Tag: therapeutics

SAN DIEGO, July 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to bringing a first-in-class pipeline of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cellular immunotherapies to patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced that on July 2, 2025 the Company granted (i) non-qualified stock options to one newly-hired non-executive employee to purchase a total of 30,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price per share of $1.12, which was the closing price per share of the Company’s common stock as reported by NASDAQ on July 2, 2025, the options grant date, and (ii) restricted stock units (RSUs) representing 37,900 shares of its common stock to two newly-hired non-executive employees. The grants were approved by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors and granted under the Company’s Amended and Restated Inducement Equity Plan as an inducement material to the new employees entering into employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). The options will vest over four years, with 25% of the shares underlying the option vesting on the one-year anniversary of the grant date and the remaining 75% vesting in approximately equal monthly installments over the following thirty-six months, subject to the employee being continuously employed by the Company through each vesting date. The RSUs will vest over four years, with 25% of the shares underlying each RSU award vesting on each anniversary of the grant date, subject to the employees being continuously employed by the Company through each vesting date.

Adverse events were generally low-grade, transient, and readily manageable

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX) today announced that the compensation committee of BioCryst’s board of directors granted eight newly-hired employees restricted stock units (RSUs) covering an aggregate of 57,000 shares of BioCryst common stock. The RSUs were granted as of July 1, 2025, as inducements material to each employee entering into employment with BioCryst. The RSUs were granted in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

Essential Pharma appoints experienced pharmaceutical leaders Simon Ramsden and Rob Smith to leadership team

Drug candidate is one of several oncology assets approaching or in clinical development, discovered through Oxford BioTherapeutics’ proprietary OGAP®-Verify discovery platform

NEW YORK, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Class Action Attorney Juan Monteverde with Monteverde & Associates PC (the “M&A Class Action Firm”), has recovered millions of dollars for shareholders and is recognized as a Top 50 Firm in the 2024 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report. The firm is headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City and is investigating Launch One Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: LPAA) related to its merger with Minovia Therapeutics Ltd., in which Launch One shareholders will be eligible for a one-to-one exchange of shares in the new company, Mito US One Ltd. Is it a fair deal?

WALTHAM, Mass., July 02, 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 July 1, 2025, the company granted non-qualified stock options to purchase 10,700 shares of its common stock to two new employees under Xilio Therapeutics’ 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan.