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Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

13. Commitments and Contingencies

Intellectual Property License

The Company has a Collaboration and License Agreement with D. E. Shaw Research, LLC (“D. E. Shaw Research”), which held 9,999,999 shares of Series A preferred stock and 1,557,875 shares of Series C preferred stock at December 31, 2019. Upon the IPO these shares were converted into 3,281,253 shares of common stock, which are outstanding at December 31, 2020. The agreement provides that the parties will jointly conduct research efforts with the goal of identifying and developing product candidates. The original term of the agreement was three years and required the Company to pay an annual fee of $1,000. On June 15, 2020, the Company and D. E. Shaw Research agreed to amend the Collaboration and License Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Collaboration and License Agreement”). The Amended and Restated Collaboration and License Agreement extended the term of the agreement to August 16, 2025 and increased the annual fee from $1,000 to $7,900. The Amended and Restated Collaboration and License Agreement automatically renews for successive one year periods unless either party provides at least one year notice of non-renewal, and the annual fee during each of the one year renewal terms is subject to the mutual agreement of the Company and D. E. Shaw Research.

The Company is obligated to pay potential development milestone payments under the terms of the agreement up to $7,300 per target, plus sales milestones and royalties, upon the achievement of certain specified contingent events. Such payments for achievement of development and regulatory milestones total up to $7,250 in the aggregate for each of the first three products the Company develops, and up to $6,250 in the aggregate for each product the Company develops after the first three. The Company assessed the milestone and royalty events through December 31, 2020 and concluded $1,500 was due to D.E. Shaw related to the execution of the Genentech Agreement in December 2020. The Company concluded no such payments were due as of December 31, 2019. The Company recorded research and development expense of $6,376 and $1,500 under this agreement for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. At December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had an accrued expense balance to D. E. Shaw Research of approximately $1,500 and $372, respectively, on its balance sheets.

Other Research Arrangements

The Company has certain other research and license arrangements with third-parties, which provide the Company with research services with the goal of identifying and developing product candidates. The Company is obligated to pay development milestone payments for up to four targets, each in the range of $4,000 to $7,000 upon the achievement of certain specified contingent events. The Company assessed the milestones at December 31, 2020 and 2019 and concluded no such milestone payments were due. The Company incurred approximately $2,704 and $3,493 of research and development expense under these agreements in the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.