NEWTON, Mass., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today announced that on September 30, 2022 (the Grant Date), the Company granted a stock option to purchase 1,200 shares of Karyopharm's common stock and an award of 800 restricted stock units (RSUs) to one newly-hired employee. The stock option has an exercise price of $5.46 per share, the closing price of Karyopharm's common stock on the Grant Date. The 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 employee's employment commencement date and 1/48th of the total number of shares vesting monthly thereafter. The 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 employee's employment commencement date.
In addition, the Company granted a stock option to purchase 100,000 shares of Karyopharm's common stock and an award of 65,000 RSUs to Lisa DiPaolo, the Company's newly hired Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer & Head of People and Culture, on the Grant Date. The option has an exercise price of $5.46 per share, the closing price of Karyopharm's common stock on the Grant Date. The 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 Ms. DiPaolo's employment commencement date and 1/48th of the total number of shares vesting monthly thereafter.The RSU award will vest as to 50% of the shares underlying the award, on each of the two consecutive anniversaries of Ms. DiPaolo's employment commencement date.
Each of these equity awards were granted pursuant to the Company's 2022 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, as inducements material to the new employees entering into employment with Karyopharm in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). 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®) and China, Singapore, Canada, Israel, South Korea and Australia. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in multiple myeloma, 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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