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Related Party Transactions | 9 Months Ended
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Related Party Transactions | 7. Related Party Transactions Collaborations with Precigen/ PGEN During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company and PGEN Therapeutics, Inc., or PGEN, a wholly owned subsidiary of Precigen Inc., or Precigen, which was formerly known as Intrexon Corporation, entered into an Exclusive License Agreement (Note 8). Collaboration with PGEN and MD Anderson On January 13, 2015, the Company, together with Precigen, entered into a License with the MD Anderson Cancer Center, or MD Anderson, (which Precigen subsequently assigned to PGEN). Pursuant to the MD Anderson License, the Company, together with PGEN, hold an exclusive, worldwide license to certain technologies owned and licensed by MD Anderson, including technologies relating to novel CAR T-cell therapies, non-viral gene transfer systems, genetic modification and/or propagation of immune cells and other cellular therapy approaches, Natural Killer, or NK Cells, and TCRs, arising from the laboratory of Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., who served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from May 2015 to February 2021 and was formerly a tenured professor of pediatrics at MD Anderson. In partial consideration for entering into the MD Anderson License, the Company issued MD Anderson an aggregate of 11,722,163 shares of common stock for which the Company incurred a $67.3 million charge recorded in 2015. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the Company did not make any payments to MD Anderson. The total aggregate payments made in connection with this agreement have been $41.9 million since inception. The net balance of cash resources on hand at MD Anderson available to offset expenses and future costs was zero at September 30, 2021 as the outstanding balance has been fully utilized. At September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had accounts receivable due from MD Anderson of $1.1 million and $4.7 million, respectively. Additionally, the Company recorded approximately $2.1 million and $1.4 million of accrued expenses due to MD Anderson for research and other activities at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. Collaboration with Vineti Inc. On July 9, 2020, the Company entered into a master service agreement and statement of work with Vineti, Inc., or Vineti. Pursuant to the agreements, Vineti is developing a software platform to coordinate and orchestrate the order, cell collection and manufacturing process for the Company’s TCR-T clinical programs. Heidi Hagen, who previously served as a member of our Board of Directors and served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company from February 2021 through August 2021, is a co-founder and former officer, of Vineti. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company recorded expenses of approximately $0.1 million and $0.4 million for services performed by Vineti, respectively. Joint Venture with TriArm Therapeutics/Eden Biocell On December 18, 2018, the Company entered into a Framework Agreement with TriArm Therapeutics, Ltd., or TriArm, pursuant to which the parties agreed to launch Eden BioCell, Ltd., or Eden BioCell, to lead clinical development and commercialization of certain Sleeping Beauty-generated CAR-T therapies as set forth in a separate license agreement. Eden BioCell is a joint venture in the People’s Republic of China (including Macau and Hong Kong), Taiwan and Korea, or collectively, Greater China. The Company licensed to Eden BioCell the rights in Greater China for its third-generation Sleeping Beauty-generated CAR-T therapies targeting the CD19 antigen. Eden BioCell is owned equally by the Company and TriArm and the parties share decision-making authority. TriArm has contributed $10.0 million to Eden BioCell. TriArm also manages all clinical development in the territory pursuant to a Master Services Agreement between TriArm and Eden BioCell. James Huang, who became a director of the Company in July 2020, Chairman of the Board of Directors in January 2021 and Executive Chairman in February 2021, was the founder and serves as managing partner of Panacea Venture, which is an investor in TriArm. Mr. Huang also serves as a member of Eden BioCell’s Board of Directors. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, Eden Biocell incurred a net loss and the Company continues to have no commitment to fund its operations. In September 2021, TriArm and Ziopharm mutually agreed to dissolve the joint venture.

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