US Patent Issued to Brown University, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES on Feb. 10 for "Compositions and methods for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria" (Rhode Island, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,357, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.) and FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Compositions and methods for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria" was invented by Jonathan Kurtis (Providence, R.I.), Andrew V. Oleinikov (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Dipak K. Raj (Lincoln, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions and methods for treating P. falciparum malaria by specifically activating apoptosis in cells that express PfGARP without activating apoptosis in subject host cells or parasite cells that do not express PfGARP."

The patent was fi...