Payment Options. Prior to each calendar year, or within 30 days after becoming a Participant, the Participant shall select a payment election with respect to the payment of one or both of the Participant's Individual Accounts from the following payment elections:

Payment Options. The exercise price shall be paid by one or any combination of the following forms of payment that are applicable to this option, as indicated on the cover page hereof:

Options. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator will determine all terms and conditions of each Option, including but not limited to: # whether the Option is an “incentive stock option” which meets the requirements of Code Section 422, or a “nonqualified stock option” which does not meet the requirements of Code Section 422; # the grant date, which may not be any day prior to the date that the Administrator approves the grant; # the number of Shares subject to the Option; # the exercise price, which may not be less than the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to the Option as determined on the date of grant; # the terms and conditions of vesting and exercise; and # the term, except that an Option must terminate no later than ten (10) years after the date of grant. In all other respects, the terms of any incentive stock option should comply with the provisions of Code Section 422 except to the extent the Administrator determines otherwise. Except to the extent Administrator determines otherwise, a Participant may exercise an Option in whole or part after the right to exercise the Option has accrued, provided that any partial exercise must be for one hundred (100) Shares or multiples thereof. If an Option that is intended to be an incentive stock option fails to meet the requirements thereof, the Option shall automatically be treated as a nonqualified stock option to the extent of such failure.

Options. (i) Grant. The Committee is authorized to grant Options to Participants with such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as the Committee shall determine. The Award Agreement shall specify:

Options. Options may be granted alone or in addition to other Awards granted under this Plan. Each Option granted under this Plan shall be either an Incentive Stock Option (ISO) or a Nonqualified Stock Option (NQSO).

Options. Executive shall be granted awards of options to purchase shares of the Company’s Common Stock, subject to vesting and exercise requirements and other terms and conditions of the Company’s Equity Compensation Plan and associated award documents, and contingent upon Executive signing the applicable Incentive Stock Option Agreement in form and substance acceptable to the Company, as follows:

Options. As an executive of the Company, you may be provided stock option grants in the Company governed by the terms of the MAIA Biotechnology Stock Option Plan(s) and applicable agreements.

Options. Options may be granted under the Plan to any Participants. The Committee shall have absolute discretion to determine, within the limits of the express provisions of the Plan, those Participants to whom and the time or times at which Options shall be granted. The Committee shall also determine, within the limits of the express provisions of the Plan, the number of shares to be subject to each Option, the duration of each Option, the exercise price under each Option, the time or times within which (during the term of the Option) all or portions of each Option may become vested and exercisable, and whether an Option shall be an Incentive Stock Option, a Nonqualified Stock Option or a combination thereof. In making such determination, the Committee may take into account the nature of the services rendered by the Participant, his or her present and potential contributions to the Company’s success and such other factors as the Committee in its discretion shall deem relevant.

Payment of the Option Price for the shares of Stock purchased pursuant to the exercise of an Option shall be made in cash or in cash equivalents acceptable to the Company.

By its approval of this Agreement, the Company’s Board of Directors has approved the issuance to Executive of an option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, under and pursuant to the provisions of the ​ 2007 Stock Option Plan, as adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors and as approved by the Company’s Shareholders (the “Plan”) and on the terms set forth in the Stock Option Agreement annexed to this Agreement as [Exhibit A] (the “Option Agreement”), which provides inter alia that such option shall vest as set forth below, and be exercisable at the exercise price of $0.24 per share (which is the closing market price of the Company’s Common Stock on the date hereof) at any time during the five (5) year period following the date hereof (subject to earlier termination as provided under the Plan):