4DMT Announces New Employment Inducement Grants

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4D Molecular Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FDMT), a late-stage biotechnology company, has granted 58,900 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to three new non-executive employees. The compensation committee approved these inducement grants on August 12, 2025.

The RSUs were awarded under the Company's 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan, which was established in February 2025. This plan operates under Nasdaq Global Market Rule 5635(c)(4), specifically designed for equity grants used to attract new employees to the company.

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 4D Molecular Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FDMT, 4DMT or the Company), a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing durable and disease-targeted therapeutics with potential to transform treatment paradigms and provide unprecedented benefits to patients, today announced that on August 12, 2025, the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors granted three new non-executive employees 58,900 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The RSUs were granted pursuant to the Company’s 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan, which was approved by the Company’s board of directors in February 2025 under Rule 5635(c)(4) of The Nasdaq Global Market for equity grants to induce new employees to enter into employment with the Company.

About 4DMT

4DMT is a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing durable and disease-targeted therapeutics with potential to transform treatment paradigms and provide unprecedented benefits to patients. The Company’s lead product candidate 4D-150 is designed to be a backbone therapy forming the foundation of treatment of blinding retinal vascular diseases by providing multi-year sustained delivery of anti-VEGF (aflibercept and anti-VEGF-C) with a single, safe, intravitreal injection, which substantially reduces the treatment burden associated with current bolus injections. The Company’s lead indication for 4D-150 is wet age-related macular degeneration, which is currently in Phase 3 development, and second indication is diabetic macular edema. The Company’s second product candidate is 4D-710, which is the first known genetic medicine to demonstrate successful delivery and expression of the CFTR transgene in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis after aerosol delivery. 4D Molecular Therapeutics™, 4DMT™, Therapeutic Vector Evolution™, and the 4DMT logo are trademarks of 4DMT.

All of the Company’s product candidates are in clinical or preclinical development and have not yet been approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other regulatory authority. No representation is made as to the safety or effectiveness of the Company’s product candidates for the therapeutic uses for which they are being studied.

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Contacts:

Media:

Jenn Gordon
dna Communications
Media@4DMT.com

Investors:

Julian Pei
Head of Investor Relations and Strategic Finance
Investor.Relations@4DMT.com

FAQ

What type of stock compensation did 4DMT (FDMT) grant to new employees in August 2025?

4DMT granted 58,900 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to three new non-executive employees on August 12, 2025.

When was 4DMT's Employment Inducement Award Plan approved?

The 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan was approved by 4DMT's board of directors in February 2025.

Under which Nasdaq rule were 4DMT's employee inducement grants made?

The grants were made under Rule 5635(c)(4) of The Nasdaq Global Market, which governs equity grants used to induce new employees.

How many new employees received RSU grants from 4DMT in August 2025?

Three new non-executive employees received RSU grants from 4DMT.