Press Releases April 16, 2026 08:00 PM

4DMT Announces New Employment Inducement Grants

4DMT grants 67,600 RSUs to new non-executive employees under inducement award plan

By Priya Menon FDMT
4DMT Announces New Employment Inducement Grants
FDMT

4D Molecular Therapeutics announced equity inducement grants of 67,600 Restricted Stock Units to five new non-executive employees as part of its 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan. The grants aim to attract talent to support the company’s development of late-stage gene therapies targeting retinal diseases and cystic fibrosis.

Key Points

  • 4DMT granted 67,600 RSUs to five new non-executive employees to induce employment.
  • The company is advancing late-stage clinical programs including 4D-150 for wet age-related macular degeneration and 4D-710 for cystic fibrosis.
  • These equity awards are part of Nasdaq Rule 5635(c)(4) compliance for inducement grants outside traditional plans.

EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 4D Molecular Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FDMT, 4DMT or the Company), a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing durable and disease-targeted therapeutics with potential to transform treatment paradigms and provide unprecedented benefits to patients, today announced that on April 14, 2026, the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors granted five new non-executive employees 67,600 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The RSUs were granted pursuant to the Company’s 2025 Employment Inducement Award Plan, as amended, under Rule 5635(c)(4) of The Nasdaq Global Market for equity grants to induce new employees to enter into employment with the Company.

About 4DMT

4DMT is a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing durable and disease-targeted therapeutics with potential to transform treatment paradigms and provide unprecedented benefits to patients. The Company’s lead product candidate 4D-150 is designed to be a backbone therapy forming the foundation of treatment of blinding retinal vascular diseases by providing multi-year sustained delivery of anti-VEGF (aflibercept and anti-VEGF-C) with a single, safe, intravitreal injection, which substantially reduces the treatment burden associated with current bolus injections. The Company’s lead indication for 4D-150 is wet age-related macular degeneration, which is currently in Phase 3 development, and second indication is diabetic macular edema. The Company’s second product candidate is 4D-710, which is the first known genetic medicine to demonstrate successful delivery and expression of the CFTR transgene in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis after aerosol delivery. 4D Molecular Therapeutics™, 4DMT™, Therapeutic Vector Evolution™, and the 4DMT logo are trademarks of 4DMT.

All of the Company’s product candidates are in clinical or preclinical development and have not yet been approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other regulatory authority. No representation is made as to the safety or effectiveness of the Company’s product candidates for the therapeutic uses for which they are being studied.

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Risks

  • All product candidates are in clinical or preclinical stages and not yet FDA-approved, posing developmental and regulatory risks.
  • Effectiveness and safety of the therapies are not yet established, which could impact future commercial viability.
  • Market acceptance of gene therapies within ophthalmology and pulmonary sectors remains uncertain, potentially affecting long-term growth.

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