US Patent Issued to DRIVE THERAPEUTICS on Jan. 27 for "Stem-loop compositions and methods for inhibiting interleukin-8" (California, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,734, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DRIVE THERAPEUTICS LLC (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Stem-loop compositions and methods for inhibiting interleukin-8" was invented by Carl Erickson (Corte Madera, Calif.), Christopher P. Rusconi (Durham, N.C.), Arijit Bhowmick (Astoria, N.Y.), Matthew Levy (Cary, N.C.), Matthew Walker (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Kevin G. McLure (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses methods and compositions for inhibiting functions associated with Interleukin-8 (IL8). The methods and compositions may involve the use of aptamers for binding to IL8 and preventing or reducing association of ...