US Patent Issued to Brigham Young University on Jan. 28 for "Method and compositions for the treatment of anemia through the inhibition of furin" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,107, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah).

"Method and compositions for the treatment of anemia through the inhibition of furin" was invented by Richard K. Watt (Provo, Utah) and Chad Hancock (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions that can be used to modulate the activity of furin in a subject are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the methods include administering a pharmaceutical composition including a protease inhibitor. In some embodiments, the protease inhibitor inhibits furin activity by binding to the catalytic site, the allosteric site, or both."

The pat...