US Patent Issued to Duke University on Sept. 23 for "Compositions for the treatment of pathogenic- and/or chemical-induced lung injury and for the treatment of cancer and methods of using same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,891, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Compositions for the treatment of pathogenic- and/or chemical-induced lung injury and for the treatment of cancer and methods of using same" was invented by Ann Marie Pendergast (Durham, N.C.) and Aaditya Khatri (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the treatment of pathogen-induced and/or chemical-induced lung injury, for regenerating lung epithelial cells following lung injury, for treating cancer, and for sensitizing a subject suffering from cancer to a chemotherapeutic agent."

The patent ...