Hello, welcome to the 2026 virtual annual meeting of stockholders of Aura Biosciences, Inc. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. Stockholders may submit questions by following the instructions on the virtual shareholder meeting portal. Good morning, everyone. My name is Natalie Holles, Chief Executive Officer and President of Aura Biosciences, Inc. This meeting is now called to order. I have asked Conor Kilroy, Aura Biosciences Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, to record the minutes. It is a pleasure to welcome our shareholders to the annual meeting of stockholders of Aura Biosciences, Inc, being held today, Thursday, June 11th, 2026. Today's meeting is being held in accordance with the corporation's amended and restated bylaws and Delaware law and is being held virtually. We have stockholders attending via the web portal we provided. Our meeting today will consist of the formal business described in our notice and proxy statement, a copy of which was mailed on or about April 20th, 2026 to all of our stockholders of record at the close of business on April 15th, 2026. Before proceeding to the formal business, I would like to recognize the officers and directors of the corporation who are with us today. Our outside directors are David Johnson, Teresa Bitetti, Giovanni Mariggi, Sapna Srivastava. Our officers are Dr. Janet Jill Hopkins, Chief Medical Officer and President of Research and Development, Anthony Gibney, Chief Financial and Business Officer, Conor Kilroy, our Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, Dr. Mark Plavsic, our Chief Technology Officer, and Amy Elazzouzi, our Senior Vice President of Finance and Principal Accounting Officer and Treasurer. I would also like to welcome the representatives from Ernst & Young LLP, Aura's audit firm. Let's proceed to the formal business of the meeting, notice of which was sent to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 15th, 2026. Shareholders of record on that date are entitled to vote at this meeting. A record of stockholders as of that date has been on file at the principal place of business of the corporation for the last 10 days immediately prior to the date of this meeting and has been made available for inspection by any stockholder during that period at any time during normal business hours. Rules of conduct for the meeting are available in the meeting materials section. Please note that only stockholders who have logged in using their 16-digit control number will be able to vote and ask questions at the meeting. If you have any questions, I would encourage you to please submit them now so that they will be queued to be answered. If any stockholder wishes to address the chairman during the formal part of this meeting, please do so by submitting your question in writing through the virtual meeting platform via the link provided. Our board of directors has appointed Ms. Jenna Bentley to act as Inspector of Election for this annual meeting, and she will tabulate results of the voting. The Inspector of Election has signed the oath of her office, which will be filed with the minutes of this meeting. Ms. Bentley, do we have a quorum present? Ms. President, of the 64,199,778 shares of common stock entitled to vote at the meeting, at least 52,784,744 shares are represented by proxy, and therefore a quorum is present. I declare that a quorum is present. We may now proceed to transact the business for which this meeting has been called. Let me briefly describe the voting procedures. If you have previously turned in your proxy in a timely manner and you do not intend to change your vote, it is not necessary that you complete another proxy or ballot. Your vote will be counted. If you are eligible to vote and have not submitted your proxy, or if you want to change your vote, you may do so by clicking on the Vote Here button in the virtual meeting platform. In order to allow stockholders to vote through the virtual meeting platform at any time during this meeting, I am now declaring the polls open for voting. It is now 9:34 A.M. on June 11th, 2026. Our first item of business is the election of directors. At this meeting, we will be voting on two nominees for Class 2 directors to serve for a term of three years, all as set forth in the proxy statement. In accordance with the bylaws, your directors have nominated David Johnson and Teresa Marie Bitetti to be elected to serve as Class 2 directors. The corporation's bylaws require that a stockholder provide advance notice to the corporation of a stockholder's intent to nominate persons for directors. No such notice was received. Accordingly, I declare the nominations for directors closed. The board of directors unanimously recommends that all stockholders vote in favor of this proposal. Have we received any questions concerning the proposal? No, we have not. The second item of business is the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the corporation's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. The audit committee of the board of directors, which is comprised entirely of independent directors, appointed Ernst & Young LLP as the corporation's independent registered public accounting firm to audit the corporation's financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. The board of directors approved this selection of Ernst & Young LLP and has asked the stockholders to ratify the selection. Stockholder ratification is not required by the corporation's bylaws. However, the board of directors is submitting this to the stockholders for ratification as a matter of good corporate governance. If the stockholders do not approve the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the corporation's independent registered public accounting firm, the board of directors and the audit committee will reconsider the appointment. Have we received any questions concerning the proposal? No, we have not. Anyone who has not yet voted and desires to do so, please do so now through the virtual meeting platform. It is now 9:36 A.M. on June 11th, 2026, and the polls for each matter to be voted on at this meeting are now closed. No additional ballots, proxies, or votes, and no changes or revocations will be accepted. Inspector of Election, please report on the results of the voting. With regard to Proposal 1, a plurality of the shares present or represented and entitled to vote have been voted in favor of the election of the persons nominated. With regard to Proposal 2, a majority of the shares present or represented and entitled to vote have been voted in favor of the ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as the corporation's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2026. Thank you, Ms. Bentley. I declare that all of the proposals presented at the meeting have been ratified or approved by the stockholders. The final results of voting, including any ballots and proxies recorded during this meeting, will be set forth in the report of the Inspector of Election and will be included in the minutes of this meeting. The final results will also be included in our reports filed with the Secretary. There being no other matters for consideration at this meeting, I hereby adjourn the meeting. This concludes today's meeting. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.