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Healthcare Development News - What’s Happening in Renal Disease

Airdate: November 7, 2023

With our latest episode of The Life Science Report we turn our focus towards the chronic and rare disease angle of kidney disease. Recently, there have been some changes in treatment, notable commercial launches and growing interest in the area from pharma consolidators.

Back Bay’s Dr. Pete Bak and Christian Thienel walk us through the evolution of the field and various aspects of the renal disease landscape. Topics in this podcast include:

  • The links between cardio and metabolic diseases and the therapeutic approaches and label expansions taking place in the renal disease landscape

  • The impact of Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2s (SGLT2s) in kidney disease over these last five or six years, and how they affect standard of care and end stage renal disease

  • Historic evolutions beyond Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), from rare diseases to all types of indications of CKD

  • Understanding potential treatment priorities when some therapies have benefits in multiple indications

  • Recent deals, including Novartis’ acquisition of Chinook Therapeutics and Novo Nordisk’s acquisition of KBP Biosciences’ ocedurenone, etc.  

Listen to the full episode here.