Edgar Filing: CURIS INC

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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Stockholder Meeting to Be Held on May 15, 2018.


CURIS, INC.	Meeting Information
CURIS, INC.	Meeting Type: Annual Meeting
	For holders as of: March 19, 2018
	Date: May 15, 2018	Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT
CURIS, INC. 4 MAGUIRE ROAD LEXINGTON, MA 02421	Location: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 60 State Street Boston, MA 02109
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Voting Items


		The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following:
		1.		Election of our Class I directors

				Nominees:

				01) Ali Fattaey, Ph.D. 02) Lori A. Kunkel, M.D.

		The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposals:
		2.		To approve the Third Amended and Restated 2010 Stock Incentive Plan to reserve up to an additional 11,950,000 shares of Common Stock for issuance under the plan and to provide for certain other amendments.

		3.		To approve an amendment to our Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of our Common Stock from 225,000,000 to 337,500,000.

		4.		To approve an amendment to our Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of our Common Stock, by a ratio of not less than 1-for-3 and not more than 1-for-30, and a proportionate reduction in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock, such ratio and the implementation and timing of such reverse stock split to be determined in the discretion of our Board of Directors.

		5.		To approve an advisory vote on executive compensation.

		6.		To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018.
		NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

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