Management Change/Compensation (Form 8-K)

Item 5.02, Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

On September 26, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Qualigen Therapeutics, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Kevi Chen to serve as an independent member of the Board, effective immediately. As of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, Mr. Chen has not been appointed to any committees of the Board.

Kevin Chen, 47, Independent Director. Kevin Chen is currently Chief Economist and CIO of Horizon Financial. Board member of CurrenC Group (listed on Nasdaq), Australian Oilseeds Investments (listed on Nasdaq), Scage Future (EV truck company listed on Nasdaq), Capitan Investment Ltd. (listed on Toronto Stock Exchange). Former board member of Infint Acquisition Corporation (listed on the NYSE). Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University. A guest speaker at Harvard University, Fordham University, Pace University, and IESE Business School. Former member of the Adjunct Advisory Committee and former Interim Head of the Private Sector Concentration program of Ms. Global Affairs, New York University. Memeber of the Economic Club of New York. Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. Member of the Bretton Woods Committee. Member of the Economic Club of Miami. Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Global Commodity Applied Research Digest (GCARD) at JP Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Co-Chair of the New York Finance Forum. He was Senior Portfolio Manager, Credit Agricole/Amundi Asset Management from Aug. 2008 to Oc. 2011. Director of Asset Allocation at Morgan Stanley August 2004 to August 2008. Manager at China Development Bank, September 1998 to August 2000. PhD in Finance from the Financial Asset Management Engineering Center at University of Lausanne, Switzerland at October 2004. Master's degree in Finance, Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University in the Netherlands at August 2001. B.A. degree in Economics from the Renmin University of China in Beijing, China, July 1998.