AKBA vs DMAC Comparison

Akebia Therapeutics Inc is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. The Company's operating segment is the business of developing and commercializing novel therapeutics. The current portfolio of the company includes Auryxia (ferric citrate), a medicine approved and marketed in the United States for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia, in adult patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease, Vafseo (vadadustat), an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase, inhibitor approved in Japan for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease, and HIF-PH inhibitors in preclinical development.

DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in developing treatment for ischemic diseases with two main clinical programs focused on acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and preeclampsia (PE). Its main product candidate DM199 (rinvecalinase alfa) is a recombinant form of human tissue kallikrein-1, which is a synthetic version of the naturally occurring protease enzyme kallikrein-1 and a rhKLK1 undergoing clinical development studies in both AIS and PE. The other product candidate in the company's pipeline is DM300, its patented recombinant human ulinastatin, a broad-spectrum serine protease inhibitor, being developed as a potential therapy for severe acute pancreatitis.