US Patent Issued to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Aug. 5 for "Methods for treating pancreatitis" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,320, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

"Methods for treating pancreatitis" was invented by Dannielle D. Engle (San Diego) and David A. Tuveson (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method for preventing, treating, ameliorating, or managing pancreatitis in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody or functional fragment thereof that binds to CA19-9."

The patent was filed on Sept. 9, 2019, under Application No. 17/274,783.

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