ChemoCentryx, Inc. Announces Departure of William C. Fairey, Jr. as Chief Operating Officer, Effective January 18, 2019

ChemoCentryx, Inc. is an integrated biopharmaceutical company commercializing and developing new medications for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and cancer. The Company is targeting the chemokine and chemoattractant systems to discover, develop and commercialize orally-administered therapies. Its development pipelines include TAVNEOS and Immuno-Oncology. TAVNEOS is for the treatment of severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and seeks to advance TAVNEOS into Phase III clinical development for the treatment of severe HS. The Company's CCX559 is orally-administered investigational inhibitor for programmed death protein 1/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1), which is developing for the treatment of various cancers. It markets TAVNEOS (avacopan) as an adjunctive treatment for adult patients with severe active anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis associated vasculitis, specifically granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis.