Company: BIAF
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001641172-25-008170
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Company: bioAffinity Technologies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form: S-1
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Genomics, a private consulting and contract commercialization firm she founded in 2015 to provide molecular and genomic-based strategies to clients. Dr. Platt has served since March 2021 as a member of the board of directors of DxTerity Diagnostics Inc., a company pioneering the use of RNA-based immune system profiling to better understand the root causes of immune mediated conditions. From February 2017 until January 2021, Dr. Platt served as Chief Operations Officer of Inivata Limited, a company applying pioneering liquid biopsy technology acquired by NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc. Dr. Platt earned her PhD in molecular and cellular biology from Oregon State University and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Platt is an industry-recognized peer educator and speaker, holds multiple U.S. and international patents and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. We believe Dr. Platt should serve as a director of the Company because of her scientific background, her start-up company experience, her prior leadership and laboratory experience, her involvement in transforming research organizations into successful commercial entities and her experience expanding product market share in the diagnostics market.

Family Relationships

Maria Zannes is the sister of Timothy P. Zannes, J.D., the Company’s Executive Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel. Other than the sibling relationship between Maria Zannes and Timothy Zannes, there are no other family relationships among any of the Company’s director nominees or executive officers.

Director Independence

Under the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq, a majority of our directors must meet the independence requirements specified in those rules. The Nasdaq listing standards also subject members of the Company’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee to additional independence requirements. The Board has affirmatively determined that each of the Company’s non-employee directors, which include Robert Anderson, Stuart Diamond, Peter Knight, Gary Rubin, and Jamie Platt are independent directors under the Nasdaq rules and listing standards, including with respect to each director’s committee service.

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<div align='center'>EXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION</div>

We are an “emerging growth company” and a “smaller reporting company” under applicable federal securities laws and therefore permitted to take advantage of certain reduced public company reporting requirements. As such, we provide in this prospectus the scaled disclosure permitted under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act, including the compensation disclosures required of a “smaller reporting company,” as that term is defined in Rule 12b-