MPLT vs AKBA Comparison

MapLight Therapeutics Inc is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is focused on improving the lives of patients suffering from debilitating central nervous system, or CNS, disorders. The company is engaged in psychiatry and neuroscience research to address the lack of circuit-specific pharmacotherapies available for patients. The product candidates of the company include ML-007C-MA, ML-004, ML-021, ML-009, and other pipeline products.

Akebia Therapeutics Inc is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. The Company's operating segment is the business of developing and commercializing novel therapeutics for people with kidney disease. 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, in adult patients, HIF-PH inhibitors in preclinical development.