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VANCOUVER, British Columbia and BOSTON, Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: XENE), a neuroscience-focused biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering life-changing therapeutics for patients in need, today announced equity inducement grants to six new non-officer employees consisting of an aggregate of 24,200 share options. All of the foregoing share options were approved by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors with an effective date of July 31, 2025 and were granted as inducements material to the employees entering into employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ORIC), a clinical stage oncology company focused on developing treatments that address mechanisms of therapeutic resistance, today announced that on August 1, 2025 (the “Grant Date”), ORIC granted a total of 35,000 non-qualified stock options and 5,800 restricted stock units to two new non-executive employees who began their employment with ORIC in July 2025.

WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xilio Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing tumor-activated immuno-oncology therapies for people living with cancer, today announced that, effective August 1, 2025, the company granted non-qualified stock options to purchase 134,000 shares of its common stock to two new employees under Xilio Therapeutics’ 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akebia Therapeutics^®, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, granted four newly-hired employees options to purchase an aggregate of 238,500 shares of Akebia’s common stock on July 31, 2025. The options were granted as an inducement material to each employee entering into employment with Akebia. The options were granted in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prime Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRME), a biotechnology company committed to delivering a new class of differentiated one-time curative genetic therapies, today announced the closing of its underwritten public offering of 43,700,000 shares of its common stock, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase 5,700,000 additional shares of its common stock, at a public offering price of $3.30 per share. The underwriters did not receive any discounts or commissions with respect to an aggregate of 1,818,181 shares of common stock sold to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. All of the shares of common stock in the offering were sold by Prime Medicine. The gross proceeds to Prime Medicine from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses, were approximately $144.2 million.

Selangor, Malaysia, Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empro Group Inc. (the “Company” or “EMPG”), a rising beauty and personal care brand headquartered in Malaysia, today announced that it closed the sales of an additional 91,250 ordinary shares of the Company, representing the exercise of the remaining portion of the underwriter’s over-allotment option granted in connection with the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO”, and together with such over-allotment closing, the “Offering”), at the IPO price of $4.00 per share, less underwriting discounts. As a result, the Company has raised gross proceeds of $365,000 in addition to the previously announced IPO gross proceeds of approximately $5,500,000 and the previously announced gross proceeds of $460,000 arising from the partial exercise by the underwriter of its over-allotment option that closed on July 30, 2025, for aggregate gross of proceeds of $6,325,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses.

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