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The Nomination Committee's proposal for the election of Board members and Chairperson of the Board in BioArctic AB
BioArctic AB (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) hereby announces that the Nomination Committee for BioArctic AB (publ) presents the following proposals regarding the resolution on the number of board members and the election of board members and Chairperson of the Board at the Annual General Meeting on May 28, 2026.
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[{"type":"text","content":"STOCKHOLM, March 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- BioArctic AB (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) hereby announces that the Nomination Committee for BioArctic AB (publ) presents the following proposals regarding the resolution on the number of board members and the election of board members and Chairperson of the Board at the Annual General Meeting on May 28, 2026.","length":358,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The Nomination Committee proposes that the board shall consist of eight members, without deputies.","length":98,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The Nomination Committee proposes that Eugen Steiner, Cecilia Edström, Anna-Lena Engwall, Lars Lannfelt, Lotta Ljungqvist and Mikael Smedeby be re-elected as board members and that Philip Scheltens and Linda Nilsson be elected as new board members, each for a term of office until the end of the next annual general meeting. Furthermore, the Nomination Committee proposes that Eugen Steiner be re-elected as chairperson.","length":420,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Board member Pär Gellerfors has declined re-election. The Nomination Committee proposes that his daughter, Linda Nilsson, takes a seat on the board as representative of the Gellerfors family's holding company, Ackelsta AB.","length":226,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Philip Scheltens is one of the leading international experts in the research, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Prof. dr. Philip Scheltens studied at the VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, gaining his MD in 1984, and PhD in 1993. He was appointed as Professor of Cognitive Neurology in 2000 and founded the Alzheimer Center at Amsterdam University Medical Centers in that same year, which he directed until 2022. Currently he is partner at EQT group and heads the Dementia Fund at EQT Life Sciences, that he started in 2020. He has been the (inter)national Principal Investigator (PI) for over 35 studies, including phase 1-3 multicenter clinical trials and supervised >100 PhD theses since 2000. He founded and led the Dutch National Plan against dementia and served as chair of the board until 2021 and was on the advisory panel of the Dutch National Strategy for Dementia until 2025. He acted as chair of the World Dementia council from 2021 – 2025 and is medical advisor to the Race Against Dementia charity and membe...