---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-015424"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PDSB"
cik: "0001472091"
company_name: "PDS Biotechnology Corp"
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T06:56:22.365985+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Sir Richard Sykes to retire at PDS Biotechnology's 2025 Annual Meeting

## Summary
- Sir Richard Sykes notified the Board on April 22, 2025, of his retirement.
- He will not stand for re-election when his term expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- No replacement has been announced; Board composition will change accordingly.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-015424
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PDSB
- cik: 0001472091
- company_name: PDS Biotechnology Corp
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+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/1472091/000114036125015424/0001140361-25-015424-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1472091/000114036125015424/ef20047901_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-015424
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-015424.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-015424.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sir Richard Sykes departed as Director at PDS Biotechnology Corp.
  - Action: will retire and not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 22, 2025, Sir Richard Sykes, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of PDS Biotechnology Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company that he will retire and not stand for re-election as a director of the Company upon the expiration of his current term which expires at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1472091/000114036125015424/0001140361-25-015424-index.htm

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