LONDON, 31 May, 2017:

Arix Bioscience plc (LSE: ARIX) (“Arix Bioscience” or “the Company”), a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, today announces that Joe Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of Arix Bioscience, will present at the Jefferies 2017 Global Healthcare Conference to be held on 6-8 June in New York, US.

The presentation will be on Thursday, 8 June at 4pm EDT and a webcast of the presentation will be available for 90 days on the conference website.

Additionally, a number of Arix’s Group Businesses will be present at the conference, including:

Jan-Anders Karlsson, Chief Executive Officer of Verona Pharma plc, will present on Thursday, 8 June at 11.30am EDT. Verona Pharma is a listed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercialising innovative therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory diseases with significant unmet needs.

The management team at Autolus Ltd will attend the conference and will be available for 1-1 meetings. Autolus is a private biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of engineered T-cell immunotherapy products based on its proprietary T-cell programming technology.