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These candidates are based on the Company&#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;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: 4%; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt;The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as reported in this Quarterly Report on Form &lt;div style="white-space: nowrap; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;10-Q&lt;/div&gt; reflect all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to present fairly the financial position of the Company as of June&#160;30, 2020 and the results of its operations for the three and six months ended June&#160;30, 2020 and 2019 and its cash flows for the six months ended June&#160;30, 2020 and 2019. 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&#160;31, 2019 are derived from the Company&#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 that may be expected for any other interim period or for the full year. 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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;129&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;81&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Accrued compensation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;861&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;973&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Lease liability&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;41&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;39&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;1,093&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Outstanding, December&#160;31, 2019&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;3,000,256&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;4.88&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 3em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Granted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;845,000&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;2.47&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 3em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Exercised&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;(84,624&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;)&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;2.61&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 3em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Options forfeited/cancelled&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;(23,057&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;)&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;1.80&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Outstanding, June&#160;30, 2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;3,737,575&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;4.40&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;Six&#160;Months&#160;Ended&lt;br/&gt; June&#160;30,&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 8pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Risk-free interest rate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;1.55&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;%&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;2.68&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;%&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Expected life of the options&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;6 years&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Expected volatility of the underlying stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;100&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;%&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;104&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td/&gt;
&lt;td/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 8pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="6" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline;"&gt;Six&#160;Months&#160;Ended&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline;"&gt;June&#160;30,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 8pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline;"&gt;2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline;"&gt;2019&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline;"&gt;2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline;"&gt;2019&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Research and development&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;83&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;83&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;240&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;170&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;General and administrative&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;311&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;360&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;584&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;685&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;394&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;443&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;824&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;855&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 3em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Granted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Outstanding, June&#160;30, 2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;3,737,575&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;4.40&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;12,538,204&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;12,538,204&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 3em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Exercised&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 3em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Forfeited/cancelled&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#x2014;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Outstanding, June&#160;30, 2020&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;12,538,204&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;4.22&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;div style="clear: both; max-height: 0px;"/&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfStockholdersEquityNoteWarrantsOrRightsTextBlock>
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&lt;tr style="font-size: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="width: 74%; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="width: 2%; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="width: 2%; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 8pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;June&#160;30,&#160;2020&lt;br/&gt; (shares)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid;;text-align:center;"&gt;June&#160;30,&#160;2019&lt;br/&gt; (shares)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-bottom: 0.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Warrants to purchase shares of common stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;12,538,204&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;12,540,679&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Options to purchase shares of common stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;3,737,575&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;3,062,338&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-indent: -1em; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1em; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;514,602&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;514,602&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: top; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;16,790,381&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;16,117,619&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; border-top: 3px double rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;"&gt;&#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="width: 74%; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="width: 2%; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
&lt;td style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"/&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;48&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;79&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;&#160;23&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;48&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"/&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;79&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom;;text-align:right;"&gt;72&lt;/td&gt;
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