Akebia Therapeutics

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A fully integrated biopharmaceutical company with the purpose of bettering the lives of people impacted by kidney disease.

The US company's lead product candidate is vadadustat. It is part of a new class of investigational agents called oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors.

Within Japan, Vafseo (vadadustat) is approved as a treatment for anemia due to CKD in both dialysis-dependent and non-dialysis dependent adult patients.