Note 11. Research and Development Grant

On July 16, 2024, the Company was awarded the first tranche of $0.9 million of a two-year cooperative grant of up to a total of approximately $1.9 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (“NIDA”), part of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), to support the development of intravenous selonabant, for the potential use as an emergency treatment of acute cannabis-induced toxicities, including cannabis-induced CNS depression in children. The grant comes in the form of two tranches with the initial award of $0.9 million in the first year and subsequent funding of approximately $1 million subject to certain conditions and milestones prior to the second year, specifically that the Investigational New Drug Application to the FDA for a Phase 1 single ascending dose study of intravenous selonabant in healthy adults is permitted to proceed or that the FDA has not imposed a clinical hold that cannot be successfully addressed with available time and resources.  

As the granting agency does not meet the definition of a customer under Topic 606, the Company accounts for qualifying grant receipts as other income within the Company’s condensed statements of operations. The Company earns income for performing tasks under the grant agreement. Income is derived from the reimbursement of direct out-of-pocket expenses (including amounts to subrecipients), salaries and fringe benefits, and certain direct materials costs associated with grant activities.

At September 30, 2024, the Company recorded a grant receivable of $0.2 million, which relates to qualified expenses incurred in connection with grant activities which have not yet been billed back to the funding agency. The Company recorded $0.2 million of grant income for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Collection is deemed probable, and therefore no allowance for credit losses has been established. There were no receivable amounts at June 30, 2024, and no grant income was recognized during the three months ended September 30, 2023.