US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Sept. 23 for "Compositions and methods for treating cancer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,185, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Compositions and methods for treating cancer" was invented by Michael Freeman (West Hollywood, Calif.), Mirja Rotinen (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Ramachandran Murali (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Sungyong You (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating, inhibiting and/or reducing the severity of cancer in subjects in need thereof. The methods include providing an agent that inhibits expression or activity of ONECUT2 and administering a therapeutically effective amount of the agent so as to treat, ...