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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Kazia Therapeutics Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an oncology-focused biotechnology company in South Korea. Its lead development candidate is paxalisib, a small molecule, brain-penetrant inhibitor of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, which is in Phase 3 clinical trial, for the treatment of glioblastoma, isocitrate dehydrogenase-mutant glioma, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, brain metastases, primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma, triple negative breast cancer, and ovarian cancer. The company also develops EVT801, a small-molecule selective inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3, which is in Phase 1 clinical trial, to treat advanced solid tumors. It has collaborations with the Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group, OIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Genentech Inc., Global Coalition for Adaptive Research, Vivesto AB, Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Ltd, Evotec SE, and Sovargen Co., Ltd. The company was formerly known as Novogen Limited and changed its name to Kazia Therapeutics Limited in November 2017. Kazia Therapeutics Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
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