exhibit 10. 10 certain confidential portions of this exhibit have been omitted and replaced with “ [ * * * ] ”. such identified information has been excluded from this exhibit because it is ( i ) not material and ( ii ) would likely cause competitive harm to the company if disclosed. s14 - 157 mw amendment 11 / 18 / 2016 s14 - 157 mw amendment 11 / 18 / 2016 s14 - 157 mw amendment 11 / 18 / 2016 amendment no 1 to the license agreement effective the 17th day of november 2015 between stanford university and akoya biosciences effective the 18th day of november, 2016, the board of trustees of the leland stanford junior university ( “ stanford ” ), an institution of higher education having powers under the laws of the state of california, and akoya biosciences, inc. ( “ akoya ” ), a corporation having a principal place of business at 360 post street, suite 601, san francisco, ca, agree as follows : 1. background 1. background 1. background stanford and akoya are parties to a license agreement effective the 17th day of november, 2015 ( “ original agreement ” ) covering “ slide - based antibody detection with oligos ” disclosed in stanford docket s14 - 157, from the laboratory of dr. garry nolan. stanford and akoya wish to amend the original agreement to add a new patent application disclosed in stanford docket s16 - 116 titled “ highly - multiplexed fluorescent imaging using iterative hybridization / de - hybridization cycles of short oligonucleotides to labeled affinity reagents ” from the laboratory of dr. garry nolan. 2. amendment 2. amendment 2. amendment 2. 1paragraph 2. 6 of original agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following : 2. 1paragraph 2. 6 of original agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following : 2. 1 paragraph 2. 6 of original agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following : “ licensed patent ” means stanford ’ s : u. s. provisional applications serial number 62 / 015, 799 filed june 19, 2014 and serial number 62 / 367, 530 filed july 27, 2016 ; u. s. patent application serial number 14 / 560, 921, filed december 4, 2014, pct application serial number pct / us15 / 36763, any u. s. and foreign patent