US Patent Issued to Duke University on March 25 for "Stimuli-responsive PEG-like polymer-based drug delivery platform" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,308, issued on March 25, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Stimuli-responsive PEG-like polymer-based drug delivery platform" was invented by Ashutosh Chilkoti (Durham, N.C.) and Imran Ozer (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are thermally responsive polymer-therapeutic molecule conjugates comprising a therapeutic molecule conjugated to a thermally responsive polymer with an acrylate, methacrylate, acrylamide, and/or methacrylamide backbone and a plurality of oligoethylene glycol side chains."

The patent was filed on April 30, 2019, under Application No. 17/051,202.

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