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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 18pt"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;2.&amp;#xA0;Accrued Expenses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 Accrued expenses consist of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="78%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="6%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="6%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;June&amp;#xA0;30,&lt;br /&gt;
 2017&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;December&amp;#xA0;31,&lt;br /&gt;
 2016&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" colspan="6" align="center"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Legal and accounting fees&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;68&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Accrued compensation&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;284&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;614&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Accrued research and development costs and other&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,693&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,174&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Total&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;3,045&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,802&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
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 &lt;b&gt;8.&amp;#xA0;Commitments and Contingencies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shareholder Class&amp;#xA0;Actions and Derivative
 Lawsuits&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 On August&amp;#xA0;1 and 25, 2014, persons claiming to be Galectin
 shareholders filed putative shareholder derivative complaints in
 the Nevada District Court, seeking recovery on behalf of the
 Company against certain of the Company&amp;#x2019;s directors and
 officers. On September&amp;#xA0;10, 2014, the Nevada District Court
 entered an order consolidating the two cases, relieving the
 defendants of any obligation to respond to the initial complaints,
 and providing that defendants may respond to a consolidated
 complaint to be filed by the plaintiffs. On January&amp;#xA0;5, 2015,
 the Nevada District Court granted Defendants&amp;#x2019; motion to
 transfer the consolidated putative derivative litigation to the
 United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
 (hereinafter referred to as the &amp;#x201C;Georgia Federal Derivative
 Action.&amp;#x201D;). The plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint on
 February&amp;#xA0;27, 2015. On April&amp;#xA0;6, 2015, the Company and
 defendants filed motions to dismiss the consolidated complaint.
 Rather than respond to those motions, the plaintiffs sought and
 obtained leave to file an amended complaint. Plaintiffs filed their
 amended complaint (the &amp;#x201C;Complaint&amp;#x201D;) on May&amp;#xA0;26,
 2015. The Complaint alleges that certain of the Company&amp;#x2019;s
 directors and officers (the &amp;#x201C;Derivative Action Individual
 Defendants&amp;#x201D;) breached their fiduciary duties to the
 Company&amp;#x2019;s shareholders by causing or permitting the Company
 to make allegedly false and misleading public statements concerning
 the Company&amp;#x2019;s financial and business prospects. The Complaint
 also alleges that the Derivative Action Individual Defendants
 violated the federal securities laws by allegedly making false or
 misleading statements of material fact in the Company&amp;#x2019;s proxy
 filings, committed waste of corporate assets, were unjustly
 enriched, and that certain defendants breached their fiduciary
 duties through allegedly improper sales of Galectin stock. In
 addition, the Complaint alleges that the Derivative Action
 Individual Defendants and one of the Company&amp;#x2019;s shareholders
 aided and abetted the alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. The
 Complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages on behalf of the
 Company, corporate governance reforms, disgorgement of profits,
 benefits and compensation by the defendants, costs, and
 attorneys&amp;#x2019; and experts&amp;#x2019; fees. The Company and
 defendants filed motions to dismiss the Complaint on July&amp;#xA0;8,
 2015. On December&amp;#xA0;30, 2015, the United States District Court
 for the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the Georgia Federal
 Derivative Action with prejudice and entered a final judgment in
 favor of the defendants. Plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal
 seeking review of the dismissal order and final judgment. On
 July&amp;#xA0;7, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the
 Eleventh Circuit dismissed the appeal as the Plaintiffs failed to
 timely file their appeal brief. In September 2016, the Board
 received a demand letter from one of the plaintiffs in the Georgia
 Federal Derivative Action. The demand letter, among other things,
 requests that the Board investigate the conduct alleged in the
 Complaint and implement certain remedial measures purportedly
 designed to address the alleged conduct. It is expected that the
 Board will consider the demand letter in due course and in light of
 the related pending shareholder litigation described herein.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 On August&amp;#xA0;29, 2014, another alleged Galectin shareholder filed
 a putative shareholder derivative complaint in state court in Las
 Vegas, Nevada, seeking recovery on behalf of the Company against
 the same Galectin directors and officers who are named as
 defendants in the derivative litigation pending in the Georgia
 Federal Derivative Action. The plaintiff in the Nevada action
 subsequently filed first and second amended complaints. The second
 amended complaint alleges claims for breach of fiduciary duties,
