---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-015365"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CERS"
cik: "0001020214"
company_name: "CERUS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T01:19:51.828164+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Gail Schulze to not stand for re-election at Cerus 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Gail Schulze notified Cerus on Feb 2, 2025 that she will not stand for re-election.
- Her term as director expires at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
- Decision not due to any disagreement with Cerus's operations, policies, or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-015365
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CERS
- cik: 0001020214
- company_name: CERUS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020214/000095017025015365/0000950170-25-015365-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020214/000095017025015365/cers-20250202.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-015365
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-015365.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-015365.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gail Schulze departed as Director at CERUS CORP.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 2, 2025, Gail Schulze, a member of the class of directors whose terms of office expire at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”) of Cerus Corporation (the “Company”), informed the Company that she would not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020214/000095017025015365/0000950170-25-015365-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.