ESG

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Environment, Health and Safety

or pharmaceutical companies, the product life cycle and supply chain require the use of valuable resources. FibroGen is committed to continuously reducing its environmental footprint. We adhere to California environmental, health and safety standards and city ordinances. Reports from city inspections are shared with the management and appropriate corrective actions are executed across the Company. We have implemented programs to recycle or donate electronic equipment when possible, provide organic compost services in the workplace, use environmentally preferred office and janitorial supplies, reduced paper waste, and have worked with our collaboration partners to reduce the amount of our product packaging and to implement good shipping practices to consolidate waste. In addition to adhering to environmental regulations, we offer a subsidized public transit commuter program, onsite electric vehicle charging stations, a flexible work from home policy, global access to video conferencing and meetings, and online medical monitoring to reduce travel.

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Ensuring that we have numerous programs in place to increase safety is critical to our success and fosters an experience of excellence at FibroGen. We continue to invest in lab and employee safety as well as employee health. We are also continuing to make investments in product safety and quality, and patient safety through our support of patient advocacy groups, patient support groups, expanded drug access programs, and clinical trial extensions.

 

See our Enterprise-Level Environmental Policy

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Social, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The biotechnology industry is an extremely competitive labor market and recruiting and retaining employees is critical to the continued success of our business. We are highly committed to building a diverse, dedicated, and impassioned team to deliver innovative therapies to patients facing serious unmet medical needs. Our core values of empowerment, integrity, and respect for people are fundamental to how we attract, grow, engage, and retain our people. We focus on recruiting, retaining, and developing employees from a diverse range of backgrounds to conduct our research, development, commercialization, and administrative activities.

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Our offerings include competitive, innovative and equitable pay practices, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement and life insurance offerings, learning and giving programs, and flexible work arrangements.  We also sponsor an annual promotions nomination and approval process.

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On our Board of Directors, 2 of 5 members (40%) are female and 1 of 5 members (20%) identify as Asian. As of March 2025, our U.S. workforce is 54% female. Our U.S. employees that self-report ethnicity are 62% Asian, Hispanic or Black.

   

See our Human Rights Policy

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Governance and Risk Management

To enhance our corporate governance efforts, we maintain an internal audit function, made substantial improvements to our Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program and strengthened our internal controls over financial reporting. Throughout the year, the Board and its Committees engage with management to discuss a wide range of enterprise risks, such as risks related to FibroGen’s businesses, cybersecurity, and enterprise risk management, and they confirm the alignment of risk assessment and mitigation with business strategy.

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We implemented an ERM program in 2022 and since then, we have performed enterprise risk assessments to help us identify and manage risks and seize opportunities that may arise as we seek to accomplish our corporate goals. ERM affects all areas of our business, including how we approach new or emerging challenges and opportunities and allocate resources. One of the organic benefits of a formal ERM process is that it builds and strengthens the risk awareness across the organization (enterprise-level, functional, and project-level risks) with a patient-first mindset. As we pursue our mission of delivering therapies in areas of significant unmet need, ERM facilitates and supports the delivery of our corporate objectives. This will be achieved through understanding and identifying risks and opportunities while putting the appropriate plans in place to capitalize on the ERM.

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With respect to cybersecurity risks, our Board of Directors recognizes that cybersecurity represents an important component of the Company's overall enterprise risk management. Throughout the year, our Board of Directors and its Committees engage with management to discuss and mitigate a wide range of enterprise risks, including cybersecurity. We seek to mitigate cybersecurity risks through a cross-functional approach, including our Cybersecurity Committee, focused on preserving the confidentiality, security, and availability of the information that the Company collects and stores by identifying, preventing and mitigating cybersecurity threats and effectively responding to and remediating cybersecurity incidents as and if they occur.

We continually invest in information and cybersecurity services and technologies. Technical safeguards are designed to protect the Company's information systems from cybersecurity threats, including firewalls, continuous intrusion detection and response system(s), data leak prevention strategies, enhanced email protection software, antimalware functionality and access controls. These safeguards are evaluated and improved through periodic assessments and review of cybersecurity threat intelligence.  We rely on third parties to support its cybersecurity program, including but not limited to email security management, security operations and vulnerability management.

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We provide regular (at least annual) training regarding cybersecurity threats to equip our personnel with effective tools to address cybersecurity threats, and to communicate the Company's evolving information security procedures.

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Our compliance program is an essential application of our core value of integrity. Employees are enrolled in the annual compliance program, which emphasizes the shared responsibility for all colleagues to be good stewards of our organization through our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of business conduct and ethics. The annual compliance program includes certifications to confirm that employees understand and agree to abide by FibroGen’s corporate policies and guidelines, including our Anti-Bribery Policy, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Insider Trading and Trading Window Policy, Speak-Up and Reporting Policy, Social Media Policy, and Related Persons Transactions & SEC Compliance Policy, as well as engaging video program and presentations to enhance the understanding of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in general and to clarify our anti-bribery and data privacy guidelines. 100% of employees completed the 2024 annual compliance program. All new hires are also enrolled into such compliance program after they are hired. In addition, the Company operates a telephone hotline and whistleblower website available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that allow employees to report unethical practices anonymously.

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See our Code of Vendor and Partner Conduct

See our Global Code of Ethics for Clinical Trials 

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