CervoMed Inc.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15I and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act) that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, we recognize that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and we are required to apply our judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible internal controls. Our management evaluated, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered in this report. Based on that evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are ineffective due to the material weakness noted below in the subsequent paragraph.

Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

In connection with the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, a material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was identified in relation to the absence of effective controls regarding the accurate identification, evaluation and proper recording of various expense accounts.

A material weakness is a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our consolidated financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The identified material weaknesses, if not remediated, could result in a material misstatement to the Company’s consolidated financial statements that may not be prevented or detected. A material weakness will not be considered remediated until a remediation plan has been fully implemented, the applicable controls operate for a sufficient period of time, and it has been concluded, through testing, that the newly implemented and enhanced controls are operating effectively.

On August 16, 2023, we completed the Merger. For financial reporting purposes, EIP was determined to be the accounting acquirer and, accordingly, for all periods prior to the Merger, EIP’s historical financial statements and results of operations replace and are deemed to be the Company’s financial statement and results of operations for such periods. While Diffusion was previously subject to the provisions of SOX, EIP, as a private, non-reporting operating company prior to the Merger, was not. Accordingly, upon consummation of the Merger, we began the process of integrating the pre-Merger business of EIP into Diffusion’s pre-established public company, internal control framework, including internal controls and information systems and we continue to implement measures designed to improve our internal control over financial reporting to remediate the material weaknesses. As of the date of this Annual Report, we continue to be actively engaged in these efforts through, among other things, adding additional review procedures by qualified personnel over complex accounting matters and, during the year ended December 31, 2024, we completed our remediation plan with respect to a material weakness related to the recording of significant complex transactions previously identified in connection with the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. We currently expect to complete the remediation plan with respect to the material weakness related to the absence of effective controls regarding the accurate identification, evaluation and proper recording of various expense accounts during the year ending December 31, 2025. However, the Company cannot predict the success of such efforts or the outcome of its assessment of the remediation efforts and the Company’s efforts may not remediate this material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting, or additional material weaknesses may be identified in the future.

Notwithstanding the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting described above, our management has concluded that our consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report are fairly stated in all material respects in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

Attestation Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

This report does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. As a "smaller reporting company" (as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act), pursuant to Section 989G of the Dodd-Frank Act, we are exempt from the requirement subjecting management’s report to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm.

Change in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Except as set forth above, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our fourth quarter ended December 31, 2024, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.