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• Research Collaboration (a) GSK hereby grants to Anacor a non-exclusive, non-royalty bearing license under the GSK IP, solely as and to the extent necessary or important to conduct activities for which Anacor is responsible under the Research Plans during the Research Collaboration Term.

• Research Matters By entering into this Agreement, the Placement Agent does not provide any promise, either explicitly or implicitly, of favorable or continued research coverage of the Company and the Company hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Placement Agent’s selection as a placement agent for the Offering was in no way conditioned, explicitly or implicitly, on the Placement Agent providing favorable or any research coverage of the Company. In accordance with FINRA Rule 2711(e), the parties acknowledge and agree that the Placement Agent has not directly or indirectly offered favorable research, a specific rating or a specific price target, or threatened to change research, a rating or a price target, to the Company or inducement for the receipt of business or compensation.

• Third Party Obligations Executive acknowledges that the Company from time to time may have agreements with other persons or entities which impose obligations or restrictions on the Company regarding development-related work made during the course of work thereunder or regarding the confidential nature of such work. Executive agrees to be bound by all such obligations and restrictions and to take all action necessary to discharge the obligations of the Company.

• Collaboration Each Party shall provide to the enforcing Party reasonable assistance in such enforcement, at such enforcing Party’s request and expense, including to be named in such action if required by Applicable Laws to pursue such action. The enforcing Party shall keep the other Party regularly informed of the status and progress of such enforcement efforts, shall reasonably consider the other Party’s comments on any such efforts, including determination of litigation strategy and filing of material papers to the competent court. The non-enforcing Party shall be entitled to separate representation in such matter by counsel of its own choice and at its own expense, but such Party shall at all times cooperate fully with the enforcing Party.

• Royalty Obligations Part 2.7(e) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and accurate list and summary of all royalties, fees, commissions, and other amounts payable by the Seller to any Person (other than sales commissions paid to employees according to the Seller’s standard commissions plan) upon or for the sale, or distribution of any Seller Product or the use of any Seller IP.

• Research Program Term The Research Program shall be conducted during the period of five years commencing as of the Agreement Date ("Research Program Term"). Upon not later than seventy-five (75) days' prior written notice JT may, in its sole judgment, terminate the Research Program at the end of the third (3/rd/) year and fourth (4/th/) year of the Research Program. The RMC may terminate the Research Program any time during the Research Program Term if it unanimously determines the Research Program is no longer scientifically useful or that all potential Products would not be commercially viable. In case of such an early termination by JT or the RMC, JT shall be exempt from any payment(s) under Section 10(a) that would have become due and payable after the effective date of such early termination. Following any termination of the Research Program (i) that occurs simultaneously with the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 13 (i.e., no compound or Lead Compound has been designated previously a Collaboration Lead Compound in accordance with Section 3(b) and no Independent Lead Compound is being developed in accordance with Section 3(m)) or (ii) that is followed at some future date by the termination by JT of Development or co-promotion of any Collaboration Lead Compound and/or Product pursuant to Sections 3(l) or 5(c), respectively, or development of an Independent Lead Compound in accordance with Section 3(m) (A) any licenses granted by Tularik to JT will terminate, (B) JT will grant to Tularik an exclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license, to make, use and sell compounds, Collaboration Lead Compounds or Products under JT's interest in Program Patents and Program Know-How and (C) under the terms and conditions to be separately agreed, JT will also grant to Tularik a nonexclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license under any JT Patent Rights and Know-How to the extent necessary to practice the license granted under the Program Patents and Program Know-How in (B) (including, with respect to compounds, a limited number of JT's library compounds approved by JT); provided, however, that in the event the Research Program terminates but the Agreement has not terminated with respect to designated Collaboration Lead Compounds, Independent Lead Compounds and/or Products as provided in Section 2(g)(ii), Sections 2(g)(A), (B) and (C) shall apply only to those compounds, Collaboration Lead Compounds, Independent Lead Compounds and Products for which Development or co-promotion shall have been terminated and/or to those compounds or Lead Compounds that have not been designated previously a Collaboration Lead Compound in accordance with Section 3(b) or an Independent Lead Compound in accordance with Section 3(m); provided further that in the event that JT elects to pursue a Discontinued Compound or a Non-Proposed Compound on or before the first anniversary of the expiration or termination of the Research Program Term pursuant to Section 3(b)(iii) or 3(b)(iv), respectively, Sections 2(g)(A), (B) and (C) shall not apply to such Discontinued Compound or Non-Proposed Compound until such time as JT shall have terminated the Development or co-promotion of such Discontinued Compound or Non- Proposed Compound. Tularik will then be free to pursue clinical development and registration of such compounds, Lead Compounds and/or Products without obligation to JT except as provided in Section 4(f) or Section 5(c), as appropriate.

