Akebia to Present at the 2016 UBS Global Healthcare Conference

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering innovative therapies to patients through the biology of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), today announced that John P. Butler, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 2016 UBS Global Healthcare Conference on Monday, May 23, 2016, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The conference is being held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on the company's website at http://ir.akebia.com/events.cfm. An archived presentation will be available for 90 days.

About Akebia Therapeutics

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on delivering innovative therapies to patients with kidney disease through hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) biology. Akebia has completed Phase 2 development of its lead product candidate, vadadustat (formerly AKB-6548), an oral therapy for the treatment of anemia related to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in both non-dialysis and dialysis patients. Enrollment in the PRO2TECT Phase 3 program in NDD-CKD patients commenced in late 2015 and the INNO2VATE Phase 3 program in DD-CKD patients is expected to commence in 2016. Akebia's second product candidate, AKB-6899, is expected to commence clinical development in 2016. For more information, please visit our website at www.akebia.com.

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