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): June 19, 2017 

Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (857) 259-5340

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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 Item 5.07.  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. 

Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on June 19, 2017. As of April 19, 2017, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 26,851,607 outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock. The Company’s shareholders voted on the following matters, which are described in detail in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on April 25, 2017: (i) to elect Steven Hyman, M.D. and James A. Geraghty as Class II directors of the Company, each to serve for a three-year term expiring at the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders in 2020 and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified, subject to their earlier resignation or removal (“Proposal 1”) and (ii) to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young, LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017 (“Proposal 2”).

The Company’s shareholders approved the Class II director nominees recommended for election in Proposal 1 at the Annual Meeting. The Company’s shareholders voted for Class II directors as follows:

The Company’s shareholders approved Proposal 2. The votes cast at the Annual Meeting were as follows:

No other matters were submitted to or voted on by the Company’s shareholders at the Annual Meeting.

SIGNATURE

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 hereunto duly authorized.