NEWTON, Mass., May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today announced that in connection with the hiring of Reshma Rangwala, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, the Compensation Committee of Karyopharm's Board of Directors (the "Compensation Committee") granted a stock option to purchase 100,000 shares of Karyopharm's common stock and 65,000 restricted stock units ("RSUs") to Dr. Rangwala, with a grant date of April 29, 2022.
The Compensation Committee also granted stock options to purchase an aggregate of 36,800 shares of Karyopharm's common stock and an aggregate of 25,400 RSUs to twelve newly-hired employees. These equity awards were granted as of April 29, 2022 pursuant to the Company's 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan.
These equity awards were granted pursuant to the Company's 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan as an inducement material to the new employees entering into employment with Karyopharm in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). Each of the stock options has an exercise price of $6.10 per share, the closing price of Karyopharm's common stock on April 29, 2022. Each stock option will vest over four years, with 25% of the total number of shares underlying the stock option vesting on the one-year anniversary of the applicable employee's employment commencement date and 1/48th of the total number of shares vesting monthly thereafter. Each RSU award will vest over four years, with 25% percent of the shares underlying the RSU award vesting on each of the four consecutive anniversaries of the applicable employee's employment commencement date. The vesting of each inducement award is subject to the employee's continued service as an employee of, or other service provider to, Karyopharm through the applicable vesting dates. In addition, each stock option and RSU award will be immediately exercisable in full if, on or prior to the first anniversary of the consummation of a "change in control event," the employee's employment is terminated for "good reason" by the employee or terminated without "cause" by Karyopharm (as such terms are defined in the applicable stock option or RSU agreement).
About Karyopharm Therapeutics
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies. Since its founding, Karyopharm has been the industry leader in oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound technology, which was developed to address a fundamental mechanism of oncogenesis: nuclear export dysregulation. Karyopharm's lead SINE compound and first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, XPOVIO® (selinexor), is approved in the U.S. and marketed by the Company in three oncology indications and has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe and the United Kingdom (as NEXPOVIO®), China and Singapore. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in endometrial cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelofibrosis. For more information about our people, science and pipeline, please visit www.karyopharm.com, and follow us on Twitter at @Karyopharm and LinkedIn.
XPOVIO® and NEXPOVIO® are registered trademarks of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.
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