Akebia Therapeutics, Inc.
Akebia Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for patients with kidney diseases. Its product portfolio includes Vafseo (vadadustat), an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase, which is in Phase III development for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in dialysis-dependent (DD) and non-dialysis dependent (NDD) patients; and Auryxia, a ferric citrate that is used to control the serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with DD-CKD and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult patients with NDD-CKD. The company is also developing AKB-9090 for treating cardiac surgery-related acute kidney injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome; and AKB-10108 for the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in neonates. The company has license and collaboration agreements with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation for the development and commercialization of Vafseo in Japan and other Asian countries. Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Equillium, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, develops therapeutics to treat severe autoimmune and inflammatory, or immuno-inflammatory disorders with unmet medical need in the United States. Its lead product candidate is Itolizumab (EQ001), a first-in-class anti-CD6 immune-modifying monoclonal antibody, which is in phase 3 clinical trial to treat acute graft-versus-host disease, as well as completed Phase 1b clinical trial to treat systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis and in phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. The company also develops EQ101, first-in-class, selective, tri-specific inhibitor of IL-2, IL-9 and IL-15, which completed Phase 1/2 to treat cutaneous T cell lymphoma. It serves its products to gastroenterology, dermatology, hematology, transplant science, rheumatology, pulmonology, and oncology areas. The company has a collaboration and license agreement with Biocon SA to develop, make, have made, use, sell, have sold, offer for sale, import and otherwise exploit itolizumab (EQ001) and any pharmaceutical composition or preparation containing or comprising itolizumab (EQ001) that uses Biocon technology or Biocon know-how, or collectively, a Biocon Product. The company was formerly known as Attenuate Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Equillium, Inc. in May 2017. Equillium, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.
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