GlobeNewswire Inc | Feb 25, 2021 08:30AM EST

February 25, 2021

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ChemoCentryx, Inc., (Nasdaq: CCXI), today announced that Thomas J. Schall, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at two upcoming investor conferences:

Raymond James42nd Annual Institutional Investors ConferenceWednesday, March 3 at 2:10 p.m. Eastern Time

H.C. Wainwright Global Life Sciences ConferenceOn-demand presentation available beginning Monday, March 9 at7:00 a.m.Eastern Time

Webcasts of the presentations can be accessed through the Investors section of the Company's website at www.ChemoCentryx.com. A replay of each presentation will be available on the Company's website for two weeks following the respective presentation dates.

AboutChemoCentryx

ChemoCentryx is a biopharmaceutical company developing new medications for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and cancer. ChemoCentryx targets the chemokine and chemoattractant systems to discover, develop and commercialize orally administered therapies. ChemoCentryxs lead drug candidate, avacopan (CCX168), successfully completed a pivotal Phase III trial in ANCA-associated vasculitis and a New Drug Application is under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Avacopan is also in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa and C3 glomerulopathy (C3G).

ChemoCentryx also has early-stage drug candidates that target chemoattractant receptors in other inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and in cancer.

Contacts:

Susan M. Kanaya

Executive Vice President,

Chief Financial and Administrative Officerinvestor@chemocentryx.com

Media: Stephanie Tomei408.234.1279media@chemocentryx.com

Investors:Lee Roth, Burns McClellan212.213.0006 lroth@burnsmc.com