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Aprea Therapeutics, Inc.

For the period ended Jun 5, 2025. Filed Apr 22, 2025.

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Jun 5, 2025 · Filed Apr 22, 2025

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CONTINUING DIRECTORS

CLASS I DIRECTORS — TERM EXPIRING AT THE 2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

Marc Duey
Age: 69Committee Memberships: Compensation
Director Since: 2022Other Public Directorships: None

Marc Dueyhas been a member of our Board since May 2022, when he was appointed in connection with our acquisition of Atrin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Duey has over four decades of experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries and brings a great deal of commercial business, and product launch experience. Since 2012, he has served as a Managing Partner at Duce Management, LLC, a family office fund that focuses on biotech and digital health convergence via early-stage commitments to emerging firms with intellectual property and platform technology of eventual interest to specialty pharmaceutical manufacturers seeking potential therapies for cancer. Mr. Duey was the Founder, President, and CEO of ProMetrics, Inc., from 1993 to 2019, a leading sales and patient-level data aggregator and service provider to the specialty pharmaceutical industry for over two decades. ProMetrics is now the Patient Solutions Division of ConcertAI, a leading real-world data, and AI-based predictive analytics partner to the largest, most ambitious, and dynamic oncology firms. Mr. Duey founded ProMetrics to provide marketing and sales teams with strategic and tactical decision support. Under his direction, the firm helped launch dozens of biopharma products, serviced over 150 clients, and managed thousands of projects. Seven client biotech firms have been acquired by seven large oncology companies, also clients, for a total transaction value of over $150 billion. Prior to founding ProMetrics, Mr. Duey was the founder and President of DuWest Research, an international management consulting firm, with offices on three continents, which specialized in serving the needs of diagnostic and biotechnology firms. Mr. Duey is a member of numerous trade and industry associations and sits on the Board of Directors of several technology companies. He is an adjunct professor at West Chester University in both the Business School and the Pharmaceutical Product Development program (PPD). He serves on the Board of Trustees of International House Philadelphia and is a member of the Leadership Council of the Wistar Institute. He is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), the American Association of Pharmaceutical Science (AAPS), and the Licensing Executive Society (LES). Mr. Duey holds a B.S. and an M.S. degree in science from the University of Ottawa, an M.B.A. from the Ivey Business School at Western University, London, Canada and a Doctor of Business Administration from Wilmington University.

We believe Mr. Duey is qualified to serve on our Board because of his experience as founder and CEO at ProMetrics and president of DuWest Research, his lengthy career at several pharmaceutical-focused technology company, and his extensive knowledge in the areas of finance and international business transactions.

Richard Peters, M.D., Ph.D.
Age: 62Committee Memberships: Compensation (Chair)
Director Since: 2020Other Public Directorships: Kineta, Inc., Pharming Group N.V.

*Richard Peters, M.D., Ph.D.*has served as a member of our Board since June 2020 and currently acts as Chairman. Dr. Peters has more than 25 years of experience developing new therapies for difficult-to-treat diseases. From September 2019 to December 2022, Dr. Peters served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director at Yumanity Therapeutics Inc. (“Yumanity”), a publicly traded company focused on finding treatments for neurodegenerative disease. Prior to joining Yumanity, Dr. Peters was President & Chief Executive Officer of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Merrimack”), a publicly traded pharmaceutical company specialized in developing drugs for the treatment of cancer, from February 2017 to June 2019. Prior to Merrimack, Dr. Peters served as Senior Vice President and Head, Global Rare Diseases at Genzyme (Sanofi), a pharmaceutical company, from April 2014 to January 2017. Dr. Peters currently serves on the board of directors of Pharming Group N.V., a publicly held rare disease company, Kineta, Inc., a publicly held immuno-oncology company, and TellBio, Inc., a privately held company focused on next-generation liquid biopsy.

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Dr. Peters is a Harvard-trained physician and scientist, has served on the faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship in biophysics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Peters commenced his medical studies at UC Louvain in Belgium and holds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Medical University of South Carolina.

We believe Dr. Peters is qualified to serve on our Board because of his senior management experience at Yumanity and Merrimack, his experience in the life sciences industry and his scientific background.

Bernd R. Seizinger, M.D., Ph.D.
Age: 68Committee Memberships: Nominating and Corporate Governance; Audit; R&D
Director Since: 2015Other Public Directorships: Aptose Biosciences Inc., Oncolytics Biotech Inc. and BioInvent International AB

*Bernd R. Seizinger, M.D., Ph.D.*has served as a member of our board of directors since 2015. Dr. Seizinger is a board member in a number of public and private biotech companies in the United States, Europe, and Canada, including Aptose Biosciences Inc., Oxford BioTherapeutics Ltd., BioInvent International AB, Oncolytics Biotech Inc., CryptoMedix Inc. and Turbine, Inc. Previously, Dr. Seizinger was President and Chief Executive Officer of GPC Biotech, VP Oncology Drug Discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, and Executive VP and Chief Scientific Officer at Genome Therapeutics. Prior to his corporate appointments, he held senior faculty positions at Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Princeton University.

We believe Dr. Seizinger is qualified to serve on our Board because of his perspective and experience as a leader and board member in the life sciences industry and his strong medical and scientific background.

