ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,391, issued on March 25, was assigned to AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Anti-GDF-15 antibodies" was invented by Lorena Lerner (Newton Centre, Mass.), Sandra Abbott (Boston), Ailin Bai (Newton, Mass.), Ting Chen (Acton, Mass.), Maria Isabel Chiu (Newton Centre, Mass.), Qing Liu (Acton, Mass.), Laura Poling (Boston), Nianjun Tao (Brighton, Mass.), Solly Weiler (Newton, Mass.), Zhigang Weng (Brookline, Mass.), William M. Winston Jr. (Marlborough, Mass.) and Jeno Gyuris (Lincoln, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monoclonal antibodies that bind and inhibit the activity of human GDF15 are disclosed. The antibodies can ...