Chimerix Reports Inducement Grants under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(4)
April 17, 2024 at 09:58 am EDT
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DURHAM - Chimerix (NASDAQ: CMRX) today announced that on April 10, 2024, the Compensation Committee of Chimerix's Board of Directors granted inducement awards to four new employees of non-statutory stock options to purchase up to a total of 223,000 shares of Chimerix's common stock.
The Compensation Committee of Chimerix's Board of Directors approved the awards as an inducement material to the new employees' employment in accordance with Nasdaq Listing rule 5635(4).
The stock options have an exercise price per share equal to Chimerix's closing trading price as of the grant date. The stock options have a 10-year term and will vest over four years, with one-fourth vesting on the one-year anniversary of the date of hire and the remaining three-fourths vesting over the following three years in equal monthly installments. The stock options are subject to the terms of Chimerix's 2013 Equity Incentive Plan but were granted outside of the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
Chimerix is a biopharmaceutical company with a mission to develop medicines that meaningfully improve and extend the lives of patients facing deadly diseases. The Company's most advanced clinical-stage development program, ONC201, is in development for H3 K27M-mutant glioma.
Chimerix, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is focused on developing medicines that address unmet medical needs. The Company's product Imipridones is a cancer therapy that provides ONC201, which is in clinical-stage development for H3 K27M-mutant glioma as its lead indication. In addition, imipridone ONC206 is in dose-escalating clinical trials. Imipridones target specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and mitochondrial caseinolytic protease P (ClpP), resulting in cancer cell death. The Company's product Imipridone chemical scaffold provides an opportunity to target GPCRs and ClpP with tunable specificity and modality, which enables therapeutic use for cancer and other diseases. Its ONC206 is an imipridone, Dopamine Receptor D2 (DRD2) antagonist and ClpP agonist. Its ONC212 is an imipridone, an investigational agonist of the orphan GPCR tumor suppressor GPR132, as well as ClpP. Its CMX521 is a nucleoside analog antiviral drug candidate for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2.