US Patent Issued to Children's National Medical Center on April 22 for "Compositions and methods for treating and preventing muscular disorders and dystrophies, steroid side effects, and inflammation" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,304, issued on April 22, was assigned to Children's National Medical Center (Washington).

"Compositions and methods for treating and preventing muscular disorders and dystrophies, steroid side effects, and inflammation" was invented by Christopher Heier (Washington) and Alyson Fiorillo (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions comprising an antisense RNA sequence comprising a region of complementarity that is substantially complementary to an miRNA. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antisense RNA molecule, optionally further comprising an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid are als...