US Patent Issued to CalciMedica on Feb. 10 for "Methods and compositions for treating acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,371, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CalciMedica Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for treating acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome" was invented by Kenneth A. Stauderman (La Jolla, Calif.), Michael Dunn (La Jolla, Calif.), Sudarshan Hebbar (La Jolla, Calif.) and Rachel Leheny (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods related to the treatment of acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) including viral pneumonia through the pharmaceutical manipulation of calcium signaling are disclosed. Such compositions and methods may be used to r...