GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND RELATED REVENUE RECOGNITION

6 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND RELATED REVENUE RECOGNITION

10. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND RELATED REVENUE RECOGNITION

We entered into the following contract with the National Cancer Institute, or NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, in September 2019:

Phase 2 Melanoma Cancer Contract

On September 12, 2019, the NCI awarded to us an SBIR Phase II Award Contract, for NIH/NCI Topic 359, entitled “A Device Prototype for Isolation of Melanoma Exosomes for Diagnostics and Treatment Monitoring”, or the Award Contract. The Award Contract amount is $1,860,561 and, as amended, ran for the period from September 16, 2019 through September 15, 2022.

The work performed pursuant to this Award Contract was focused on melanoma exosomes. This work followed from our completion of a Phase I contract for the Topic 359 solicitation that ran from September 2017 through June 2018, as described below. Following on the Phase I work, the deliverables in the Phase II program involved the design and testing of a pre-commercial prototype of a more advanced version of the exosome isolation platform.

We did not record government contract revenue on the Phase 2 Melanoma Cancer Contract in the three and six month periods ended September 30, 2022. We recorded $114,849 and $229,698 of government contract revenue on the Phase 2 Melanoma Cancer Contract in the three and six month periods ended September 30, 2021, respectively. We recorded the invoices related to the September 30, 2022 period as deferred revenue, since we fell short of certain milestones related to those periods.

The contract ended on September 15, 2022 and we presented the required final report to the NCI. Once the NCI completes the close out review of the contract, we expect to recognize as revenue the $574,245 currently recorded as deferred revenue on our September 30, 2022 balance sheet.

Subaward with University of Pittsburgh

In December 2020, we entered into a cost reimbursable subaward arrangement with the University of Pittsburgh in connection with an NIH contract entitled “Depleting Exosomes to Improve Responses to Immune Therapy in HNNCC.” Our share of the award was $256,750. We did not record revenue related to this subaward in the three and six month periods ended September 30, 2022. We recorded $17,117 and $34,234 of revenue related to this subaward in the three and six month periods ended September 30, 2021, respectively.

In October 2022, we agreed with the University of Pittsburgh to terminate the subaward arrangement, effective as of November 10, 2022, since it related to our clinical trial in head and neck cancer in which the University of Pittsburgh was unable to recruit patients.