US Patent Issued to FUDAN UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Multifunctional microsphere preparation for chemoembolization therapy and imaging of tumors, and preparation method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,442, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Multifunctional microsphere preparation for chemoembolization therapy and imaging of tumors, and preparation method therefor" was invented by Yuyi Qian (Shanghai) and Wei Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the microsphere preparation for chemoembolization therapy and nuclear medicine imaging of tumor, and a preparation method thereof, the microsphere is formed by means of using a polyvinyl alcohol derivative as a framework material and polymerizing, crosslinking and curing same with an N-acryl amino acid monomer. The microsphere can label radionuclide i...