---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-26-074576"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VXRT"
cik: "0000072444"
company_name: "Vaxart, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-07-02T10:20:13+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-07-02T10:25:05.157455+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vaxart settles proxy contest, will add independent director and form new board committees

## Summary
- Stockholder group withdrew three director nominations for 2026 Annual Meeting and books-and-records demand.
- Company will search within 90 days for a mutually agreed independent director to join the Board.
- Board to form Stockholder Engagement and Clinical & Regulatory Affairs Committees; refresh committee chairs.
- Company to adopt director stock ownership guidelines and a resignation policy for majority-vote failures.
- Vaxart will reimburse stockholder group up to $650,000 for proxy contest expenses.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-26-074576
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VXRT
- cik: 0000072444
- company_name: Vaxart, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-07-02T10:20:13+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72444/000121390026074576/0001213900-26-074576-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72444/000121390026074576/ea0296709-8k_vaxart.htm

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