Neoleukin Therapeutics Announces Change of Location of Annual Meeting of Stockholders to Be Held May 5, 2020

SEATTLE, April 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neoleukin Therapeutics, Inc. (“Neoleukin”) (NASDAQ:NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company utilizing sophisticated computational methods to design de novo protein therapeutics, announced today that, due to the public health impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the location of the Company’s 2020 annual meeting of stockholders has been changed and will be held in a virtual meeting format only. As previously announced, the annual meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. To be admitted to the annual meeting at , stockholders must enter the control number found on their proxy card, voting instruction form or notice of internet availability previously received. Further information regarding this change to the location of the annual meeting can be found in the supplemental proxy materials filed by Neoleukin with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 16, 2020.

About Neoleukin Therapeutics, Inc.

Neoleukin is a biopharmaceutical company creating next generation immunotherapies for cancer, inflammation and autoimmunity using de novo protein design technology. Neoleukin uses sophisticated computational methods to design proteins that demonstrate specific pharmaceutical properties that provide potentially superior therapeutic benefit over native proteins. Neoleukin’s lead product candidate, NL-201, is a combined IL-2 and IL-15 agonist designed to eliminate alpha receptor binding. For more information, please visit the Neoleukin website: .

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