Akebia Therapeutics

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of therapeutics for patients with kidney diseases. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 194 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-03-20. The firm's portfolio includes Vafseo and Auryxia. Vafseo is an orally administered medicine, approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adult patients on dialysis for at least three months. Auryxia (ferric citrate) is an orally administered medicine approved and marketed in the United States for two indications: the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease (DD-CKD), and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in adult patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (NDD-CKD). The firm's development pipeline includes mid-stage rare kidney disease pipeline assets (praliciguat and AKB-097) and early-stage pipeline assets (AKB-9090 and AKB-10108), which are HIF molecules.