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Income Taxes (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Components of the Company's Deferred Tax Assets (Liabilities) | The significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets (liabilities) were as follows:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Deferred income tax assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Federal U.S. net operating loss carryforward |  | $ | 36,561,195 |  |  | $ | 35,330,167 |
State net operating loss carryforward |  |  | 3,315,514 |  |  |  | 3,521,722 |
Research and development credit, net |  |  | 3,785,612 |  |  |  | 2,777,899 |
Orphan drug credit, net |  |  | 19,883,076 |  |  |  | 19,039,613 |
Deferred rent |  |  | 5,132,458 |  |  |  | 5,218,002 |
Deferred revenue |  |  | 8,216,695 |  |  |  | 9,379,064 |
Depreciation |  |  | 1,438,477 |  |  |  | 1,247,772 |
Other |  |  | 1,438,870 |  |  |  | 1,575,782 |
Gross deferred income tax assets |  |  | 79,771,897 |  |  |  | 78,090,021 |
Valuation allowance |  |  | (79,376,945 | ) |  |  | (78,090,021 | )
Net deferred income tax assets |  |  | 394,952 |  |  |  | — |
Deferred income tax liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other |  |  | (394,952 | ) |  |  | — |
Gross deferred income tax liabilities |  |  | (394,952 | ) |  |  | — |
Net deferred income tax asset/(liability) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
Reconciliation of Reported Estimated Income Tax Benefit | The reconciliation of the reported estimated income tax benefit to the amount that would result by applying the U.S. federal statutory tax rate to the net income is as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
United States federal tax at statutory rate |  | $ | (91,293 | ) |  | $ | 2,926,615 |  |  | $ | 2,350,992 |
State taxes (net of federal benefit) |  |  | 609,476 |  |  |  | 1,460,289 |  |  |  | 1,480,185 |
Deferred income tax adjustments |  |  | (855,130 | ) |  |  | (512,375 | ) |  |  | — |
Deferred state blended rate adjustments |  |  | (344,178 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Research credit, net |  |  | (225,605 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Orphan drug credit, net |  |  | (843,463 | ) |  |  | (4,895,671 | ) |  |  | (7,056,607 | )
Other permanent items |  |  | 2,931 |  |  |  | 7,627 |  |  |  | 4,696 |
Equity-based compensation |  |  | 241,467 |  |  |  | 279,165 |  |  |  | 725,811 |
Fair value adjustment of preferred stock warrant liability |  |  | 218,872 |  |  |  | (52,743 | ) |  |  | (496,208 | )
Change in valuation allowance |  |  | 1,286,923 |  |  |  | 787,093 |  |  |  | 2,991,131 |
Income tax expense/(benefit) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
Reconciliation of the Beginning and Ending Amount of Gross Unrecognized Tax Benefits | A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Beginning balance |  | $ | 1,592,357 |  |  | $ | 1,533,986 |  |  | $ | 1,246,025 |
Increases/(decreases) for current year tax positions |  |  | 115,502 |  |  |  | 58,371 |  |  |  | 287,961 |
Increases/(decreases) for prior year tax positions |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Decreases as a result of expiration of statute of limitations |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Ending balance |  | $ | 1,707,859 |  |  | $ | 1,592,357 |  |  | $ | 1,533,986 |

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