The 2026 annual meeting of Taysha Gene Therapies Inc. will now commence. Good morning. I am Sean Nolan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Taysha Gene Therapies Incorporated. I'm very happy to welcome you to our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, which is being held virtually. I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to join us. Before calling the meeting to order, I'd like to introduce the other members of the board and management who have joined us today. The other members of the board here today are Phil Donenberg, Alison Long, Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, and Sean Stalfort. Our other employees participating today are Kamran Alam, our Chief Financial Officer, and Hayleigh Collins, our Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. I would also like to introduce Patrick Conway of Deloitte & Touche LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm. Finally, I would like to introduce Madison Jones of Cooley LLP, our outside corporate counsel. The meeting will now be officially called to order. We will proceed with the formal business of the meeting as set forth in your notice of annual meeting and proxy statement. After all the proposals have been presented, we will answer questions related to the proposals which were submitted prior to 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on May 31st, 2026, through www.proxyvote.com. After which, we will announce the preliminary results of the voting. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the mailing of the notice of the meeting and the stockholders list? I have at this meeting a complete list of stockholders of record of our common stock on April 8th, 2026, the record date for this meeting. I also have an affidavit certifying that on April 22nd, 2026, a notice of annual meeting of stockholders was deposited in the U.S. mail to all stockholders of record at the close of business on April 8th, 2026. At this time, I'd like to appoint Louis Larson, a representative of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., to act as inspector of election at this meeting. Mr. Larson has taken and subscribed the customary oath of office to execute his duties with strict impartiality. We will file this oath with the records of the meeting. His function is to decide upon the qualification of voters, accept their votes, and when balloting on all matters is completed, to tally the final vote. Will the secretary please report at this time with respect to the existence of a quorum? I've been informed by the Inspector of Election that proxies have been received for 243,857,812 of the 287,341,999 shares of common stock outstanding on the record date, which represents approximately 84.86% of the total number of outstanding shares. This constitutes a quorum for the meeting today, and we may now carry out the official business of the meeting. I will now describe the voting procedures. Voting is by proxy and electronic ballot. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote. If you intend to vote and have not already done so, you may submit your vote now via the online voting system in order for it to be counted. The online voting system can be accessed at the website www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/taysha2026 as described on your proxy card. After Mr. Nolan describes each item to be voted on, we will close the polls. We will not accept ballots, proxies, revocations, or changes of votes after the closing of the polls. If you've already submitted your vote by proxy and do not wish to change your vote, you do not need to vote again, and your shares will be voted as previously instructed. We will now proceed with the formal business of this meeting. There are four proposals to be considered by the stockholders at this meeting. The time is now 9:04 A.M. Eastern Time on Monday, June 1st, and the polls are now open for voting on all matters to be presented. The polls will be closed to voting after we go through the matters to be voted on. The first item of business is the election of two Class III directors to serve until the 2029 annual meeting and until their successors are elected. The nominees for Class III director are Sean P. Nolan and Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, PhD. The second item of business today is ratification of the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026. The third item of business is an advisory vote to officer as disclosed in the company's proxy statement. The fourth item of business today is an advisory vote on the preferred frequency of future votes on the compensation of the company's named executive officers. That was the final proposal for today's meeting. We will now review if there were questions submitted about the proposals before we close the polls. As a reminder, we will only answer questions related to proposals which were submitted prior to 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on May 31st, 2026, through www.proxyvote.com. We did not receive any questions from stockholders. The time is now 9:06 A.M. Eastern Time, and the polls are now closed for voting. May we have the results of the voting? The report of the inspector of election covering the proposals presented at this meeting is as follows. The proposal to elect Sean P. Nolan and Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, PhD, as our directors is carried. The selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31st, 2026, is ratified. The compensation of the company's named executive officers as disclosed in the company's proxy statement is approved, and the preferred frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation of the company's named executive officers is one year. We expect to report our preliminary voting results, or if available to us on a timely basis, our final voting results on a current report on Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within four business days after the end of this meeting. If not earlier reported, we expect to report our final voting results in an amendment to our Form 8-K within four business days after the final results are known to us. This concludes today's meeting. Thank you again for your attendance at today's meeting and for your continued support of Taysha. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's meeting. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect.
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