BERKELEY, CA --(Marketwired - December 05, 2017) - Dynavax Technologies Corporation (
Dynavax granted stock options to purchase shares of Dynavax's common stock to the new employees with an exercise price of $18.40 per share, the closing price of Dynavax's common stock on December 1, 2017, the effective date of such grants. The stock options and restricted stock units vest as follows: certain of the stock options and all of the restricted stock units vest immediately upon achievement of one or more performance conditions, and the remaining stock options awarded vest over a three-year period, with one-third of the shares subject to such awards vesting on the first anniversary of the award's vesting commencement date, and the remaining shares vesting in equal monthly installments thereafter, subject to each such employee's continued employment with Dynavax on such vesting dates.
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About Dynavax
Dynavax is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on leveraging the power of the body's innate and adaptive immune responses through toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation. Dynavax discovers and develops novel vaccines and immuno-oncology therapeutics. The Company's first commercial product, HEPLISAV-B™ [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted], is approved in the United States. Dynavax's lead immunotherapy product, SD-101, is an investigational cancer immunotherapeutic currently being evaluated in Phase 1/2 studies and its second cancer immunotherapeutic, DV281, is in Phase 1 development. For more information, visit www.dynavax.com .
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