LB Pharmaceuticals Reports Inducement Grant to New Employee Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LB Pharmaceuticals Inc (“LB Pharmaceuticals” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LBRX) today announced that it has granted to Ellen Rose, the new Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Lindsay Beaupre, the new Senior Vice President of People and Culture of LB Pharmaceuticals, equity awards outside of, but subject to the terms and conditions of, the LB Pharmaceuticals Inc 2025 Equity Incentive Plan. The equity award was granted on January 9, 2026, pursuant to the “inducement grant” exception provided under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) as an inducement material to Ms. Rose and Ms. Beaupre entering into employment with LB Pharmaceuticals.

Ms. Rose and Ms. Beaupre received options to purchase 100,000 and 75,000 shares of LB Pharmaceuticals’ common stock, respectively. The options carry a ten-year term and an exercise price per share equal to $20.73, which was the closing price of LB Pharmaceuticals’ common stock on the date of grant, and vests over 4 years, with 25% of the shares underlying the options vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date and an additional 1/48thof the shares vesting monthly thereafter, subject to continuous service through the applicable vesting dates.

LB-102 is a Phase 3-ready oral, small molecule and a methylated derivative of amisulpride. In early 2025, LB Pharmaceuticals announced positive data from a four-week placebo-controlled, double-blinded, Phase 2 trial in patients with acute schizophrenia. The Phase 2 trial demonstrated statistically significant benefit versus placebo at all doses studied, a potentially class leading safety profile among D2 antagonists and partial agonists, and positive effects on negative symptoms and cognition. LB-102 is advancing into a Phase 3 clinical trial for acute schizophrenia and a Phase 2 clinical trial for bipolar depression. Additional expansion opportunities for LB-102 could include major depressive disorder (MDD), predominantly negative symptoms of schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease psychosis and agitation, as well as bipolar mania and cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia.

LB Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar depression, and other neuropsychiatric diseases. The Company is building a pipeline that leverages the broad therapeutic potential of its lead product candidate, LB-102, which the Company believes has the potential to be the first benzamide antipsychotic drug approved for neuropsychiatric disorders in the United States. LB-102, if approved, has the potential to become a mainstay of psychiatric practice by offering a potentially attractive alternative to branded and generic therapeutics for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar depression, and other neuropsychiatric diseases.