Fulcrum Therapeutics® Reports Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)
Fulcrum Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FULC) announced on June 10, 2022, the grant of nonstatutory stock options to eight new employees, totaling 112,800 shares.
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Fulcrum Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FULC) announced on June 10, 2022, the grant of nonstatutory stock options to eight new employees, totaling 112,800 shares. These options, with an exercise price of $7.53 per share, are designed as inducement awards under the 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan.
Vesting occurs over four years, with 25% vesting after one year and the remainder in quarterly installments. Fulcrum focuses on developing therapies for genetically defined rare diseases, including treatments for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and sickle cell disease.
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- Successful recruitment of eight new employees.
- Stock options granted as inducements may enhance employee retention.
- Targeted focus on therapies for rare diseases with high unmet medical needs.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FULC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of patients with genetically defined rare diseases, today announced that the Company granted nonstatutory stock options to new employees as inducement awards outside of the Company’s 2019 Stock Incentive Plan. Fulcrum granted stock options to purchase an aggregate of 112,800 shares of the Company’s common stock to eight new employees. The awards were granted as of June 6, 2022, pursuant to the Company’s 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan, each as an inducement material to the new employees entering into employment with the Fulcrum Therapeutics in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
Each of the options has an exercise price of
About Fulcrum Therapeutics
Fulcrum Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of patients with genetically defined rare diseases in areas of high unmet medical need. Fulcrum’s two lead programs in clinical development are losmapimod, a small molecule for the treatment of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and FTX-6058, a small molecule designed to increase expression of fetal hemoglobin for the treatment of sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies, including beta-thalassemia. The company’s proprietary product engine, FulcrumSeek™, identifies drug targets that can modulate gene expression to treat the known root cause of gene mis-expression.
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Dee Smith
Executive Director, Corporate Communications
Fulcrum Therapeutics
(202) 746-1324
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