Press Release: Terns Pharmaceuticals Reports Inducement Grants to New Employees Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(C)(4)

Dow Jones04-03

FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Terns" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: TERN), a clinical-stage oncology company, today announced that it has granted as of April 1, 2026 equity inducement awards to three new employees under the terms of the 2022 Employment Inducement Award Plan, as amended. The equity awards were approved by the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) and were made as a material inducement to the employees' acceptance of employment with Terns.

The Company granted 23,316 restricted stock units (the "RSUs"), in the aggregate, of Terns common stock to the new employees. The RSUs vest over four years, subject to the employees' continued service through the applicable vesting dates.

About Terns Pharmaceuticals

Terns Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage oncology company reimagining known biology to deliver high impact medicines. Our lead program, TERN-701, is a highly selective, oral, allosteric BCR-ABL inhibitor with a potentially best-in-disease profile that could meaningfully improve upon the efficacy, safety and convenience of existing treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia. For more information, please visit: www.ternspharma.com.

Contacts for Terns

Investors

Justin Ng

investors@ternspharma.com

Media

Jenna Urban

CG Life

media@ternspharma.com

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April 02, 2026 16:05 ET (20:05 GMT)

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