US Patent Issued to FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA), INSTITUCIO CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANCATS on May 27 for "Method for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of breast cancer metastasis" (Spanish, Serbian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,642, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) (Barcelona, Spain) and INSTITUCIO CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANCATS (Barcelona, Spain).

"Method for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of breast cancer metastasis" was invented by Roger Gomis (Barcelona, Spain), Maria Tarragona (Barcelona, Spain), Anna Arnal (Barcelona, Spain) and Milica Pavlovic (Lajkovac, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis in breast cancer which comprises determining if the c-MAF gene is amplified in a primary tumor sampl...