ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,980, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GeneCraft Inc. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition comprising RUNX3 protein and CDK4 inhibitor or mTOR inhibitor cotreatment for prevention or treatment of cancer" was invented by Suk Chul Bae (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Jung Won Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and You Soub Lee (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treatment of cancer, comprising a Runx3 (Runt-related transcription factor 3) protein, a polynucleotide encoding thereof, a vector carrying the polynucleotide or a viru...