US Patent Issued to Duke University on Jan. 13 for "Compositions and methods for treating pain, inflammation, infection, malaria, and sepsis" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,356, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for treating pain, inflammation, infection, malaria, and sepsis" was invented by Ru-Rong Ji (Durham, N.C.), Sangsu Bang (Durham, N.C.) and Zhen-Zhong Xu (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treating a disease or disorder in a subject in need thereof. The methods may include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a GPR37 agonist. The disease or disorder may be selected from inflammation, inflammatory pain, chronic pain, viral infection, bacterial infecti...