The Company’s 2018 Plan provided for the Company to issue restricted stock, restricted stock units, incentive stock options, and non-statutory stock options and other stock-based awards to employees, officers, members of the Board, consultants and advisors of the Company. The 2018 Plan was most recently amended in July 2020.

At September 30, 2020, the Company had granted 6,715,415 shares of common stock under the 2018 Plan, including an aggregate of 98,643 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options under the 2018 Plan. No shares remained available for future issuance under the 2018 Plan. Any options or awards outstanding under the 2018 Plan remain outstanding and effective.

On July 2, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted and in July 2020 the stockholders approved the 2020 Stock Option and Grant Plan (the “2020 Plan”) which became effective on July 28, 2020, the date immediately prior to the date on which the registration statement related to the IPO was declared effective, and as a result no further awards will be made under the 2018 Plan thereafter. Initially, the aggregate number of shares of our common stock that may be issued pursuant to stock awards under the 2020 Plan will be 8,008,734 shares. The number of shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under the 2020 Plan shall be cumulatively increased on January 1, 2021 and each January 1 thereafter by 5% of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding on December 31 of the preceding calendar year or a lesser number of shares determined by our board of directors. Unless our board of directors elects not to increase the number of shares available for future grant each year, our stockholders may experience additional dilution, which could cause our stock price to fall.

At September 30, 2020, there were an aggregate of 3,563,262 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options under the 2020 Plan and 107,188 shares of restricted common stock granted under the 2020 Plan. Additionally, there were an aggregate of 4,338,284 shares reserved for future issuance under the 2020 Plan.

The Company granted 171,204 and 2,191,272 shares of restricted common stock to employees during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Under the 2018 Plan the Company granted restricted common stock awards with both a service and performance condition. Stock compensation is recognized over the vesting period based on the probability of achievement of the performance condition. The performance condition was based on the Company’s completion of its IPO, which was consummated on August 3, 2020. The awards earned upon satisfaction of the performance condition will become fully vested on the fourth anniversary of the vesting commencement date of the award (i.e. continued service is required beyond the satisfaction of the performance condition prior to vesting). As of September 30, 2020, the performance condition was met and compensation expense of $1.6 million related to these performance based awards has been recorded.

The following table summarizes restricted common stock activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2020:

	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested as of January 1, 2020		4,403,148		$	1.87
Granted		171,204			13.17
Forfeited		(6,710	)		3.01
Vested		(1,013,154	)		1.88
Unvested as of September 30, 2020		3,554,488		$	2.41

At September 30, 2020, there was $7.2 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation cost related to the restricted stock, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.8 years.

The Company granted 3,616,945 stock options during the nine months ended September 30, 2020. They vest over a four-year period and have a 10-year contractual term. There were no stock options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2019.

The following table summarizes stock option activity (in thousands, except share and per share data):

	Stock Options
	Shares		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Weighted Average Contractual Life (in years)		Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Options outstanding as of January 1, 2020		44,960	$	3.01		9.5		—
Granted		3,616,945		16.89
Exercised		—		—
Forfeited		—		—
Options outstanding as of September 30, 2020		3,661,905	$	16.72		9.8	$	39,553
Options vested and exercisable at September 30, 2020		14,048	$	3.01		9.0	$	344

The aggregate intrinsic value of options is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the stock options and the fair value of the Company’s common stock for those stock options that had exercise prices lower than the fair value of the common stock as of the end of the period.

The weighted-average grant date fair value of the Company’s stock options granted during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 was $13.01 and $12.86, respectively.

At September 30, 2020, there was $44.3 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to unvested stock options, which is being recognized over a period of 3.72 years.

The fair value was estimated on the date of grant using the Black Scholes option-pricing model, with the following assumptions:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2020			Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
Expected term (in years)		6.08			6.08
Expected volatility		95.2	%		95.1	%
Risk-free interest rate		0.35	%		0.35	%
Expected dividend yield		—			—
Fair value of common stock	$	13.01		$	12.86

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2020		2019		2020		2019
Research and development	$	3,092	$	174	$	3,400	$	356
General and administrative		768		422		1,598		1,912
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	3,860	$	596	$	4,998	$	2,268

In July 2020, the 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2020 ESPP”) was also adopted by the Board of Directors and approved by the stockholders. The purpose of the 2020 ESPP is to provide eligible employees of the Company and other designated companies, with opportunities to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share. 611,354 shares of common stock in the aggregate have been approved and reserved for this purpose, plus on January 1, 2021 and each January 1 thereafter until January 1, 2030, the number of shares of common stock reserved and available for issuance under the Plan shall be cumulatively increased by the least of (i) 1,222,707 shares of common stock, (ii) 1% of the number of shares of common stock issued and outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31, and (iii) such number of shares of common stock as determined by the Administrator.