US Patent Issued to BATTERJEE MEDICAL COLLEGE on July 29 for "Dithienyl disulfiram derivatives as selective ALDH1A1 inhibitors" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,401, issued on July 29, was assigned to BATTERJEE MEDICAL COLLEGE (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Dithienyl disulfiram derivatives as selective ALDH1A1 inhibitors" was invented by Ziad Omran (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Omeima Abdullah (Makkah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selectively inhibiting aldehyde dehydrogenase 1a1 (ALDH1a1) relative to aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) in a subject may include administering to the subject in need thereof, an effective amount of a disulfiram derivative having a structure which may be substituted and is optionally a salt, solvate, tautomer, stereoisomer, or mixture thereof, the...