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Acquisitions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Acquisitions Acquisitions
Acquisition of Celenex
In September 2018, the Company expanded its pipeline by acquiring the rights and related intellectual property of ten gene therapy programs through its acquisition of Celenex, Inc., ("Celenex"). Celenex is a private, clinical stage gene therapy company whose lead programs are ten gene therapy programs including CLN6 and CLN3, which are in clinical stage, and several programs in pre-clinical stage. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, the Company agreed to pay up to an additional $10 million in connection with the achievement of certain development milestones, $220 million in connection with the achievement of certain regulatory approval milestones across multiple programs and up to $75 million in tiered sales milestone payments. Celenex has an exclusive license agreement with Nationwide Children’s Hospital ("Nationwide Children’s"). Under this license agreement, Nationwide Children’s is eligible to receive development and sales-based milestones of up to $7.8 million for each product.
The Company evaluated the Celenex transaction and concluded that the transaction did not meet the definition of a business and was an asset acquisition. Given the fact that the license has no alternative future use, the $100 million upfront payment was expensed to research and development expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2018.