Company: HCWB
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058961
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Company: HCW Biologics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 audio webcast on the internet at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HCWB2025. By logging on this website with the control number included on your proxy card or voting instruction form at the designated time, stockholders and proxyholders of record as of the record date identified below may be deemed present in person and eligible vote at the Annual Meeting. |
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| Items of Business: | 1.	Elect the Class I directors listed in the accompanying proxy statement to serve a three-year term expiring at the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders and until such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal.                                                                                                                                              |
|                    | 2.	Ratify the appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of HCW Biologics Inc. for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|                    | 3.	Transact any other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the Annual Meeting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Record Date:       | Only stockholders of record at the close of business on April 22, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments thereof.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Proxy Voting:      | Each share of common stock that you own represents one vote.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|                    | For questions regarding your stock ownership, you may contact us through our website at https://investors.hcwbiologics.com/ir-resources/contact-us or email us at info@hcwbiologics.com, or, if you are a registered holder, contact our transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, through its website at www.equiniti.com or by phone at (800) 937-5449.                                                                                              |

By Order of the Board of Directors,

Hing C. Wong, Ph.D. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Miramar, FL
April 28, 2025

<div align='center'>Whether or not you expect to participate in the virtual Annual Meeting, please vote as promptly as possible in order to ensure your representation at the Annual Meeting. You may vote online or, if you requested printed copies of the proxy materials, by telephone or by using the proxy card or voting instruction form provided with the printed proxy materials.

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