• Research License Following Selection of each CGI Antigen (or exercise of a Buy-In Right for each CGI Antigen) and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, ABX agrees to grant, and hereby grants, to CGI a nonexclusive sublicense under the Licensed Technology to develop, make, have made, use, import or export or otherwise transfer physical possession of (but not to sell, lease, offer to sell or lease, or otherwise transfer title to) Covered Products related to such CGI Antigen and cells that express or secrete Antibodies to such CGI Antigen, in each case solely for purposes relating to or in connection with research or development (i) of Covered Products for use in the field of Gene Therapy or (ii) involving Genetic Material when used with viral or nonviral gene transfer systems. CGI shall have the right to sublicense the rights granted under this Section 2.5 upon the approval of ABX, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. In the event that ABX refuses to approve such a sublicense, ABX shall, to the extent that ABX has the right to do so, grant at CGI's request a nonexclusive sublicense of such rights directly to a non-Affiliate third party designated by CGI on terms and conditions substantially identical to the applicable terms and conditions of this Agreement. The sublicense granted by ABX under this Section 2.5 with respect to a CGI Antigen (and the further sublicenses, if any, granted by CGI under this Section 2.5 with respect to such CGI Antigen) shall terminate at such time as (A) CGI sends ABX an Abandonment Notice pursuant to Section 2.4.1 above regarding such CGI Antigen or (B) CGI enters into a CGI Product Sublicense related to such CGI Antigen; provided, however, that termination of a sublicense under this Section 2.5 with respect to a CGI Antigen pursuant to (B) above shall not affect the duration or survival of a grant of similar rights or sublicense under the CGI Product Sublicense with respect to such CGI Antigen, which rights or sublicense shall terminate or expire only in accordance with the terms of such CGI Product Sublicense. In the event that ABX enters into a Product Sublicense with respect to a CGI Antigen and CGI has not within six (6) months thereafter entered into a CGI Product Sublicense with respect to such CGI Antigen, the sublicense granted under this Section 2.5 with respect to such CGI Antigen shall terminate. It is understood and agreed that (x) as to ABX-Controlled Rights, the grant of rights under this Section 2.5 shall be subject to and limited in all respects by the terms of the applicable ABX In-License(s) pursuant to which such ABX-Controlled Rights were granted to ABX and (y) the rights and sublicenses granted to CGI under this Section 2.5 or any other provision of this Agreement shall be subject in all respects to the GenPharm Cross License.

• Development Obligations You agree to do each of the following:

