Akebia Therapeutics
Akebia Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapies for kidney disease. Its lead product is Auryxia, a ferric citrate used to control serum phosphorus in adult patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis or with hyperphosphatemia, and vadadustat, an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor studied for treating anemia due to CKD in both dialysis-dependent and non-dialysis patients. The company collaborates with Otsuka Pharmaceutical for vadadustat in the United States, European Union, Russia, China, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, and other regions; with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma for the development and commercialization of vadadustat in Japan and other Asian countries; and with Janssen Pharmaceutica for worldwide development and commercialization of HIF-prolyl hydroxylase-targeted compounds. Akebia was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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