 unjust enrichment, and waste of corporate assets, based on
 allegations that are substantially similar to those asserted in the
 Georgia Federal Derivative Action (except that the Nevada action
 does not allege violations of the federal securities laws and does
 not assert any claim against the Galectin shareholder named as a
 defendant in the Georgia Federal Derivative Action), and seeks
 unspecified monetary damages on behalf of the Company, corporate
 governance reforms, disgorgement of profits, benefits and
 compensation by the defendants, costs, and attorneys&amp;#x2019; and
 experts&amp;#x2019; fees. The Company and defendants filed motions to
 dismiss the second amended complaint on April&amp;#xA0;22, 2015. On
 April&amp;#xA0;29, 2015, the plaintiffs in the Georgia Federal
 Derivative Action (the &amp;#x201C;Intervenor Plaintiffs&amp;#x201D;) filed a
 motion to intervene in the Nevada action which, among other things,
 raised questions regarding the Nevada plaintiff&amp;#x2019;s standing.
 Thereafter, the Nevada plaintiff filed a motion to join additional
 plaintiffs. At a hearing held on June&amp;#xA0;11, 2015, the Nevada
 court: (i)&amp;#xA0;granted the Intervenor Plaintiffs&amp;#x2019; motion to
 intervene; (ii)&amp;#xA0;directed the Intervenor Plaintiffs to file a
 complaint in intervention; (iii)&amp;#xA0;directed the Nevada plaintiff
 to file a motion for leave to file a further amended complaint to
 add additional plaintiffs; (iv)&amp;#xA0;stated that the
 defendants&amp;#x2019; motions to dismiss the second amended complaint
 were denied &amp;#x201C;at this point;&amp;#x201D; (v)&amp;#xA0;ordered the
 Nevada action stayed until December&amp;#xA0;11 , 2015; and
 (vi)&amp;#xA0;directed the parties to submit a status report on
 December&amp;#xA0;11, 2015, updating the court on the progress and
 status of the Georgia Federal Derivative Action. On July&amp;#xA0;9,
 2015, pursuant to the Nevada State Court&amp;#x2019;s instruction, the
 Intervenor Plaintiffs filed a complaint-in-intervention in Nevada
 State Court, asserting similar claims to the ones they alleged in
 the Georgia Federal Derivative Action described above. On
 December&amp;#xA0;11, 2015, further to the Nevada State Court&amp;#x2019;s
 instruction, the parties submitted status reports detailing the
 status of the Georgia Federal Derivative Action. On January&amp;#xA0;5,
 2016, the Nevada State Court held a status conference during which
 the dismissal of the Georgia Federal Derivative Action was
 discussed. Subsequent to that conference, on January&amp;#xA0;19, 2016,
 the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the Nevada State Court
 litigation based on the dismissal of the similar Georgia Federal
 Derivative Action, among other grounds. Following full briefing and
 a hearing on March&amp;#xA0;3, 2016, the Nevada State Court granted
 dismissal of the Nevada State Court litigation. Notice of Entry of
 the Nevada State Court&amp;#x2019;s order dismissing the Nevada State
 Court litigation was docketed on June&amp;#xA0;21, 2016. The Nevada
 plaintiff and Intervenor Plaintiffs (&amp;#x201C;Appellants&amp;#x201D;)
 filed notices of appeal seeking review of the Nevada State
 Court&amp;#x2019;s order and judgment dismissing the claims. The appeal
 is now fully briefed and awaiting a decision from the Nevada
 Supreme Court.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 Estimating an amount or range of possible losses resulting from
 litigation proceedings is inherently difficult and requires an
 extensive degree of judgment, particularly where the matters
 involve indeterminate claims for monetary damages, are in the early
 stages of the proceedings, and are subject to appeal. In addition,
 because most legal proceedings are resolved over extended periods
 of time, potential losses are subject to change due to, among other
 things, new developments, changes in legal strategy, the outcome of
 intermediate procedural and substantive rulings and other
 parties&amp;#x2019; settlement posture and their evaluation of the
 strength or weakness of their case against us. For these reasons,
 we are currently unable to predict the ultimate timing or outcome
 of, or reasonably estimate the possible losses or a range of
 possible losses resulting from, the matters described above. Based
 on information currently available, the Company does not believe
 that any reasonably possible losses arising from currently pending
 legal matters will be material to the Company&amp;#x2019;s results of
 operations or financial condition. However, in light of the
 inherent uncertainties involved in such matters, an adverse outcome
 in one or more of these matters could materially and adversely
 affect the Company&amp;#x2019;s financial condition, results of
 operations or cash flows in any particular reporting period.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Other Legal Proceedings&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 The Company records accruals for such contingencies to the extent
 that the Company concludes that their occurrence is probable and
 the related damages are estimable. There are no other pending legal
 proceedings except as noted above.&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 18pt"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;3.&amp;#xA0;Stock-Based Compensation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 Following is the stock-based compensation expense related to common
 stock options, common stock, restricted common stock and common
 stock warrants:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
