Mereo BioPharma to Hold Virtual R&D Day on Tuesday, November 24, 2020

On November 16, 2020 Mereo BioPharma Group plc (NASDAQ: MREO, AIM: MPH) ("Mereo" or "the Company"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and rare diseases, reported it will host a virtual R&D day on Tuesday, November 24, to review the Company’s key pipeline programs including etigilimab (Anti-TIGIT) for solid tumors and alvelestat for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and COVID-19 respiratory disease (Press release, Mereo BioPharma, NOV 16, 2020, View Source [SID1234571125]). The virtual R&D day will feature external experts and will include a more detailed review of the etigilimab development program, including the design and biomarker strategy for the recently initiated Phase 1b/2 basket combination study.

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R&D Day Information

Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 5:00 p.m. GMT

Presenters:

Timothy Yap, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, Associate Professor, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, and the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

John Strickler, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

Mark Dransfield, MD, Professor and Interim Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Denise Scots-Knight, Chief Executive Officer

John Lewicki, Chief Scientific Officer

Ann Kapoun, SVP of Translational Research and Development

Alastair MacKinnon, Chief Medical Officer

Jackie Parkin, Head of the Alvelestat Program

A live audio webcast of the R&D day can be accessed through the Investors section of the company’s website at www.mereobiopharma.com/investors/results-reports-and-presentations. The event is expected to last approximately two hours. An archived replay of the webcast will be made available on the Company’s website.