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Geron Corp. – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/20 – ‘EX-101.SCH’

On:  Thursday, 11/5/20, at 4:03pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/20   ·   Accession #:  1564590-20-51288   ·   File #:  0-20859

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

11/05/20  Geron Corp.                       10-Q        9/30/20   53:8.9M                                   ActiveDisclosure/FA

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML   1.06M 
 2: EX-10.1     Loan and Security Agreement                         HTML    335K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     19K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     19K 
13: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     71K 
14: R2          Condensed Balance Sheets                            HTML     98K 
15: R3          Condensed Statements of Operations                  HTML     53K 
16: R4          Condensed Statements of Comprehensive Loss          HTML     31K 
17: R5          Condensed Statements of Stockholders' Equity        HTML    111K 
18: R6          Condensed Statements of Stockholders' Equity        HTML     20K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
19: R7          Condensed Statements of Cash Flows                  HTML     94K 
20: R8          Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML    110K 
21: R9          Fair Value Measurements                             HTML    504K 
22: R10         Former Collaboration Agreement                      HTML     21K 
23: R11         Contingencies and Uncertainties                     HTML     32K 
24: R12         Operating Leases                                    HTML     39K 
25: R13         Debt                                                HTML     46K 
26: R14         Stockholders' Equity                                HTML     30K 
27: R15         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML    144K 
                (Policies)                                                       
28: R16         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     74K 
                (Tables)                                                         
29: R17         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML    491K 
30: R18         Operating Leases (Tables)                           HTML     35K 
31: R19         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     39K 
32: R20         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Net    HTML     25K 
                Loss Per Share (Detail)                                          
33: R21         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Net    HTML     21K 
                Loss Per Share (Detail1)                                         
34: R22         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies -        HTML     18K 
                Useful Lives of Assets (Details)                                 
35: R23         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Stock  HTML     24K 
                Based Compensation (Details)                                     
36: R24         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Stock  HTML     47K 
                Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (Details)               
37: R25         Fair Value Measurements - Security Type (Details)   HTML     66K 
38: R26         Fair Value Measurements - Securities With           HTML     41K 
                Unrealized Losses (Details)                                      
39: R27         Fair Value Measurements - Recurring Basis           HTML     43K 
                (Details)                                                        
40: R28         Fair Value Measurements - Equity Investment         HTML     45K 
                (Details)                                                        
41: R29         Former Collaboration Agreement (Details)            HTML     24K 
42: R30         Operating Leases (Details)                          HTML     37K 
43: R31         Operating Leases - Future Non-Cancellable Lease     HTML     35K 
                Payments (Details)                                               
44: R32         DEBT - Additional Information (Details)             HTML     74K 
45: R33         DEBT - Schedule of Future Minimum Payments Under    HTML     39K 
                Term Loan Facility (Details)                                     
46: R34         Stockholders' Equity - Public Offering (Details)    HTML     39K 
47: R35         Stockholders' Equity - at Market Issuance Sales     HTML     33K 
                Agreement (Details)                                              
48: R36         Stockholders' Equity - 2018 Inducement Award Plan   HTML     20K 
                (Details)                                                        
49: R37         Stockholders' Equity - 2018 Equity Incentive Plan   HTML     20K 
                (Details)                                                        
51: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     87K 
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50: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     71K 
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10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- gern-20200930_lab                     XML    879K 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- gern-20200930_pre              XML    601K 
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52: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              261±   398K 
53: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001564590-20-051288-xbrl      Zip    299K

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