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 &lt;td width="75%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="6" align="center"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;Three&amp;#xA0;Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;June 30,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="6" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Six&amp;#xA0;Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;June 30,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2017&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2016&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2017&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2016&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Research and development&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;132&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;179&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;301&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;433&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 General and administrative&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;137&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;223&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;298&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;1,192&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Total stock-based compensation expense&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;269&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;402&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;599&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;1,625&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 1px; MARGIN-TOP: 12px"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 The following table summarizes the stock option activity in the
 Company&amp;#x2019;s equity incentive plans, including non-plan grants
 to Company executives, from December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016
 through&amp;#xA0;June 30, 2017:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="72%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="8%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="8%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Shares&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Weighted&amp;#xA0;Average&lt;br /&gt;
 Exercise&amp;#xA0;Price&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,656,888&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4.30&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Granted&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Exercised&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Options forfeited/cancelled&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,656,888&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4.30&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 As of June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017, there was $595,000 of unrecognized
 compensation related to 1,158,214 unvested options, which is
 expected to be recognized over a weighted&amp;#x2013;average period of
 approximately 0.73 years. The weighted-average grant date fair
 value for options granted during the six months ended June&amp;#xA0;30,
 2016 was $1.05. The Company granted 277,500 stock options during
 the six months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2016, of which 69,375 options
 vested upon grant with the remaining 208,125 options vesting over 3
 years. Approximately $73,000 of non-cash, stock-based compensation
 expense was recorded during the six months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2016
 related to the options granted during the quarter that were vested
 upon the grant date.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 The fair value of all other options granted is determined using the
 Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The following weighted average
 assumptions were used:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="72%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Six&lt;br /&gt;
 Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;br /&gt;
 June&amp;#xA0;30,&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Six&lt;br /&gt;
 Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;br /&gt;
 June&amp;#xA0;30,&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;2017&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;2016&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Risk-free interest rate&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;1.7&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;%&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Expected life of the options&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;6.0&amp;#xA0;years&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Expected volatility of the underlying stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;94&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;%&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Expected dividend rate&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;%&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 The following table summarizes the restricted stock grant activity
 in the Company&amp;#x2019;s equity incentive plans from
 December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016 through&amp;#xA0;June 30, 2017:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="68%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="88%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="4%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Shares&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;754,605&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Granted&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Exercised&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Options forfeited/cancelled&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;754,605&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 On March&amp;#xA0;12, 2015, the Company granted 81,352 shares of
 restricted stock to non-employee directors as a component of their
 compensation. A total of 77,784 shares were issued to seven
 directors representing non-cash compensation cost of $280,000 which
 was recognized on a straight-line basis from the grant date through
 December&amp;#xA0;15, 2016, when the restricted shares vested in full.
