---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001698530-24-000110"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XCUR"
cik: "0001698530"
company_name: "EXICURE, INC."
filed_at: "2024-09-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T00:46:25.035688+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Exicure sells core SNA technology to Flashpoint for $1.5M; appoints new director

## Summary
- Sold spherical nucleic acid technology, R&D programs, and clinical assets to Flashpoint Therapeutics for $1.5 million gross proceeds.
- Will receive royalties on future licensing or sublicensing of the assets by Flashpoint.
- Board increased to seven; Eui Yull Hwang appointed as independent Class II director.
- No material relationship exists between Exicure and Flashpoint aside from the transaction.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001698530-24-000110
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XCUR
- cik: 0001698530
- company_name: EXICURE, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-09-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853024000110/0001698530-24-000110-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853024000110/xcur-20240930.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001698530-24-000110
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001698530-24-000110.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001698530-24-000110.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eui Yull Hwang was appointed as Independent Director at EXICURE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Independent Director
  source text: On September 26, 2024, the Board increased the size of the Board from six directors to seven directors and appointed Eui Yull Hwang as an independent director to fill the vacancy.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853024000110/0001698530-24-000110-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.