4DMT Announces New Employment Inducement Grants
4D Molecular Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FDMT) reported that on August 11, 2026, its board compensation committee granted an aggregate 35,200 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to five new non-executive employees.
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4D Molecular Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FDMT) reported that on August 11, 2026, its board compensation committee granted an aggregate 35,200 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to five new non-executive employees. The awards were made under the company’s 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan, in accordance with Nasdaq Rule 5635(c)(4) for equity grants used to attract new hires.
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Market move: FDMT +19.32% in the Aug 17 session. employment inducement grants
On Aug 17, the first trading day after this news, FDMT closed 19.32% above the previous close. Argus tracked a peak move of +17.7% during that session. Our momentum scanner recorded 93 alerts for this stock that day. Relative volume reached 7.7x the daily average during tracking.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus for the Aug 17 session.
Key Figures
- Employees receiving grants
- five employees
- August 11, 2026 inducement awards
- Restricted stock units
- 35,200 RSUs
- August 11, 2026 employment inducement grants
Historical Context
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Granted 37,900 RSUs to six new non-executive employees
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Announced presentation of 2-year PRISM Phase 2b follow-up data
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Completed global enrollment for the 4FRONT-2 wet AMD trial
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Secured Hercules Capital facility providing up to $200 million
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Granted 66,900 RSUs to seven new non-executive employees
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2026 (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 11, 2026, the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors granted five new non-executive employees 35,200 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The RSUs were granted pursuant to the Company’s 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan, as amended, 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 biologics (aflibercept and anti-VEGF-C) with a single 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™, Backbone 4 Retina™ 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.
Learn more at www.4DMT.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Contacts: Media: Jenn Gordon dna Communications Media@4DMT.com Investors: Julian Pei Head of Investor Relations and Strategic Finance Investor.Relations@4DMT.com
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