Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Akebia's First Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Mercedes Carrasco. Please go ahead.

Mercedes Carrasco
Senior Director of Investor & Corporate Communications

Thank you, and welcome to Akebia's First Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Update Conference Call. Please note that a press release was issued earlier today, Thursday, May 7, detailing our first quarter 2026 financial results, and that release is available on the Investors section of our website. For your convenience, a replay of today's call will be available on our website after we conclude.

Joining me for today's call, we have John Butler, Chief Executive Officer; Nick Grund, Chief Commercial Officer; and Erik Ostrowski, Chief Financial and Chief Business Officer. Dr. Steven Burke, our Chief Medical Officer, will also be available during Q&A.

I'd like to remind everyone that this call includes forward-looking statements. Each forward-looking statement on this call is subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these statements. Additional information describing these risks is included in the financial results press release that we