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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-083561"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CERS"
cik: "0001020214"
company_name: "CERUS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T16:39:27.302158+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cerus shareholders elect two directors, approve equity plan amendment at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Jami Dover Nachtsheim and Hua Shan elected to board with 107.0M and 111.4M votes for, respectively.
- Amendment and restatement of 2024 Equity Incentive Plan approved: 74.3M for, 39.5M against.
- Advisory say-on-pay vote passed: 104.5M for, 9.3M against, 206K abstentions.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor for FY2025: 153.2M for, 4.3M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-083561
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CERS
- cik: 0001020214
- company_name: CERUS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020214/000095017025083561/0000950170-25-083561-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020214/000095017025083561/cers-20250603.htm

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