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Why Scholar Rock Stock Flew High Today

Shares of Scholar Rock Holding (NASDAQ: SRRK) had jumped by more than 25.8% as of 2:32 p.m. ET on Monday after it disclosed in a financial filing that one of its directors, a venture capital investor named Amir Nashat, had purchased upward of $5.87 million worth of the company's shares on June 22. The investor is a high-ranking executive at the venture capital group Polaris Partners, which invests in biotechnology businesses like Scholar Rock. Plus, the shares and warrants are both held by the venture capital firm rather than by Nashat directly, though he does independently own a small number of shares.