ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Appoints Dr. John Yu Chairman of the Board.

LOS ANGELES -- ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (ICT) (OTCBB:IMUC) announced today that it has appointed Dr. John Yu to serve as its Chairman of the Board. Dr. Yu, who previously was ICT's Chief Scientific Officer, succeeds Dr. Manfred Mosk, who voluntarily resigned as ICT's Non-Executive Chairman. Dr. Mosk will continue as a member of ICT's Board of Directors.

Dr. Yu is a member of the full-time faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. An internationally renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Yu's clinical focus is on the treatment of brain and spinal tumors. He is conducting extensive research in immune and gene therapy for brain tumors. He has also done extensive research in the use of neural stem cells as delivery vehicles for brain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Yu was inducted into Castle and Connelly's America's Top Doctors in 2005 and has published articles in a number of prestigious journals, including The Lancet, Cancer Research, Cancer Gene Therapy and Journal of Neurological Science. He holds a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a master's degree from Harvard University's Department of Genetics. Dr. Yu was a Neuroscience Fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health in the Neuroimmunology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and was a Culpepper Scholar at the Molecular Neurogenetics Unit at that hospital.

"With John Yu becoming our Chairman, together with our recent appointment of Dr. Keith Black, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, as Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board, and with our recent addition of Dr. Robert Martuza, Chief of Neurosurgery Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and Higgins Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School, to our Board of Directors, ICT has assembled a scientific management team that we believe is without peer in the field of immunotherapy for brain tumors and other neurological disorders," said David Wohlberg, ICT's President and Chief Operating Officer. "We are also delighted that Dr. Mosk will be maintaining his association with us as a director and look forward to his continuing contributions to our company."

About ImmunoCellular Therapeutics

ICT is a Los Angeles, California based development stage company that will seek to develop cellular therapies for the treatment of brain and other cancers as well as neurodegenerative disorders. ICT's initial focus will be on a dendritic cell-based vaccine for treating brain tumors, with a Phase I trial for its leading vaccine product candidate targeted for the first quarter of 2007.

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