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Item 5.08. Shareholder Director Nominations.
On March 30, 2025, the Board of Directors of Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”) resolved to hold its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”) on May 22, 2025. The 2025 Annual Meeting will be held virtually online by means of remote communication.
The record date for the 2025 Annual Meeting is April 3, 2025. Stockholders owning the Company’s common stock at the close of business on the record date, or their legal proxy holders, are entitled to vote at the 2025 Annual Meeting. The Company, however, reserves the right to change the record date or the meeting date.
Because the date of the 2025 Annual Meeting has been changed by more than 30 days from the date of the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2024 Annual Meeting”), the deadline for stockholders’ nominations or proposals for consideration at the 2025 Annual Meeting set forth in the Company’s proxy statement for the 2024 Annual Meeting no longer applies. As such, the Company is filing this Current Report on Form 8-K to inform stockholders of this change and to provide the due date for the submission of any qualified stockholder proposals or qualified stockholder director nominations.
Stockholders of the Company who wish to have a proposal considered for inclusion in the Company’s proxy materials for the 2025 Annual Meeting pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act (“Rule 14a-8”) must ensure that such proposal is delivered or mailed to and received by the Company’s Corporate Secretary at Applied DNA Sciences, Inc., 50 Health Sciences Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11790, no later than April 11, 2025, which the Company has determined to be a reasonable time before it expects to begin to print and distribute its proxy materials. Such proposals must comply with all applicable procedures and requirements of Rule 14a-8.
Any stockholder who intends to submit a director nomination or who intends to submit a proposal regarding any other matter of business at the 2025 Annual Meeting other than in accordance with Rule 14a-8 or otherwise must similarly make sure that such nomination or proposal and related notice comply with all applicable rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Company’s Bylaws, as amended, and are delivered to, or mailed to and received at, the Company’s principal executive offices on or before the close of business on April 11, 2025, which is the 10th day following the day on which the Company made a public announcement of the date of the 2025 Annual Meeting. Any director nominations and stockholder proposals received after this deadline will be considered untimely and will not be considered for inclusion in the proxy materials for the 2025 Annual Meeting nor will it be considered at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
SIGNATURES
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.
| Date: April 1, 2025 | APPLIED DNA SCIENCES, INC. | |
| By: | /s/ James A. Hayward | |
| Name: | James A. Hayward | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |