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Angelos M. Stergiou, M.D., Sc.D. h.c. has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer, and a director, since December 2017. Dr. Stergiou founded, in 2012, our predecessor entity, or Private SELLAS, that completed a business combination with Galena Biopharma on December 29, 2017, and served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since that time, both as Chairman from 2012 to July 2016, and as Vice Chairman from July 2016 to December 2017. In connection therewith, Dr. Stergiou led the negotiation of an exclusive license agreement with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) to develop and commercialize MSK's WT1 peptide vaccine technology, which was satisfied in part by the transfer to MSK of certain of Dr. Stergiou's shares in Private SELLAS. Dr. Stergiou also co-founded Genesis Life Sciences, Ltd. (now Genesis Research), a boutique health economics and pricing-reimbursement and health access company where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 2009 to 2011. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Stergiou served as Vice President and Head of Drug Development at Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. and also served in the same capacity as well as Chief Medical Officer at its subsidiary Biovest International, Inc. during the same time. While at Biovest International, Inc., Dr. Stergiou led the Phase 3 development of a therapeutic cancer vaccine, BiovaxID, which was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology plenary session in 2009. Dr. Stergiou started his biotechnology career in 2002 at PAION AG where he served as its U.S. program lead of desmoteplase (DEDAS) and served on the joint steering and oversight committee of PAION AG with Forest Laboratories, Inc. in 2003-2004. Dr. Stergiou holds an M.D. from the U.S. American Institute of Medicine and a Sc.D. h.c. from Kentucky Wesleyan College and received his undergraduate degree in pre-medicine, biology and chemistry from Kentucky Wesleyan College. Dr. Stergiou was a member of the Board of Trustees at Kentucky Wesleyan College from March 2017 to January 2021, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, an active member of the World Medical Association, and a member of the American Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research and the Association of Clinical Research Professionals. Dr. Stergiou has served on the Board of Directors of Cleara Biotech B.V., a private biotech company located in the Netherlands, since January 2022.

Dragan Cicic, M.D. has served as the Company's Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer since January 2024. Dr. Cicic previously served as the Company's Senior Vice President, Clinical Research & Development from February 2020 to December 2023. Dr. Cicic has over 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Before joining SELLAS, he was Senior Vice President, Clinical Lead, at Klus Pharma, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Kelun, a major China-based multinational pharmaceutical company. At Klus Pharma, Dr. Cicic led the global clinical development of targeted solid cancer biologicals and was involved in the development of novel checkpoint inhibitors as well as other innovative biological and small molecule drug candidates. Prior to Klus Pharma, Dr. Cicic held senior management positions at Actinium Pharmaceuticals, where he launched key clinical trials, both early and late stage, in hematologic malignancies, primarily in acute myeloid leukemia. Dr. Cicic also worked with QED Technologies, a consulting company focused on life sciences. He received his medical degree from the University of Belgrade and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cicic also did a Fellowship at Harvard University. Dr. Cicic has published extensively in the fields of hematologic malignancies and solid cancers.

John T. Burns has served as the Company's Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since February 2023. Mr. Burns previously served as the Company's Vice President, Finance, and Corporate Controller from December 2017 to December 2020, as Vice President, Finance, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer from January 2021 to December 2021 and as Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Accounting Officer from January 2022 to January 2023. Mr. Burns has over 15 years of experience in finance and accounting. Mr. Burns joined the Company in May 2013 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility during his tenure. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Burns was a Securities and Exchange Reporting Manager at Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXLW), and began his career in public accounting at Moss Adams LLP, predecessor of Baker Tilly US, LLP. Burns received a B.S.M. in Finance and Master of Accounting degree from Tulane University. He is an active Certified Public Accountant. Accountant.

John Varian has been a director of the Company since December 2017 and Chair of the Board since June 2024. He was the Chair of the Audit Committee from December 2017 to June 2023 and remains a member. He was Chair of the Compensation Committee from June 2023 to June 2024 and remains a member. Mr. Varian served as Chief Executive Officer of XOMA Corporation (NASDAQ: XOMA) from August 2011 through December 2016 and served as a member of the board of directors of XOMA from December 2008 through May 2017. Mr. Varian served as a member of the board of directors of Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOR) from January 2022 to August 2024, when its assets were sold to Merz Therapeutics, the board of directors of Versartis, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAR) from March 2014 through October 2018, when it acquired Aravive, and the board of directors of Egalet Corporation (NASDAQ: EGLT) from June 2018 through February 2019, when it acquired the assets of Iroko. Mr. Varian has also been a director on the board of AmMax Bio, Inc. (a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company) since February 2021. Mr. Varian previously served as Chief Operating Officer of ARYx Therapeutics, Inc. from December 2003 through August 2011. Beginning in May 2000, Mr. Varian was Chief Financial Officer of Genset S.A. in France, where he was a key member of the team negotiating Genset's sale to Serono S.A. in 2002. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Varian served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration of Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., joining the company as part of its acquisition of Neurex Corporation. Prior to the acquisition, he served as Neurex Corporation's Chief Financial Officer from 1997 until 1998. From 1991 until 1997, Mr. Varian served as the VP Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Anergen Inc. Mr. Varian was an Audit Principal/Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP from 1987 until 1991, where he focused on life sciences. Mr. Varian was also a founding committee member of Bay Bio and a former chairman of the Association of Bioscience Financial Officers International Conference. Mr. Varian holds a BBA from Western Michigan University. He was a Certified Public Accountant.

Jane Wasman has been a director of the Company since December 2017 and served as Chair of the Board from December 2017 through June 2024. Ms. Wasman has served as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board since December 2017, became a member of the Audit Committee in 2019, and previously served as a member of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Wasman was President, International & General Counsel of Acorda Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, from October 2012 until December 2019, managing its international, legal, quality, IP and compliance functions. From January 2012 until October 2012, she was Acorda's Chief, Strategic Development, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and from May 2005 until January 2012, she was Acorda's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Before joining Acorda, Ms. Wasman was with Schering-Plough Corporation, a global pharmaceutical company, for over eight years, holding various U.S. and international leadership positions, including Staff Vice President and Associate General Counsel. Ms. Wasman earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Princeton University. Ms. Wasman is also a member of the board of directors of Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIGL), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. She previously served as chair of the board of Athersys, Inc. (OTC: ATHX), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and a member of the boards of Cytovia Therapeutics, a private company, and NewYorkBIO (including its Executive Committee).

Robert L. Van Nostrand has been a director of the Company since December 2017. He was Chair of the Compensation Committee from December 2017 to June 2023. In June 2023, Mr. Van Nostrand became Chair of the Audit Committee and he has been a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since 2018. He was a member of the board of directors and lead outside director of Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITCI), a biopharmaceutical company, until it was acquired in April 2025, and chairman of the board of directors of Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: YTEN), a bio-agricultural bioscience company which filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in December 2024. He was a member of the board of directors of Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHN), a biotechnology company, until it was acquired in January 2020. Mr. Van Nostrand is also a member of the board of directors of Likeminds, Inc., a private biotech company, and the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, a private company providing clinical trial services. Mr. Van Nostrand was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Aureon Laboratories, Inc., a pathology life science company, from January 2010 to July 2010. Prior to joining Aureon Laboratories, Mr. Van Nostrand served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AGI Dermatics, a private biotechnology company, from July 2007 to September 2008, when the company was acquired. Between 1986 and 2007, Mr. Van Nostrand held various executive and other management positions, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OSI), then a public biotechnology company focused on oncology. Prior to joining OSI, Mr. Van Nostrand served in a managerial position with the accounting firm, Touche Ross & Co., currently Deloitte. He is a treasurer and member of the board of NewYorkBIO. Mr. Van Nostrand holds a B.S. in Accounting from Long Island University, New York and completed advanced management studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Certified Public Accountant.

David A. Scheinberg, M.D., Ph.D. has been a director of the Company and Chair of the Science Committee since December 2017. Dr. Scheinberg is currently the Vincent Astor Chair and Chairman of the Center for Experimental Therapeutics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and is the Deputy Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Therapeutic Discovery, where he spearheaded the discovery and early clinical development of galinpepimut-S. Additionally, Dr. Scheinberg is a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and until 2022, was co-chair of the Pharmacology graduate program at the Weill-Cornell University Medical College. He is a Professor in the Gerstner-Sloan Kettering Graduate School at MSK. Dr. Scheinberg is also an attending physician in the Department of Medicine, on the Leukemia Service, which he led as Chief from 1992 to 2001. Dr. Scheinberg has been an advisor to charitable foundations, cancer centers and elite universities. He sat on the board of directors of Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, from 1996 to 2019, which then merged with Lantheus (NASDAQ: LNTH), and currently sits on the board of directors of Sapience Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held, clinical stage biotechnology company. Dr. Scheinberg also served on Private SELLAS' Scientific Advisory Board from 2015 to 2017. From 2010 through 2016, he served on the board of directors of Contrafect Corporation, a publicly traded clinical-stage biotechnology company. Dr. Scheinberg holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Scheinberg earned his undergraduate degree in Biology from Cornell University.

Katherine Bach Kalin has been a director of the Company since August 2022. She has been Chair of the Compensation Committee since June 2024 and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since October 2022. Ms. Kalin currently serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Genfit S.A., a French, public biopharmaceutical company, where she serves on the Strategy and Alliances Committee and the ESG Committee, and two private companies, Brown Advisory LLC, an independent investment and strategic advisory firm (Audit & Finance Committees), and FemHealth Ventures, a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in women's health. She was a member of the board of directors of Athersys, Inc. (OTC: ATHX), a biotech focused on regenerative medicine from 2020 to 2022 (Audit and Compensation Committees) and Clinical Genomics, a private, biotech company dedicated to improving patient outcomes through early detection of colorectal cancer (Audit and Financial Risk Committee) from 2018 to 2021. Ms. Kalin has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare and professional services. At Celgene, she led Corporate Strategy from 2012 to 2017, and at Johnson & Johnson, she held executive leadership roles in marketing, sales and new business development from 2002 to 2011. Prior to that, Ms. Kalin was a partner in the global healthcare practice at McKinsey & Co., from 1990 to 2002. Her healthcare industry experience spans pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, and digital health. Earlier in her career, she served as a Manager in Corporate Finance at Nomura International in the U.K. and Japan from 1984 to 1988. She has a B.A. from Durham University, U.K. and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.