US Patent Issued to Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing Proteome Research Center on Feb. 3 for "Use of Acyl coenzyme A: cholesterol acyltransferase-1 in diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,943, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Academy of Military Medical Sciences (Beijing) and Beijing Proteome Research Center (Beijing).

"Use of Acyl coenzyme A: cholesterol acyltransferase-1 in diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer" was invented by Ying Jiang (Beijing), Aihua Sun (Beijing), Fuchu He (Beijing), Chaoying Li (Beijing), Jinan Zhou (Beijing) and Handong Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A use of a substance for inhibiting SOAT1 gene expression and/or protein activity. The use is selected from at least one of: (a) Preparation of kits for liver cancer diagnosis; (b) Preparation of kits for liver cancer prognosis; (...