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accession: "0000950170-24-064561"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SPRB"
cik: "0001683553"
company_name: "SPRUCE BIOSCIENCES, INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T08:45:18.323478+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stockholders elect Tiba Aynechi and Kirk Ways as Class I directors; ratify BDO USA as auditor at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- Tiba Aynechi, Ph.D. elected with 19,761,274 votes for, 639,508 withheld; 10,667,525 broker non-votes.
- Kirk Ways, M.D., Ph.D. elected with 19,286,428 votes for, 1,114,354 withheld; 10,667,525 broker non-votes.
- BDO USA, LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY 2024 with 30,581,608 votes for, 436,679 against, 50,020 abstentions.
- As of March 25, 2024 record date, 41,152,616 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-064561
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SPRB
- cik: 0001683553
- company_name: SPRUCE BIOSCIENCES, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1683553/000095017024064561/0000950170-24-064561-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1683553/000095017024064561/sprb-20240522.htm

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