Rege Nephro Co., Ltd

Rege Nephro is a clinical-stage biotech company developing cell therapy for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and small molecule for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), and founded in 2019. There are 13 million patients with CKD in Japan, of which are severe CKD patients forced to undergo artificial dialysis. The healthcare cost of dialysis is $12 billion, 4% of the total healthcare cost of Japan. However, there is still no curative treatment for CKD. Rege Nephro tries to treat patients suffering from CKD with cell therapy using nephron progenitor cells differentiated from iPS cells.