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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-025311"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ELUT"
cik: "0001708527"
company_name: "ELUTIA INC."
filed_at: "2026-03-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T17:56:42.726893+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Elutia adopts 2026 Inducement Award Plan, authorizing up to 2M shares for new hire grants

## Summary
- Board adopted Inducement Plan on March 3, 2026; allows equity grants to new employees as hiring inducement without shareholder approval.
- Maximum shares authorized: 2,000,000 shares of Class A common stock.
- Awards include stock options (non-ISO), SARs, restricted stock, RSUs, cash-based awards, and dividend equivalents.
- Plan administered by Compensation Committee; awards subject to Company's clawback policies.
- Grants require press release and Nasdaq notice under Nasdaq Rule 5635(c).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-025311
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ELUT
- cik: 0001708527
- company_name: ELUTIA INC.
- filed_at: 2026-03-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708527/000110465926025311/0001104659-26-025311-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708527/000110465926025311/elut-20260303x8k.htm

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