US Patent Issued to Decibel Therapeutics on Feb. 10 for "Cochlear inner hair cell promoters and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,930, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Decibel Therapeutics Inc. (Boston).

"Cochlear inner hair cell promoters and uses thereof" was invented by Joseph Burns (Newton, Mass.), Adam Palermo (Somerville, Mass.), Gabriela Pregernig (Cambridge, Mass.) and Martin Schwander (Auburndale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides polynucleotides containing inner hair cell-specific promoters, as well as vectors containing the same, that can be used to promote expression of a transgene specifically in inner hair cells. The polynucleotides described herein may be operably linked to a transgene, such as a transgene encoding a ...