---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-036556"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RCKT"
cik: "0001281895"
company_name: "ROCKET PHARMACEUTICALS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:22:14.892277+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rocket Pharmaceuticals appoints Dr. Peter Fong to Board; Dr. Gotham Makker resigns

## Summary
- Dr. Gotham Makker resigned from the Board effective Sept 24, 2025; no disagreement on operations, policies, or practices.
- Dr. Peter Fong, President of RTW Investments LP, appointed to Board effective Sept 24, 2025.
- Fong receives 30,000 RSUs vesting in equal monthly installments over three years.
- Fong also receives 23,333 RSUs vesting fully on the first anniversary of grant date.
- No family relationships or related person transactions between Fong and the Company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-036556
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RCKT
- cik: 0001281895
- company_name: ROCKET PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1281895/000114036125036556/0001140361-25-036556-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1281895/000114036125036556/ef20056168_8k.htm

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