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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 15, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scholar Rock (NASDAQ: SRRK; the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing innovative treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, cardiometabolic disorders, and other serious diseases where protein growth factors play a fundamental role, today announced that the company granted inducement equity awards covering an aggregate of 100,500 shares of its common stock to four newly hired employees, consisting of inducement stock options to purchase an aggregate of 57,429 shares of common stock and inducement restricted stock units, covering an aggregate of 43,071 shares of its common stock.
The awards are subject to all terms and conditions and other provisions set forth in the Company’s 2022 Inducement Equity Plan (the "Plan") and the award agreements thereunder.
The Plan, initially adopted by the Company’s board of directors on June 16, 2022, and as amended from time to time, is used exclusively for the grant of equity awards to individuals who were not previously employees of Scholar Rock, or following a bona fide period of non-employment, as an inducement material to such individuals entering into employment with Scholar Rock, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The inducement stock options have an exercise price of $28.15, which is equal to the closing price of Scholar Rock’s common stock on November 11, 2024. The inducement stock options will vest with respect to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying the award on the first anniversary of each employee’s start date, and the remaining 75% of the shares of common stock underlying the inducement stock options will vest in 12 equal quarterly installments thereafter. Vesting for the inducement restricted stock units will be in four equal annual installments. All vesting related to inducement awards is subject to the employees’ continuing service at the Company through the applicable vesting date.
About Scholar Rock
Scholar Rock is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and delivers life-changing therapies for people with serious diseases that have high unmet need. As a global leader in the biology of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) superfamily of cell proteins and named for the visual resemblance of a scholar rock to protein structures, the clinical-stage company is focused on advancing innovative treatments where protein growth factors are fundamental. Over the past decade, Scholar Rock has created a pipeline with the potential to advance the standard of care for neuromuscular disease, cardiometabolic disorders, cancer, and other conditions where growth factor-targeted drugs can play a transformational role.