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Commitments and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

7. Commitments and Contingencies

Leases

The Company leases office space pursuant to a month-to month lease and as such categorizes all of its lease expense as short-term lease cost. During each of the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded short-term lease costs of less than $0.1 million.

Revenue share

The Company has revenue sharing agreements with Deerfield Healthcare Innovations Fund, L.P. and Deerfield Private Design Fund, IV, L.P. (collectively, “Deerfield”), each an investor in the Company, and the Company’s scientific founder to pay each of Deerfield and the scientific founder a low single digit percentage rate of net sales of certain commercial products. The payment obligation expires on the later of 12 years from the first commercial sale in a country or the expiration of the last-to-expire patent in that country for both Deerfield and the Company’s scientific founder. The Company accounts for this liability at fair value with changes recognized in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. Given the early-stage nature of the underlying technology and inherent risks associated with obtaining regulatory approval and achieving commercialization, the Company ascribed no value to either of the revenue sharing agreements at inception and at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022. The Company currently does not have any net sales and as a result has paid no amounts under these agreements nor has the Company accrued any liability as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 under these agreements.

Indemnification agreements

In the ordinary course of business, the Company may provide indemnification of varying scope and terms to vendors, lessors, contract research organizations, business partners and other parties with respect to certain matters including, but not limited to, losses arising out of breach of such agreements or from intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties. In addition, the Company has entered into indemnification agreements with members of its board of directors and its executive officers that will require the Company, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification agreements is, in many cases, unlimited. The Company has not incurred any material costs as a result of such indemnifications and is not currently aware of any indemnification claims.