ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,234, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"PAPD5 inhibitors and methods of use thereof" was invented by Suneet Agarwal (Lexington, Mass.), John J. Piwinski (Lebanon, N.J.), Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pa.) and Neha Nagpal (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides compounds that are PAPD5 inhibitors and are useful in treating a variety of conditions such as cancer, telomere diseases, and aging-related and other degenerative disorders."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/605,763.

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