Exhibit 99.1
ChemoCentryx Announces Appointment of Jennifer L. Herron to Board as Independent Director
— Ms. Herron brings more than 25 years of therapeutics commercial experience and brand management to ChemoCentryx Board —
SAN CARLOS, Calif., July 5, 2022 — ChemoCentryx, Inc., (Nasdaq: CCXI), today announced that Jennifer L. Herron has been appointed to the Board as an independent director, effective June 28, 2022. With this appointment, the Board increases the number of directors constituting the whole Board from eight to nine.
“With more than 25 years developing and refining her therapeutics commercial expertise, Jennifer is uniquely positioned to add immediate value to our TAVNEOS® (avacopan) commercial efforts,” said Thomas J. Schall, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of ChemoCentryx. “Jennifer’s values closely align with our organization, and we are confident this addition benefits patients, caregivers, and shareholders alike as we continue to grow and bring TAVNEOS to appropriate patients in need.”
Ms. Herron serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of ADC Therapeutics, which she joined in November 2019 to build its commercial organization and launch its first marketed product. Before ADC Therapeutics, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Immunogen and President and Executive Vice President, Global Commercial, at MorphoSys US. In 2016 and 2017, Ms. Herron led the Commercial organization at Ariad Pharmaceuticals as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer and prepared the organization to launch its second commercial product. Earlier in her career, she held commercial leadership roles of increasing responsibility with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis Oncology, and SmithKline Beecham Oncology (GlaxoSmithKline).
Ms. Herron holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA in Biology and Economics from Lehigh University.
“TAVNEOS is truly a unique medicine with potential to improve the lives of many patients that have been underserved for far too long,” said Ms. Herron. “I look forward to bringing my experience to ChemoCentryx, supplementing an already strong team with growing expertise in drug discovery, development, and commercial execution.”
About ChemoCentryx
ChemoCentryx is a biopharmaceutical company commercializing and 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. In the United States, ChemoCentryx markets TAVNEOS® (avacopan), the first approved orally administered inhibitor of the complement 5a receptor as an adjunctive treatment for adult patients with severe active ANCA-associated vasculitis. TAVNEOS is also in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and C3 glomerulopathy (C3G).
ChemoCentryx is also developing CCX559, a highly potent orally administered small molecule PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with solid tumors. A Phase I dose escalation study for CCX559 is ongoing and ChemoCentryx plans to advance to a Phase Ib/II study in the second half of 2022.
