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Mereo BioPharma Group plc

28 September 2020

Mereo BioPharma Group plc

("Mereo" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Result of General Meeting

London and Redwood City, Calif., September 28, 2020 - Mereo BioPharma Group plc (NASDAQ: MREO, AIM: MPH), "Mereo" or "the Company", a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and rare diseases, announces that all five resolutions (the "Resolutions") proposed at the Company's General Meeting ("General Meeting"), held earlier today, were duly passed. The Board is pleased that all the resolutions received strong support from shareholders. Full details of the resolutions can be viewed in the Notice of General Meeting on the Company's website at www.mereobiopharma.com

The results of the proxy voting in advance of the General Meeting are shown below. On the record date there were 338,713,962 ordinary shares of GBP0.003 each in issue, each carrying one vote per share.

 
 Resolution   Votes For     Votes at      Votes Against   Votes Withheld   Total Votes   Result 
                             Chairman's                                     Cast 
                             Discretion 
 1            129,413,324   0             9,258,138       17,565           138,689,027   Passed 
 2            138,317,100   0             178,850         193,077          138,689,027   Passed 
 3            138,558,837   0             92,945          37,245           138,689,027   Passed 
 4            125,187,297   0             13,290,680      211,050          138,689,027   Passed 
 5            124,695,799   0             13,216,200      777,028          138,689,027   Passed

About Mereo BioPharma

Mereo BioPharma is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics that aim to improve outcomes for oncology and rare diseases. Mereo's lead oncology product candidate, etigilimab (Anti-TIGIT), has completed a Phase 1a dose escalation clinical trial in patients with advanced solid tumors and has been evaluated in a Phase 1b study in combination with nivolumab in select tumor types. Mereo's rare disease product portfolio consists of setrusumab, which has completed a Phase 2b dose-ranging study in adults with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), as well as alvelestat, which is being investigated in a Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical trial in patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and in a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial in COVID-19 respiratory disease.

Mereo BioPharma Contacts:

 
Mereo                                            +44 (0)333 023 7300 
Denise Scots-Knight, Chief Executive Officer 
 
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser and Broker 
 to Mereo )                                      +44 (0)20 7496 3081 
Phil Davies 
Will Goode 
 
Burns McClellan (US Investor Relations Adviser 
 to Mereo)                                       +01 212 213 0006 
Lisa Burns 
Steve Klass 
 
FTI Consulting (UK Public Relations Adviser 
 to Mereo )                                       +44 (0)20 3727 1000 
Simon Conway 
Ciara Martin 
 
Investors                                        investors@mereobiopharma.com

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