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Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. and Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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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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Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of human disease. The company offers Sotagliflozin, an orally-delivered small molecule drug to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, hospitalization for heart failure, and urgent heart failure visits in adults with heart failure or type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease or CKD, and other cardiovascular risk factors. Its orally-delivered small molecule drug candidates under development include sotagliflozin for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or HCM and type 1 diabetes that is in Phase 3 clinical trial; LX9211, which has completed Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of neuropathic pain; and LX9851 for the treatment of obesity and associated cardiometabolic disorders, as well as for weight management. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has strategic collaboration and license agreements with Viatris Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

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