• Fulcrum Therapeutics Reports Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)

    ソース: Nasdaq GlobeNewswire / 22 3 2024 16:30:00   America/New_York

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc.® (Nasdaq: FULC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to improve the lives of patients with genetically defined rare diseases, today announced that the company granted non-statutory stock options to Patrick Horn, M.D., Ph.D., the company’s newly appointed chief medical officer. Fulcrum granted stock options to purchase shares of the company’s common stock pursuant to the company’s 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, or the plan, as an inducement material to the new employees entering into employment with Fulcrum in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

    Fulcrum granted Dr. Horn a non-statutory option to purchase 400,000 shares of the company’s common stock, with an exercise price of $10.12 per share, the closing price per share of the company’s common stock as reported by Nasdaq on the grants’ effective date, March 18, 2024. Dr. Horn’s stock option to purchase 400,000 shares of Fulcrum’s common stock has a ten-year term and vests over four years, with 25% of the original number of shares vesting on the first anniversary of Dr. Horn’s start date and an additional 6.25% of the shares vesting in equal quarterly installments over the 12 successive quarters following the first anniversary, subject to Dr. Horn’s continued service with the company through the applicable vesting dates.

    About Fulcrum Therapeutics

    Fulcrum Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to improve 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 in development for the treatment of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), and pociredir, a small molecule designed to increase expression of fetal hemoglobin and in development for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Fulcrum uses proprietary technology to identify drug targets that can modulate gene expression to treat the known root cause of gene mis-expression. For more information, visit www.fulcrumtx.com and follow us on Twitter/X (@FulcrumTx) and LinkedIn.

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    Chris Calabrese
    LifeSci Advisors, LLC
    ccalabrese@lifesciadvisors.com
    917-680-5608


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