---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-042566"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SGMT"
cik: "0001400118"
company_name: "Sagimet Biosciences Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T02:11:08.600379+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sagimet Biosciences director Merdad Parsey will not stand for re-election at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Merdad Parsey, M.D., Ph.D., notified Board on April 29, 2025 he will not seek re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting scheduled June 9, 2025.
- Dr. Parsey will continue as director until the Annual Meeting; departure not due to any disagreement with the Company.
- No successor or replacement was announced; board size and composition implications unclear.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-042566
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SGMT
- cik: 0001400118
- company_name: Sagimet Biosciences Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1400118/000110465925042566/0001104659-25-042566-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1400118/000110465925042566/tm2513616d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-042566
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-042566.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-042566.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Merdad Parsey departed as Director at Sagimet Biosciences Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 29, 2025 Merdad Parsey, M.D., Ph.D., current member of the board of directors (the “Board”) of Sagimet Biosciences Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Board that he will not stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”), currently scheduled to be held on June 9, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1400118/000110465925042566/0001104659-25-042566-index.htm

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