US Patent Issued to Biomed Valley Discoveries on Oct. 7 for "C. novyi for the treatment of solid tumors in non-human animals" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,920, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Biomed Valley Discoveries Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"C. novyi for the treatment of solid tumors in non-human animals" was invented by Saurabh Saha (Wellesley Hills, Mass.), Shibin Zhou (Owings Mills, Md.), Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore) and Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, inter alia, methods for treating or ameliorating an effect of a solid tumor present in a non-human animal. These methods include administering intratumorally to the non-human animal a unit dose of C. novyi, preferably C. novyi NT, colony forming units (CFUs), which cont...