Chinook Therapeutics Announces Upcoming Presentations and Investor Conference Call at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2022

• Updated interim data to be presented from the IgA nephropathy (IgAN) patient cohort of the atrasentan phase 2 AFFINITY basket trial

• Additional interim data to be presented from Cohorts 1 and 2 of the ongoing phase 1/2 study of BION-1301 in patients with IgAN

• Research presentations include the preclinical efficacy profile of CHK-336 and multiple abstracts detailing Chinook's multidimensional approach to precision medicine in nephrology

• Chinook to host investor conference call and webcast on November 4, 2022 to review and discuss the abstracts and provide corporate updates
  

SEATTLE, Oct. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDNY), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of precision medicines for kidney diseases, today announced nine abstracts to be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2022 from November 3 – 6, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Five abstracts will be presented as posters, one abstract will be delivered as an oral presentation and three abstracts will be presented as informational posters.

Chinook will host a live conference call and webcast on Friday, November 4, 2022 at 6:30 pm EDT to review and discuss the abstracts and provide corporate updates. Members of the Chinook executive team will be joined by Sreedhar A. Mandayam, MD, MPH, MBA, FASN, Professor of Nephrology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine and Laura Kooienga, MD, practicing nephrologist and director of research at Colorado Kidney Care, for a discussion on Chinook’s programs.

Poster Presentations

Oral Presentation

Informational Posters

For more information on these and other abstracts, please visit the ASN Kidney Week 2022 website.

Investor Conference Call Details
To access the call, please dial (800) 715-9871 (domestic) or (646) 307-1963 (international) and provide the Conference ID 7505851 to the operator.

To access the live webcast and subsequent archived recording of this and other company presentations, please visit the Investors section of Chinook’s website. The archived webcast will remain available for replay on Chinook’s website for 90 days.

About Chinook Therapeutics, Inc.
Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing precision medicines for kidney diseases. Chinook’s product candidates are being investigated in rare, severe chronic kidney disorders with opportunities for well-defined clinical pathways. Chinook’s lead program is atrasentan, a phase 3 endothelin receptor antagonist for the treatment of IgA nephropathy and other proteinuric glomerular diseases. BION-1301, an anti-APRIL monoclonal antibody is being evaluated in a phase 1/2 trial for IgA nephropathy. CHK-336, an oral small molecule LDHA inhibitor for the treatment of hyperoxalurias, is being evaluated in a phase 1 healthy volunteer trial. In addition, Chinook is advancing research programs for other rare, severe chronic kidney diseases. Chinook is building its pipeline by leveraging insights in kidney single cell RNA sequencing, human-derived organoids and new translational models, to discover and develop therapeutics with differentiating mechanisms of action against key kidney disease pathways. To learn more, visit www.chinooktx.com.

Contact:
Noopur Liffick
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
investors@chinooktx.com
media@chinooktx.com

Source: Chinook Therapeutics, Inc.