Abeona Therapeutics Inc 8-K/A, filed May 28, 2021
Abeona Therapeutics Inc. (ABEO)
About this 8-K/A
Abeona Therapeutics Inc filed this 8-K/A on May 28, 2021, reporting on events of April 14, 2021.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On April 19, 2021, Abeona Therapeutics Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing under Item 5.02 that Leila Alland, M.D. and Donald Wuchterl were appointed to serve on the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company effective on April 14, 2021. At the time of this filing, Dr. Alland and Mr. Wuchterl had not been appointed to serve on any committees of the Board.
Pursuant to Instruction (2) to Item 5.02 of Form 8-K, the Company is filing this amendment to its prior Current Report on Form 8-K for the sole purpose of disclosing that (i) Dr. Alland will serve as a member of the Board’s Compensation Committee and its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and (ii) Mr. Wuchterl will serve as a member of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The committee appointments became effective as of May 24, 2021.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| May 28, 2021 | Abeona Therapeutics Inc. | |
| (Registrant) | ||
| By: | /s/ Brendan M. O’Malley | |
| Name: | Brendan M. O’Malley | |
| Title: | Corporate Secretary | |