Fulcrum Therapeutics® Reports Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)
Fulcrum Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FULC) announced the granting of stock options to six new employees as part of its 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan.
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Fulcrum Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FULC) announced the granting of stock options to six new employees as part of its 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan. A total of 148,320 stock options, exercisable at $24.00 per share, have been awarded. The options vest over four years, with 25% vesting on the first anniversary of employment and the remainder vesting quarterly thereafter. Fulcrum, focused on genetically defined rare diseases, is developing therapies such as losmapimod for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and FTX-6058 for sickle cell disease.
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- Granting of stock options to six new employees, indicating company growth and recruitment efforts.
- Stock options awarded under the 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan align employee interests with shareholder value.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 08, 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 148,320 shares of the Company’s common stock to six new employees. The awards were granted as of April 4, 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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Naomi Aoki
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and Investor Relations
naoki@fulcrumtx.com
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