Acer Therapeutics Inc. (ACER) SEC Filing 10-K Annual report for the fiscal year ending Sunday, December 31, 2017

Exhibit 99.1

Acer Therapeutics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2017 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

Acer continues progression from development to potential commercialization of EDSIVO™

NEWTON, MA – March 7, 2018 – Acer Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ACER), a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases with critical unmet medical need, today reported financial results for the quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2017 and provided an update on the Company’s recent corporate developments.

“We accomplished a lot in 2017 that sets the stage nicely for us to deliver on multiple significant milestones anticipated in 2018. We believe that by going public, hiring several key executives and raising enough capital to fund our current operating requirements through the end of this year, we are now in a position to finalize the critical activities over the next few months required to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) for EDSIVO™ in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS),” said Chris Schelling, CEO and Founder of Acer. “We are also working very closely with the vEDS community to better understand their needs and to learn how we can best partner with them going forward. Collectively, we are exploring how Acer can begin supporting initiatives that help strengthen patient advocacy and establish centers of excellence, accelerate diagnosis and optimize patient care, and sponsor additional research collaborations with leading experts in vEDS.” Mr. Schelling continued, “Beyond vEDS, we look to advance and expand our pipeline with the goal of bringing multiple products to patients with serious ultra-orphan diseases over the next several years.”

2017 and Recent Highlights

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