# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001806952
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-261753
**Filing Date:** 2025-11
**Character Count:** 5845
**Document Hash:** 84cd4b755bfeea16b111d1f84115ff37
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-261753.hdr.sgml**: 20251103

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-261753

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251031

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251103

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251103

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Lyell Immunopharma, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001806952
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 03 Life Sciences
- **EIN:** 833006753
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-40502
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251442227

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 201 HASKINS WAY
- **CITY:** SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94080
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 650 695-0677

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 201 HASKINS WAY
- **CITY:** SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94080

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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

### FORM 8-K

#### CURRENT REPORT

#### Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

#### of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

#### Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 31, 2025

## Lyell Immunopharma, Inc.

#### (Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

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| **Delaware** | **001-40502** | **83-1300510** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction**<br> **of Incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br> **File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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| **201 Haskins Way** |  |
| **South San Francisco, California** | **94080** |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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#### Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: 650 695-0677

#### Not Applicable

#### (Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading<br>Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange**<br> **on which registered** |
| Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share | LYEL | Nasdaq Global Select Market |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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| **Item 5.02** | **Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**  |

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On October 31, 2025, the Board of Directors of Lyell Immunopharma, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Lynn Seely, M.D., the Company's President, Chief Executive Officer and principal executive officer and a director of the Company, as the Company's interim principal financial officer, and appointed Veronica Sanchez Bulis, the Company's Vice President, Corporate Controller, as the Company's principal accounting officer.

Information regarding Dr. Seely's background and business experience is set forth under the caption "Continuing Directors" in the Company's definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2025, and is incorporated herein by reference.

Veronica Sanchez Bulis, 48, has served as the Company's Vice President, Corporate Controller since August 2021. Ms. Bulis has led financial operations, accounting, SEC reporting, audit and SOX compliance, as well as international accounting functions, for public companies in the biotechnology and consumer industries, including serving as Senior Director of Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting at Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. from December 2018 to August 2021 and Director of Corporate Accounting and Financial Reporting and other roles of increasing responsibility at Core-Mark International from September 2008 to December 2018. Earlier in her career, she held public accounting roles with Ernst & Young and Deloitte. Ms. Bulis earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, degree expected June 2026.

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#### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

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|  |  | **Lyell Immunopharma, Inc.** |
| Date: November 3, 2025 | By: | /s/ Mark Meltz |
|  |  | Mark Meltz |
|  |  | General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |

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