Nature of the Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 1. Nature of the Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Chiasma, Inc. is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company incorporated in 2001 under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Company is dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from orphan diseases by developing and commercializing novel oral therapies that are available only as injections. The Company has completed a multinational Phase 3 clinical trial of its most advanced Transient Permeability Enhancer platform-based product candidate, oral octreotide, for the treatment of acromegaly and has filed a New Drug Application (“NDA”) with the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). In August, 2015, the Company received notice that the NDA was accepted for filing to permit a substantive review. The FDA also has conditionally accepted the proposed trade name of Mycapssa for oral octreotide. Since its inception, the Company has devoted substantially all of its efforts to business planning, research and development, recruiting management and technical staff, and raising capital, and has financed its operations through the issuance of redeemable convertible preferred stock, long-term debt, and proceeds from a license agreement. Chiasma, Inc. is headquartered in Massachusetts and has a wholly owned subsidiary; Chiasma (Israel) Ltd. Chiasma, Inc. and Chiasma (Israel) Ltd. are herein collectively referred to as the “Company”. The Company’s research and development facilities are in Israel. The Company is subject to risks common to companies in the biopharmaceutical development industry. There can be no assurance that the Company’s research and development will be successfully completed, that adequate protection for the Company’s intellectual property will be obtained, that any products developed will obtain required regulatory approval or that any approved products will be commercially viable. Even if the Company’s development efforts are successful, it is uncertain when, if ever, the Company will generate significant product sales. The Company operates in an environment of rapid technological change and substantial competition from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Liquidity The Company has incurred significant losses from operations since its inception and expects losses to continue for the foreseeable future. The Company’s success depends primarily on the successful development and regulatory approval of its product candidates, including its lead product oral octreotide capsules. The Company expects its research and development expenses to increase in connection with its planned European Phase III clinical trial of oral octreotide for the treatment of patients with acromegaly, its planned Phase II clinical trial of oral octreotide for the treatment of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NET) and other potential studies of oral octreotide. In addition, if the Company obtains marketing approval for oral octreotide, it may incur significant sales, marketing, in-licensing and outsourced manufacturing expenses, as well as continued research and development expenses. As a result of becoming a public company on July 15, 2015, the Company expects to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company. Therefore, the Company expects to continue to incur significant and increasing operating losses for the foreseeable future. The Company may seek additional capital through a combination of private and public equity offerings, debt financings and collaborations and strategic and licensing arrangements. If adequate funds are not available to the Company on a timely basis, or at all, the Company may be required to terminate or delay clinical trials or other development activities for oral octreotide or for one or more indications for which it is developing octreotide, or delay its establishment of sales and marketing capabilities or other activities that may be necessary to commercialize oral octreotide, if the Company obtains marketing approval. Basis of Presentation The Company has prepared the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 and notes thereto, included in the Company’s prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) on July 16, 2015 (the “Prospectus”). In the opinion of management, the Company has prepared the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements on the same basis as its audited financial statements, and these financial statements include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the results of the interim periods presented. The operating results for the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full year 2015. On July 21, 2015, the Company completed the sale of 7,319,750 shares of its common stock in its initial public offering (the “IPO”), at a price to the public of $16.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds to the Company of approximately $106.4 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. In preparation for the IPO, the Company’s board of directors and stockholders approved a 1-for-9.132 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Split”) of the Company’s common stock effective June 30, 2015. All share and per share amounts in the unaudited financial statements contained herein and notes thereto have been retroactively adjusted, where necessary, to give effect to the Reverse Split. In connection with the closing of the IPO on July 21, 2015, all of the Company’s outstanding redeemable convertible preferred stock automatically converted into 16,403,011 shares of common stock. The significant increase in shares outstanding in July 2015 is expected to impact the year-over-year comparability of the Company’s net loss per share calculations over the next year. Use of Estimates The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the financial statements and the accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates, fair values of financial instruments, useful lives of property and equipment, income taxes, and contingent liabilities, among others. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements In May 2014, Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers In July 2015, the FASB affirmed its proposal to defer the effective date of the guidance in ASU 2014-09 for all entities by one year. As a result, if the proposal is formally adopted by the issuance of a new ASU, the new revenue standard (currently discussed in ASU 2014-09) would be effective for the Company for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The FASB also affirmed its proposal to permit all entities to early adopt the guidance in the new revenue standard, but not before annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern |