GlobeNewswire Inc | Sep 2, 2021 08:30AM EDT

September 02, 2021

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ChemoCentryx, Inc., (Nasdaq: CCXI), today announced that Thomas J. Schall, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in two upcoming investor conferences:

-- 2021 Virtual Wells Fargo Healthcare ConferenceFireside Chat Thursday, September 9 at 4:40 p.m. Eastern Time

-- H.C. Wainwright 23rd Annual Global Investment Conference On-demand presentation available beginning Monday, September 13 at6:00 a.m.Eastern Time

Live audio webcasts of the Wells Fargo fireside chat, as well as the on-demand H.C. Wainwright presentation can be accessed through the Investors section of the Company's website at www.ChemoCentryx.com. Replays of both the Wells Fargo and H.C. Wainwright presentations will be available on the Company's website for two weeks following the respective presentation dates.

AboutChemoCentryxChemoCentryx 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 is 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