US Patent Issued to CITY OF HOPE on July 15 for "Anti-CD6 antibody-growth factor complex for treating autoimmune diseases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,998, issued on July 15, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Anti-CD6 antibody-growth factor complex for treating autoimmune diseases" was invented by Jose Enrique Montero Casimiro (Duarte, Calif.), Bart Otto Roep (Duarte, Calif.) and John Charles Williams (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are, inter alia, anti-CD6 antibody-growth factor complexes including an anti-CD6 antibody portion bound to a growth factor protein (e.g., EGF) through a linker, which may be cleavable by a protease (e.g., diabetic microenvironment specific protease). The compositions provided herein are, inter alia, useful fo...