STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Stockholders Equity Note [Abstract]
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY	6. STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY 2018 Inducement Award Plan In December 2018, our board of directors approved the adoption of the 2018 Inducement Award Plan, or the Inducement Plan, pursuant to which we reserved 3,000,000 shares of Geron common stock (subject to customary adjustments in the event of a change in capital structure) to be used exclusively for grants of inducement awards to individuals who were not previously Geron employees or non-employee directors, other than following a bona fide period of non-employment. In January 2019, February 2020, February 2021, May 2021 and February 2022, our Compensation Committee approved amendments to increase the reserve of shares of our common stock under the Inducement Plan by 5,000,000, 1,300,000, 800,000, 5,000,000 and 1,000,000 shares, respectively. As a result, an aggregate total of 16,100,000 shares of common stock have been reserved under the Inducement Plan. The Inducement Plan provides for the grant of nonstatutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units and other stock awards, and all awards under the Inducement Plan are intended to meet the standards under Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The terms and conditions of the Inducement Plan and the inducement awards to be granted thereunder are substantially similar to our stockholder-approved 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.

STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

6. STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

2018 Inducement Award Plan

In December 2018, our board of directors approved the adoption of the 2018 Inducement Award Plan, or the Inducement Plan, pursuant to which we reserved 3,000,000 shares of Geron common stock (subject to customary adjustments in the event of a change in capital structure) to be used exclusively for grants of inducement awards to individuals who were not previously Geron employees or non-employee directors, other than following a bona fide period of non-employment. In January 2019, February 2020, February 2021, May 2021 and February 2022, our Compensation Committee approved amendments to increase the reserve of shares of our common stock under the Inducement Plan by 5,000,000, 1,300,000, 800,000, 5,000,000 and 1,000,000 shares, respectively. As a result, an aggregate total of 16,100,000 shares of common stock have been reserved under the Inducement Plan.

The Inducement Plan provides for the grant of nonstatutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units and other stock awards, and all awards under the Inducement Plan are intended to meet the standards under Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The terms and conditions of the Inducement Plan and the inducement awards to be granted thereunder are substantially similar to our stockholder-approved 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.