# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001679363
**File Stem:** 0001679363-23-000002
**Filing Date:** 2023-1
**Character Count:** 6318
**Document Hash:** eceaabbc9b4894c9c3d4105c5d9e16c0
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001679363-23-000002.hdr.sgml**: 20230120

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001679363-23-000002

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230113

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230120

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230120

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Morphic Holding, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001679363
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 473878772
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38940
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23541656

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 35 GATEHOUSE DRIVE A2
- **CITY:** WALTHAM
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02451
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 9787296480

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 35 GATEHOUSE DRIVE A2
- **CITY:** WALTHAM
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02451

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Morphic Holding, LLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20160712

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

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**FORM 8-K**

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**CURRENT REPORT**

**Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)**

**of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

**Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 13, 2023**

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**Morphic Holding, Inc.**

**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)**

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| **Delaware** | **001-38940** | **47-3878772** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of**<br>**incorporation or organization)** | **(Commission**<br>**File Number)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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| **35 Gatehouse Drive, A2** | **35 Gatehouse Drive, A2** | |
| **Waltham,** | **Massachusetts** | **02451** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (781) 996-0955**

**Not Applicable**

**(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading**<br>**Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share | MORF | The Nasdaq Global Market |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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**Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement**

On January 13, 2023, Morphic Holding, Inc. (the "Company") received notice from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Janssen") that Janssen has elected to terminate the Research Collaboration and Option Agreement between Janssen and Morphic Therapeutic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company ("Morphic"), dated February 15, 2019 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Research Collaboration and Option Agreement between Morphic and Janssen, dated as of December 30, 2020, and as further expanded and amended to include research to develop antibody activators for an undisclosed integrin target by Amendment No. 2 to the Research Collaboration and Option Agreement between Morphic and Janssen, dated as of June 18, 2021, the "Collaboration Agreement"). Janssen exercised its right to terminate the Collaboration Agreement for convenience. The termination will be effective within sixty days of January 13, 2023.

Under the terms of the Collaboration Agreement, Morphic granted Janssen exclusive license options on certain product candidates directed at multiple targets. The termination follows Janssen's delivery of notice to the Company that it did not intend to exercise its options on the first two integrin targets under the Collaboration Agreement due to lack of target validation in the specific disease of Janssen's interest. Effective upon the termination of the Collaboration Agreement, all rights and licenses granted thereunder shall immediately terminate.

The foregoing summary of the terms of the Collaboration Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Collaboration Agreement, Amendment No. 1 to the Collaboration Agreement and Amendment No. 2 to the Collaboration Agreement, which were filed as Exhibits 10.10, 10.16 and 10.17, respectively, to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| | **MORPHIC HOLDING, INC.** | **MORPHIC HOLDING, INC.** |
| Date: January 20, 2023 | By: | /s/ Marc Schegerin |
|  |  | Marc Schegerin, M.D. |
|  |  | Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer |

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