secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     GERON CORP (GERN)
CIK:        0000886744
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000886744-25-000032
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000088674425000032/0000886744-25-000032-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000088674425000032/gern-20250521.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000886744-25-000032

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