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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000886744-25-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GERN"
cik: "0000886744"
company_name: "GERON CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T12:25:17.905510+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Geron shareholders approve 20M share increase for equity plan, 6M for ESPP at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Shareholders elected Dawn C. Bir and Elizabeth G. O'Farrell as Class II directors with over 384M and 381M votes for.
- Amendment to 2018 Equity Incentive Plan approved: 20M additional shares authorized (360.5M for, 35.8M against, 0.5M abstain).
- Amendment to 2014 ESPP approved: 6M additional shares authorized (369.8M for, 26.6M against, 0.4M abstain).
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved with 361.8M votes for, 33.9M against, 1.0M abstain.
- Ernst & Young LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2025 with 472.4M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000886744-25-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GERN
- cik: 0000886744
- company_name: GERON CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000088674425000032/0000886744-25-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000088674425000032/gern-20250521.htm

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