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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (Otsuka), a subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., announces that it has been awarded a grant for up to $17.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This will enable Otsuka to advance clinical trials of its investigational compound OPC-167832, in combination with its delamanid (DELTYBA^® is the brand name where approved outside the U.S.) and Johnson & Johnson’s bedaquiline (SIRTURO^® is the brand name), for patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis (DS-TB).

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., announces that it has entered a three-year collaboration with Holmusk Inc., a global data science and digital health company building the world’s largest real-world evidence (RWE) platform for behavioral health.

The Sozosei Foundation, a charitable foundation funded by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc., awarded grants to 10 organizations committed to the decriminalization of mental illness by ensuring the effective implementation of 988 as the nationwide mental health crisis hotline that goes live in July, 2022 and by increasing access to mental healthcare in communities across the United States.

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for filing the New Drug Application (NDA) for vadadustat for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in both adult patients on dialysis and adult patients not on dialysis.