 A total of 3,568 shares were issued to two directors, who were not
 nominated for reelection, representing non-cash compensation cost
 of $12,845 that was recognized on a straight-line basis from the
 grant date through May&amp;#xA0;21, 2016, when the restricted shares
 vested in full.&lt;/p&gt;
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 In January 2014, we created Galectin Sciences, LLC (the
 &amp;#x201C;LLC&amp;#x201D; or &amp;#x201C;Investee&amp;#x201D;), a collaborative joint
 venture co-owned by SBH Sciences, Inc. (&amp;#x201C;SBH&amp;#x201D;), to
 research and develop small organic molecule inhibitors of
 galectin-3 for oral administration. The LLC was initially
 capitalized with a $400,000 cash investment to fund future research
 and development activities, which was provided by the Company, and
 specific in-process research and development
 (&amp;#x201C;IPR&amp;amp;D&amp;#x201D;) contributed by SBH.&amp;#xA0;The estimated
 fair value of the IPR&amp;amp;D contributed by SBH, on the date of
 contribution, was $400,000.&amp;#xA0;Initially, the Company and SBH had
 a 50% equity ownership interest in the LLC, with neither party
 having control over the LLC.&amp;#xA0;Accordingly, from inception
 through the fourth quarter of 2014, the Company accounted for its
 investment in the LLC using the equity method of
 accounting.&amp;#xA0;Under the equity method of accounting, the
 Company&amp;#x2019;s investment was initially recorded at cost with
 subsequent adjustments to the carrying value to recognize
 additional investments in or distributions from the Investee, as
 well as the Company&amp;#x2019;s share of the Investee&amp;#x2019;s earnings,
 losses and/or changes in capital. The estimated fair value of the
 IPR&amp;amp;D contributed to the LLC was immediately expensed upon
 contribution as there was no alternative future use available at
 the point of contribution.&amp;#xA0;The operating agreement provides
 that if either party does not desire to contribute its equal share
 of funding required after the initial capitalization, then the
 other party, providing all of the funding, will have its ownership
 share increased in proportion to the total amount contributed from
 inception. In the fourth quarter of 2014, after the LLC had
 expended the $400,000 in cash, SBH decided not to contribute its
 share of the funding required. As a result, the Company contributed
 the $73,000 needed for the fourth quarter of 2014 expenses of the
 LLC. The Company contributed $659,000 and $687,000 for the LLC
 expenses in 2016 and 2015, respectively, and SBH contributed
 $50,000 in 2016. The Company contributed $45,000 and $29,000 during
 the quarters ended March&amp;#xA0;31, 2017 and June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017,
 respectively. As of June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017, the Company&amp;#x2019;s
 ownership percentage in the LLC was 81%. The Company accounts for
 the interest in the LLC as a consolidated, less than wholly owned
 subsidiary. Because the LLC&amp;#x2019;s equity is immaterial, the value
 of the non-controlling interest is also deemed to be
 immaterial.&lt;/p&gt;
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 Dilutive shares which could exist pursuant to the exercise of
 outstanding stock instruments and which were not included in the
 calculation because their affect would have been anti-dilutive are
 as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="74%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;June&amp;#xA0;30,&amp;#xA0;2017&lt;br /&gt;
 (shares)&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;June&amp;#xA0;30,&amp;#xA0;2016&lt;br /&gt;
 (shares)&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Warrants to purchase shares of common stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;12,249,189&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;8,908,586&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Options to purchase shares of common stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,656,888&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;3,499,638&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred
 stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,312,282&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,522,936&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Unvested shares of restricted common stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;337,935&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;21,218,359&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;15,269,095&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
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 The following table summarizes the restricted stock grant activity
 in the Company&amp;#x2019;s equity incentive plans from
 December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016 through&amp;#xA0;June 30, 2017:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="88%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="4%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Shares&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;754,605&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Granted&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Exercised&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Options forfeited/cancelled&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;754,605&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 Following is the stock-based compensation expense related to common
 stock options, common stock, restricted common stock and common
 stock warrants:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="92%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="75%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="6" align="center"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;Three&amp;#xA0;Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;June 30,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="6" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Six&amp;#xA0;Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;June 30,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2017&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2016&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2017&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2016&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Research and development&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;132&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;179&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;301&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;433&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 General and administrative&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;137&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;223&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;298&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;1,192&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Total stock-based compensation expense&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;269&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;402&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;599&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;1,625&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
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 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;1.&amp;#xA0;Basis of Presentation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 Galectin Therapeutics Inc. (the &amp;#x201C;Company&amp;#x201D;) is a
 clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that is applying its
 leadership in galectin science and drug development to create new
 therapies for fibrotic disease, skin diseases and cancer. These
 candidates are based on the Company&amp;#x2019;s targeting of galectin
 proteins which are key mediators of biologic and pathologic
 function. These compounds also may have application for drugs to
 treat other diseases and chronic health conditions.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as
 reported in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q reflect all
 adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to
 present fairly the financial position of the Company as of
 June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017 and the results of its operations for the three
 and six months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017 and 2016 and its cash flows
 for the six months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017 and 2016. All
 adjustments made to the interim financial statements include all
 those of a normal and recurring nature. Amounts presented in the
 condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016
 are derived from the Company&amp;#x2019;s audited consolidated financial
 statements as of that date, but do not include all of the
 information and footnotes required by accounting principles
 generally accepted in the United States of America for complete
 financial statements. The Company considers events or transactions
 that occur after the balance sheet date but before the financial
 statements are issued to provide additional evidence relative to
 certain estimates or to identify matters that require additional
 disclosure. Subsequent events have been evaluated through the date
 these financial statements are available to be issued. The results
 for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results which
 may be expected for any other interim period or for the full year.
 The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the
 Company should be read in conjunction with its Annual Report on
 Form 10-K for the year ended December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 The Company has operated at a loss since its inception and has had
 no significant revenues. The Company anticipates that losses will
 continue for the foreseeable future. At June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017, the
 Company had $9.1&amp;#xA0;million of unrestricted cash and cash
 equivalents available to fund future operations. The Company
 believes that with the cash on hand at June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017, there is
 sufficient cash to fund currently planned operations through
 January&amp;#xA0;2018. The Company&amp;#x2019;s ability to fund operations
 after its current cash resources are exhausted depends on its
 ability to obtain additional financing or achieve profitable
 operations, as to which no assurances can be given. Accordingly,
 based on the forecasts and estimates underlying the Company&amp;#x2019;s
 current operating plan, the financial statements do not currently
 include any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is
 unable to continue as a going concern.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 The Company was founded in July 2000, was incorporated in the State
 of Nevada in January 2001 under the name
 &amp;#x201C;Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,&amp;#x201D; and changed its name to
 &amp;#x201C;Galectin Therapeutics Inc.&amp;#x201D; on May&amp;#xA0;26, 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 The following table summarizes the stock option activity in the
 Company&amp;#x2019;s equity incentive plans, including non-plan grants
 to Company executives, from December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016
 through&amp;#xA0;June 30, 2017:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="72%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="8%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="8%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Shares&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Weighted&amp;#xA0;Average&lt;br /&gt;
 Exercise&amp;#xA0;Price&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,656,888&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4.30&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Granted&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Exercised&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Options forfeited/cancelled&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,656,888&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4.30&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfShareBasedCompensationStockOptionsActivityTableTextBlock>
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 The fair value of all other options granted is determined using the
 Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The following weighted average
 assumptions were used:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="72%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Six&lt;br /&gt;
 Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;br /&gt;
 June&amp;#xA0;30,&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Six&lt;br /&gt;
 Months&amp;#xA0;Ended&lt;br /&gt;
