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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
8. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

We have evaluated subsequent events for recognition or disclosure through the time of filing these consolidated financial statements on Form 10-Q with the SEC on August 11, 2014.

On July 10, 2014, the Company submitted its final study report of “A Double Blind Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Collagenase Clostridum Histolyticum for the Treatment of Canine Lipoma” to Auxilium for review.  Auxilium has 120 days to determine whether to exercise its additional indication option for canine lipoma under the Company’s Auxilium Agreement.

On July 31, 2014, the Company is entitled to receive 5% of the $10 million regulatory milestone payment that Auxilium will receive from its partner Asahi for the successful submission of a regulatory application to the Japanese Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) for XIAFLEX® for the treatment of Dupuytren's contracture.

On August 5, 2014, the Company announced the appointment of Max Link, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors, effective August 4, 2014, with a term of office expiring and to be renewed at the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. We also announced that as of August 15, 2014, Henry G. Morgan will retire from the Board of Directors after 24 years of service but will continue to act in a consulting capacity. Max Link will serve as Chairman of the Compensation Committee and as the financial expert on the Audit Committee  following Henry Morgan’s  retirement.

On August 7, 2014, the Audit Committee dismissed Tabriztchi & CO., CPA, P.C. as its independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately following its completion of its review of the quarter ended June 30, 2014, and the Audit Committee engaged Friedman LLP as its new independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2014 and effective immediately and for the quarter ending September 30, 2014.  This change in auditors was the result of the Company’s Audit Committee recently completing a competitive process to determine what audit firm would serve as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm beginning with the quarter ended September 30, 2014.

On August 8, 2014, the Company announced that it has injected the first patient in its placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of CCH for the treatment of lipoma. The Company expects to complete patient enrollment in this trial during the first quarter of 2015. The Phase 2 clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety and efficacy of CCH for the treatment of lipoma. Lipomas are encapsulated benign fatty tumors often detected as bulges under the skin. The study will be conducted at two centers in the U.S. and is expected to enroll 20 adult men and women presenting with at least two benign lipomas of similar size. Subjects will be randomized to have two lipomas treated in immediate succession; one with CCH and one with placebo.