Benzinga | Oct 18, 2021 08:19AM EDT

Akebia Announces Vadadustat Efficacy And Safety Data To Be Presented At American Society Of Nephrology Kidney Week 2021

Akebia Therapeutics(r), Inc. (NASDAQ:AKBA) today announced that vadadustat efficacy and safety data related to clinical outcomes among patients with anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) will be presented at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2021 (ASN Kidney Week), which is taking place virtually November 4 -- November 7, 2021. Vadadustat is Akebia's investigational oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) inhibitor, a potential first-in-class product in the U.S. for the treatment of anemia due to CKD, which is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with a scheduled Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of March 29, 2022.