NOTE 8 — RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Equity Issuances

As discussed in Note 5, on July 23, 2019 the New Investors agreed to purchase an aggregate of approximately 69.0 million shares of Common Stock at an issuance price of $0.29 per share for gross proceeds of $20.0 million. This purchase was made pursuant to the terms of the call option that was issued in connection with an equity offering in January 2019. The New Investors currently own an aggregate of approximately 62% of the Company’s outstanding shares of Common Stock.

Master Services Agreement

Effective July 1, 2019, the Company entered into a Master Services Agreement (“MSA”) with the New Investors whereby the Company agreed to assist the New Investors in an evaluation of their long acting growth hormone program referred to as GX-H9. For the three months ended September 30, 2019, the Company charged the New Investors for employee services of $103,000 and reimbursable expenses incurred with unrelated parties of $144,000, for a total of approximately $247,000. This amount is included in Receivables from Related Parties in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019. In October 2019, the Company collected $125,000 of these receivables. Amounts charged under the MSA for employee services are reflected as a reduction of research and development compensation costs in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2019.