President and Chief Executive Officer
biopharmaceutical
Aerpio Pharmaceuticals
United States of America
Dr. Gardner was the founding CEO of Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. in 2007, following twenty-three years of pharmaceutical discovery and development work at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. As CEO of Akebia, Joseph completed four rounds of private financing and moved the lead anemia drug, AKB-6548, successfully through Phase 2 studies in humans. In March of 2014, Akebia Therapeutics raised over $100M in a public offering and is now a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. Joseph founded Aerpio as a spin out from Akebia Therapeutics, Inc in December of 2011 bringing over the Tie2 and HIF-1 activator programs.
pharmaceutical