with these efforts during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

 

There is approximately $2,757,000 of remaining costs not yet incurred under the Clinical Co-Development Agreement as of December 31, 2023.