3. Equity Method and Other Investments

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The Company’s investments consist of the following (in thousands):

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Visiogene LLC

On January 4, 2021, the Company and Visiogene LLC (“Visiogene”) entered into a License and Investment Agreement (“Visiogene License Agreement”) for an exclusive, worldwide license to certain of Visiogene’s intellectual property relating to ocular gene therapy. Concurrently, the Company and Visiogene entered into a Preferred Unit Purchase Agreement (“Visiogene Unit Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company purchased 3,000,000 Visiogene preferred units. In connection with the two Visiogene agreements, the Company paid $5.0 million in cash and issued to Visiogene 75,000 ordinary shares of the Company with a fair market value of $1.2 million based on the closing price of the Company’s ordinary shares on the date of closing.

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The Company accounted for the payments under the Visiogene License Agreement and Visiogene Unit Agreement as a basket transaction and allocated $1.0 million to the Visiogene License Agreement and the remaining $5.2 million was allocated to the Visiogene preferred units. The $1.0 million allocated to the Visiogene License

Agreement was expensed as acquired in-process research and development as the Company determined there was no alternative future use. The Company accounts for this investment using the equity method of accounting.

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During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded de minimis research and development expenses related to the Company’s share of Visiogene’s losses.