Ardelyx

Ardelyx, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the business of developing and commercializing biopharmaceutical products. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and currently employs 489 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-06-19. The firm markets two therapies from the active ingredient tenapanor, a sodium/hydrogen exchanger (NHE3) inhibitor. NHE3 is an antiporter expressed on the apical surface of the small and large intestines. Tenapanor is a minimally absorbed, first-in-class, oral, small molecule therapy. Tenapanor, branded as IBSRELA, is approved in the United States for the treatment of adults with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation. Tenapanor, branded as XPHOZAH, is approved in the United States to reduce serum phosphorus in adults with chronic kidney disease on dialysis as add-on therapy in patients who have an inadequate response to phosphate binders or who are intolerant of any dose of phosphate binder therapy. In addition to commercializing IBSRELA and XPHOZAH, it is also developing a next-generation NHE3 inhibitor.