Surface Oncology Announces Upcoming Investor Presentations

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Surface Oncology SURF, a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing next-generation immunotherapies that target the tumor microenvironment, announced this morning that it will host presentations at two investor conferences in the month of November.

Members of the management team of Surface Oncology will participate in a fireside chat at the 30^th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference, Tuesday, November 27^th, 8:30 a.m. ET at the Lotte Palace Hotel, New York City.

Additionally, members of management will participate in the Evercore ISI HealthCONx Conference, Wednesday, November 28, 2:20 p.m. ET at the Boston Harbor Hotel, Boston.

To access the live webcast of these events, please visit the "Events and Presentations" page within the Investors & Media section of the Surface Oncology website at www.surfaceoncology.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Surface Oncology website for 90 days following the conferences.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

Certain statements set forth in this press release constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as "believes," "expects," "plans," "potential," "would" or similar expressions and the negative of those terms. These forward-looking statements are based on our management's current beliefs and assumptions about future events and on information currently available to management.

Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties related to: our limited operating history and historical losses, our liquidity to fund the development of SRF231 and our other product candidates through current and future milestones, our ability to raise additional funding to complete the development and any commercialization of our product candidates, our dependence on the success of our lead product candidates, SRF231 and NZV930, results from preclinical studies or early clinical trials may not be representative of larger clinical trials, results from the clinical trials and preclinical studies of third parties working in immuno-oncology and our dependence on third parties in connection with our manufacturing, clinical trials and pre-clinical studies. Additional risks and uncertainties that could affect our future results are included in the section titled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Prospectus dated April 18, 2018, which is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and our website at www.surfaceoncology.com.

Additional information on potential risks will be made available in other filings that we make from time to time with the SEC. In addition, any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons if actual results differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.

ABOUT SURFACE ONCOLOGY:

Surface Oncology is an immuno-oncology company developing next-generation antibody therapies focused on the tumor microenvironment with lead programs targeting CD47, CD73, CD39 and IL-27. Surface's novel cancer immunotherapies are designed to achieve a clinically meaningful and sustained anti-tumor response and may be used alone or in combination with other therapies. The company has a pipeline of seven novel immunotherapies and a strategic collaboration with Novartis focused on up to three next-generation cancer immunotherapies.

For more information, please visit www.surfaceoncology.com

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617-665-5031

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