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Form 8-K for HEMISPHERX BIOPHARMA INC


24-Jun-2009

Other Events


Item 8.01 Other Events.

Our Annual Meeting of Stockholders was held on June 24, 2009. As with last year's meeting, there was an extremely low turnout. Even with the quorum lowered to 40% for the meeting, only approximately 40.34 % of our outstanding shares voted. At the meeting, stockholders approved the following:

Election of Directors:

Nominees                               For                    Withheld

William A. Carter                   30,618,449                3,720,471
Richard C. Piani                    32,415,702                1,923,218
William M. Mitchell                 33,076,787                1,262,133
Iraj-Eqhbal Kiani, Ph.D.            32,532,815                1,806,105
Thomas K. Equels                    32,489,167                1,849,753

Ratification of the appointment of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP as our independent accountants:

For: 33,090,748 Against: 550,895 Abstain: 697,277.

Adoption of our 2009 Equity Incentive Plan:

For: 10,688,703 Against: 3,166,098 Abstain: 569,495.

We left the polls opened with regard to voting on the amendment of our certificate of incorporation to increase the number of our authorized shares of Common Stock from 200,000,000 to 350,000,000 and adjourned the meeting solely with regard to this proposal until July 28, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19103. We did this due to the extremely low vote turn out and the requirement that proposal be approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares, rather than just a majority of the shares present at the meeting. Less than the requisite number of shares for approval of the proposal were present at the meeting.

Total shares voted: 34,338,920 out of 85,130,832 eligible to vote.

For more information, please see the June 24, 2009 press released filed as exhibit 99.1 to this report.

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