US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on May 27 for "Compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer cells by induction of cytotoxic oxidative stress" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,986, issued on May 27, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer cells by induction of cytotoxic oxidative stress" was invented by Dos D. Sarbassov (Houston), Xinggang Wu (Houston), Lee Ellis (Houston) and Rajat Bhattacharya (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of cancers with D-VC and arsenic trioxide. In some aspects, cancers for treatment according to the embodiments include cancers with increased GLUT1 expression and/or comprise KRAS mutation."

The patent was filed on Aug...