Immuneering Corporation Appoints Thomas J. Schall to Its Board of Directors

Immuneering Corporation announced the appointment of Thomas J. Schall, Ph.D., former Chairman, CEO and Founder of ChemoCentryx before its acquisition by Amgen, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Schall founded ChemoCentryx Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company with an approved product, and served as its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman for 25 years until its acquisition by Amgen for nearly $4 billion in 2022. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Schall worked at the DNAX Research Institute, a division of Schering-Plough Corporation.

Prior to the DNAX Research Institute, he was a scientist with Genentech Inc.Dr. Schall participated in some of the earliest discoveries of chemokine system function and activities, and his laboratories have been responsible for the discovery or co-discovery of a large percentage of all known chemokine receptors. Dr. Schall received his B.S. in biology from Northern Illinois University and his Ph.D. in cancer biology from Stanford University.