 June&amp;#xA0;30,&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;2017&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;2016&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Risk-free interest rate&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;1.7&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;%&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Expected life of the options&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;6.0&amp;#xA0;years&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Expected volatility of the underlying stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;94&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;%&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Expected dividend rate&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;%&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 6pt"&gt;
 The following table summarizes the common stock warrant activity
 from December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016 through June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="69%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Shares&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Weighted&amp;#xA0;Average&lt;br /&gt;
 Exercise Price&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;13,488,296&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;3.44&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Granted&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;78,054&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;5.00&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Exercised&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Forfeited/cancelled&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;(1,317,161&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;5.63&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Outstanding, June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;12,249,189&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;3.22&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfStockholdersEquityNoteWarrantsOrRightsTextBlock>
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 &lt;p style="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;7.&amp;#xA0;Common Stock&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;i&gt;2014 At Market Issuance of Common Stock&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 On March&amp;#xA0;30, 2014, the Company entered into an At Market
 Issuance Sales Agreement (the &amp;#x201C;2014 At Market
 Agreement&amp;#x201D;) with a sales agent under which the Company may
 issue and sell shares of its common stock having an aggregate
 offering price of up to $30.0&amp;#xA0;million from time to time
 through the sales agent. Sales of the Company&amp;#x2019;s common stock
 through the sales agent, if any, will be made by any method that is
 deemed an &amp;#x201C;at the market&amp;#x201D; offering as defined by the
 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will pay to
 the sales agent a commission rate equal to 3.0% of the gross
 proceeds from the sale of any shares of common stock sold through
 the sales agent under the 2014 At Market Agreement. In three months
 ended March&amp;#xA0;31, 2017, the Company issued 1,496,797 shares of
 common stock for net proceeds of approximately $1,946,000 under the
 2014 At Market Agreement.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 2017 At Market Issuance of Common Stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 On May&amp;#xA0;19, 2017, the Company entered into an At Market
 Issuance Sales Agreement (the &amp;#x201C;2017 At Market
 Agreement&amp;#x201D;) with a sales agent under which the Company may
 issue and sell shares of its common stock having an aggregate
 offering price of up to $30.0&amp;#xA0;million from time to time
 through the sales agent. Sales of the Company&amp;#x2019;s common stock
 through the sales agent, if any, will be made by any method that is
 deemed an &amp;#x201C;at the market&amp;#x201D; offering as defined by the
 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will pay to
 the sales agent a commission rate equal to 3.0% of the gross
 proceeds from the sale of any shares of common stock sold through
 the sales agent under the 2017 At Market Agreement. In three months
 ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017, the Company issued 198,170 shares of
 common stock for net proceeds of approximately $484,000 under the
 2017 At Market Agreement.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;i&gt;2017 Private Placement&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 On February&amp;#xA0;28, 2017, the Company closed a transaction with
 five individual investors through a private placement of common
 stock and warrants. In total, the Company issued 102,368 shares of
 common stock for proceeds of $200,000. The Company also issued, to
 the five investors, warrants to purchase 76,776 shares of common
 stock at $5.00 per share. The warrants have an expiration date
 of&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="font-size:1px;margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 February&amp;#xA0;28, 2024. The exercise price of each warrant is
 adjustable in the event of a stock split or stock combination,
 capital reorganization, merger or similar event. The warrants were
 valued at approximately $101,000 as of the issuance, using the
 closing price of $1.86, a life of 7 years, a volatility of 97% and
 a risk free interest rate of 1.92%. Based upon the Company&amp;#x2019;s
 analysis of the criteria contained in ASC Topic 815-40,
 &amp;#x201C;Derivatives and Hedging &amp;#x2014; Contracts in Entity&amp;#x2019;s
 Own Equity&amp;#x201D; the Company has determined that warrants issued
 in connection with this financing transaction were not derivative
 liabilities and therefore, were recorded as additional paid-in
 capital.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;i&gt;Other&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 In 2017, the Company entered an agreement with a vendor whereby the
 Company will issue common stock to vendor in lieu of paying in cash
 in amount up to $100,000 for the year. Through June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017,
 the Company has issued 12,781 shares of common stock pursuant to
 this agreement and the value of such shares has been recorded as
 research and development expense.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 Through June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017, the Company has issued a total of
 242,731 shares of common stock for dividends on Series A, Series B
 and Series C Preferred Stock for 2017.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:StockholdersEquityNoteDisclosureTextBlock>
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  <us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted contextRef="eol_PE87402---1710-Q0004_STD_181_20170630_0" unitRef="iso4217_USD_per_shares" decimals="2" id="id_9495122_F64DCFA8-2A8F-4A90-B78C-EC5146DF572F_3_12">-0.29</us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted>
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 18pt"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;6.&amp;#xA0;Loss Per Share&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 Basic net loss per common share is computed by dividing the net
 loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average
 number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net
 loss per common share is computed by dividing the net loss
 available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of
 common shares and other potential common shares then outstanding.
 Potential common shares consist of common shares issuable upon the
 assumed exercise of in-the-money stock options and warrants and
 potential common shares related to the conversion of the preferred
 stock. The computation of diluted net loss per share does not
 assume the issuance of common shares that have an anti-dilutive
 effect on net loss per share.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 Dilutive shares which could exist pursuant to the exercise of
 outstanding stock instruments and which were not included in the
 calculation because their affect would have been anti-dilutive are
 as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="74%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="3%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;June&amp;#xA0;30,&amp;#xA0;2017&lt;br /&gt;
 (shares)&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;June&amp;#xA0;30,&amp;#xA0;2016&lt;br /&gt;
 (shares)&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Warrants to purchase shares of common stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;12,249,189&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;8,908,586&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Options to purchase shares of common stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,656,888&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;3,499,638&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred
 stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;4,312,282&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,522,936&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Unvested shares of restricted common stock&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;
 &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;337,935&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;21,218,359&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;15,269,095&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
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 &lt;p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 &lt;b&gt;5.&amp;#xA0;Fair Value of Financial Instruments&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"&gt;
 The Company has certain financial assets and liabilities recorded
 at fair value. Fair values determined by Level&amp;#xA0;1 inputs
 utilize observable data such as quoted prices in active markets.
 Fair values determined by Level&amp;#xA0;2 inputs utilize data points
 other than quoted prices in active markets that are observable
 either directly or indirectly. Fair values determined by
 Level&amp;#xA0;3 inputs utilize unobservable data points in which there
 is little or no market data, which require the reporting entity to
 develop its own assumptions. The carrying amounts reflected in the
 consolidated balance sheets for cash equivalents, accounts payable
 and accrued expenses approximate their carrying value due to their
 short-term nature. There were no level 2 or level 3 assets or
 liabilities at June&amp;#xA0;30, 2017 or December&amp;#xA0;31, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:FairValueDisclosuresTextBlock>
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-TOP: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4%"&gt;
 Accrued expenses consist of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;table style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="76%" align="center" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;td width="78%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="6%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" width="6%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;June&amp;#xA0;30,&lt;br /&gt;
 2017&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;December&amp;#xA0;31,&lt;br /&gt;
 2016&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" colspan="6" align="center"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Legal and accounting fees&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;68&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Accrued compensation&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;284&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;614&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Accrued research and development costs and other&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,693&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,174&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; PAGE-BREAK-INSIDE: avoid"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="top"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"&gt;
 Total&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;3,045&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;2,802&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1px"&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;
 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
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 &lt;td&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/td&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: #000000 3px double; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt"&gt;
 &amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;
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