CLASS II DIRECTORS — TERM EXPIRING AT THE 2027 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

Michael Grissinger
Age: 71Committee Memberships: Nominating and Corporate Governance (Chair), Audit
Director Since: 2022Other Public Directorships: None

Michael Grissingerhas been a member of our Board since May 2022, when he was appointed in connection with our acquisition of Atrin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Grissinger brings decades of experience in business development, strategy, and pharmaceutical licensing leadership roles at global pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Grissinger also serves on the board directors of Envisagenics, and chairs the boards of AnaCardio AB, and NephroDI. Mr. Grissinger previously served on the board of Atrin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He retired from Johnson & Johnson in January 2018 after a 22-year career. During his tenure at Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Grissinger held positions of Vice President and Head, Worldwide Pharmaceutical Licensing as well as Vice President and Head of Worldwide Pharmaceutical Corporate Development and M&A

We believe Mr. Grissinger is qualified to serve on our Board because of his senior management experience at Johnson & Johnson, his service on the boards of public and private life science companies, and his extensive experience in the areas of finance, business transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.

Gabriela Gruia, M.D.
Age: 68Committee Memberships: R&D
Director Since: 2023Other Public Directorships: TSCAN Therapeutics, Inc.

Gabriela Gruia, M.D., has been a member of our Board since May 2023. Dr. Gruia is an oncologist with over 25 years of experience in oncology drug development, spanning cell and gene therapy, bi-specifics, biologics, immunotherapy, and small molecules and currently serves as the Founder and Principal of Gabriela Gruia Consulting, LLC. From

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February 2020 to January 2021, Dr. Gruia served as Chief Development Officer at Ichnos Sciences, where she oversaw development activities for several key functions, including Clinical Development and Clinical Operations, Regulatory Sciences, Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Biostatistics. From August 2004 to February 2020, Dr. Gruia was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs for Novartis Oncology, where she led the world class oncology regulatory affairs organization and oversaw all regulatory activities in close partnership with research collaborators, preclinical development, development organization and senior management. While at Novartis, Dr. Gruia spearheaded the worldwide submission and approval of multiple new molecular entities, including Tasigna®, Jakavi®, Afinitor®, Signifor®, Zykadia®, Farydak®, Rydapt®, Odomzo®, Kisqali®, Kymriah®, Adakveo®, and Piqray®. Dr. Gruia serves as a member of the board of directors of TSCAN Therapeutics and NETRIS Pharma. Dr. Gruia earned a doctorate in medicine from Bucharest Medical School in Romania and a Masters in Breast Pathology and Mammography from the Rene Huguenin/Curie Institute Cancer Center in Paris, France. She completed training in oncology and hematology at Rene Descartes University in Paris, France.

We believe Dr. Gruia is qualified to serve on our Board because of her senior management experience and her service on the boards of public and private life science companies.

Rifat Pamukcu, M.D.
Age: 67Committee Memberships: Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance, R&D
Director Since: 2022Other Public Directorships: None

Rifat Pamukcu, M.D., has been a member of our Board since May 2022, when he was appointed in connection with our acquisition of Atrin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Pamukcu has extensive experience in pharmaceuticals and drug development, with a particular focus on oncology. He was a co-founder, director and CSO of Cell Pathways, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company focused on cancer and cancer prevention that was acquired by OSI Pharmaceuticals in 2003. At Cell Pathways he directed the basic science, preclinical drug development, clinical research, regulatory programs, and various aspects of chemical scale-up and manufacturing and raised over $140 million of investment capital. Since 2016, Dr. Pamukcu has served as the President & CEO of RxMP Therapeutics, Inc. (a company developing products to stop hemorrhage). Dr. Pamukcu has served on the Board of Directors of Syantra, Inc. since 2019 (a breast cancer diagnostics company), BobcatBio, Inc. since 2021 (a hematological malignancy immunotherapeutics company) and other boards of companies focused on cardiovascular disease, epilepsy and bone health. He previously served on the board of a company developing therapeutic hepatitis vaccines. He has been a Managing Partner of Corami LLC since 2016, an early-stage therapeutics company developing drug-device combinations that deliver sustained release therapeutics directly to the external surface of the heart. Dr. Pamukcu serves on the Board of Directors of Syantra, Inc. since 2019 (a breast cancer diagnostics company), Sirpant Immunotherapeutics, Inc. since 2021 (a hematological malignancy immunotherapeutics company), and Virion Therapeutics LLC since 2018 (a hepatitis therapeutic vaccine company). He has been a member of the Advisory Council to the National Prostate Cancer Coalition, the GI Oncology Task Force of the American Gastroenterological Association, Executive Steering Committee of the Gastroenterology Research Group and Scientific Advisory Board of the Hereditary Colon Cancer Association. Since 1985, Dr. Pamukcu has authored or co-authored over 110 journal articles, book chapters and abstracts in the fields of gastroenterology, cancer, cancer chemoprevention and signal transduction systems. He is an inventor on over 150 issued or pending patents in the areas of drug discovery and development of agents for cancer prevention and therapeutics, inflammatory bowel disease, osteoporosis and the prevention and treatment of hemorrhage. Dr. Pamukcu holds a B.A. in Biology from John Hopkins University and an M.D. from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center and his Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Chicago. He was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Digestive Diseases at the University of Cincinnati prior to his joining Cell Pathways, Inc.

We believe Dr. Pamukcu is qualified to serve on our Board because of his CEO and Presidential roles at RXMP Therapeutics, Inc. and Midway Pharmaceuticals, his extensive experience as an advisor to various entities in the life sciences industry and his extensive scientific background.

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