---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001079973-25-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LWLG"
cik: "0001325964"
company_name: "Lightwave Logic, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T17:56:27.594082+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lightwave Logic director Fred Leonberger retires from Board, joins Advisory Board

## Summary
- Fred Leonberger resigned from the Board on Dec 27, 2024, effective Dec 31, 2024, due to retirement.
- Resignation not related to any disagreement with the Company, management, or Board.
- Effective Jan 1, 2025, Dr. Leonberger became a member of the Company's Advisory Board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001079973-25-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LWLG
- cik: 0001325964
- company_name: Lightwave Logic, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997325000012/0001079973-25-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997325000012/lwlg_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001079973-25-000012
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001079973-25-000012.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001079973-25-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Fred Leonberger resigned as Member of the Board of Directors at Lightwave Logic, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: On December 27, 2024, Fred Leonberger tendered his resignation as a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lightwave Logic, Inc. (the “Company”) effective December 31, 2024 in connection with his retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997325000012/0001079973-25-000012-index.htm
- Executive change
  Fred Leonberger was appointed as Member of the Advisory Board at Lightwave Logic, Inc..
  - Action: became a member
  - Role: Member of the Advisory Board
  source text: On January 1, 2025, Dr. Leonberger became a member of the Company’s Advisory Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997325000012/0001079973-25-000012-index.htm

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