• Licensed Patents Immune Design, at its expense, shall have the first right to file, prosecute and maintain all Licensed Patents for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement using patent counsel reasonably approved by IDRI, including conducting any interferences, reexaminations, reissues, oppositions, or request for patent term extension relating thereto. Immune Design shall conduct such filing, prosecution and maintenance in good faith, taking into consideration IDRI’s retained rights hereunder, and consistent with reasonable business judgment, provide IDRI with all relevant or material documentation and proposed filing in the Territory so that IDRI may be concurrently and promptly informed of the continuing prosecution, and consult with IDRI with regards to Immune Design’s patent strategy with the Licensed Patents for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement. Licensed Patents in the name of IDRI shall remain in the name of IDRI. Immune Design shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ***, as applicable. To the extent such ***, Immune Design shall provide IDRI reasonable opportunity to review and comment on such prosecution efforts regarding such Licensed Patents in the Territory, and any IDRI comments will be reasonably considered in such prosecution efforts, and included to the extent affecting the IDRI Exclusive Field or IDRI Territory, as the case may be. If Immune Design determines in its sole discretion to abandon or not maintain any Licensed Patent for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement in the Territory, then Immune Design shall promptly provide IDRI with written notice of such determination at least sixty (60) days before any deadline for taking action to avoid abandonment and shall provide IDRI with the right, opportunity and reasonable assistance to prepare, file, prosecute and maintain such Licensed Patent in the applicable jurisdiction in IDRI’s sole discretion and at IDRI’s expense, provided that Immune Design shall provide such reasonable assistance at its *** INDICATES MATERIAL THAT WAS OMITTED AND FOR WHICH CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT WAS REQUESTED. ALL SUCH OMITTED MATERIAL WAS FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO RULE 406 PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. own costs and expenses. If IDRI elects to prepare, file, prosecute and maintain such Licensed Patent in such jurisdiction for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights, then Immune Design’s license rights to such Licensed Patent in such country will become nonexclusive in such country under such Licensed Patent (and/or patent application). If IDRI desires Immune Design to file, in a particular jurisdiction, a Licensed Patent for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement that claims priority to another Licensed Patent for which Immune Design has any exclusive rights under this Agreement, IDRI shall provide written notice to Immune Design requesting that Immune Design file such patent application in such jurisdiction. If IDRI provides such written notice to Immune Design, Immune Design shall either (i) file and prosecute such patent application and maintain any patent issuing thereon in such jurisdiction and the Parties shall share the related costs and expenses (A) in countries *** on the basis of *** percent (***%) Immune Design: *** percent (***%) IDRI or (B) in countries within the IDRI Territory equally; or (ii) notify IDRI that Immune Design does not desire to file such patent application in such jurisdiction and provide IDRI with the opportunity to file and prosecute such patent application, provided that if IDRI files and prosecutes such patent application in such jurisdiction, then Immune Design’s license rights to such License Patent in such country will become nonexclusive in such country under such Licensed GLA Patent (and/or patent application). Immune Design shall be responsible for the costs and expenses incurred in connection with its own activities for filing, prosecuting and maintaining the Licensed Patents; IDRI shall be responsible for monitoring of such activities by IDRI.

• Research Funding Genocea shall pay to Isconova in total [* * *] payable as follows: (i) $[* * *] in equal monthly installments for each remaining month in 2009 following the Effective Date and (ii) $[* * *] in equal monthly installments during the period from January 1, 2010 until March 31, 2012. The Research Funding shall be used solely for the performance of activities under the Research and Phase 1 Supply Plan and the Development and Scale-Up Plan and, for the avoidance of doubt, solely to fund Development and research activities for human (and not veterinary) applications in accordance with such Research and Phase 1 Supply Plan and Development and Scale-Up Plan. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, the Parties agree that this restriction shall only apply to the allocation and use of the Research Funding as such, and shall not be construed as limiting or affecting the ownership of any Isconova Technology and Joint Technology created, conceived, reduced to practice or Invented hereunder. Isconova’s ownership and/or rights to the Isconova Technology and Joint Technology shall exclusively be governed by the provisions in Section 3.3. and Isconova’s use of the Isconova Technology and Joint Technology shall be subject only to the licenses granted to Genocea in Sections 3.1.1 through 3.1.3. Isconova shall during the Research Term allocate not less than two (2) dedicated FTEs for Isconova’s research work for Genocea hereunder and each such dedicated FTE shall be paid through Research Funding. During the Research Term, Isconova shall, within fifteen (15) days after the end of each month, deliver to Genocea a report setting forth the number of Isconova FTEs that worked on activities under the Development and Scale-Up Plan and the Research and Phase 1 Supply Plan, as well as other costs and expenses of Isconova evidencing recourses spent on Isconova’s research work hereunder. Researching Funding THIS EXHIBIT HAS BEEN REDACTED AND IS THE SUBJECT OF A CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUEST. REDACTED MATERIAL IS MARKED WITH [* * *] AND HAS BEEN FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. payments shall be made within fifteen (15) days after the end of each calendar month.