US Patent Issued to HTYR Acquisition on July 29 for "Compositions and methods for treating T cell exhaustion" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,217, issued on July 29, was assigned to HTYR Acquisition LLC (Philadelphia).

"Compositions and methods for treating T cell exhaustion" was invented by Yosef Refaeli (Denver), Brian C. Turner (Denver) and Thomas R. Payne (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating T cell exhaustion in a subject, by administering a PTD-MYC fusion protein (e.g., an HIV TAT-MYC fusion protein) or immune cells treated with a PTD-MYC fusion protein. Kits for use in practicing the methods are also provided herein."

The patent was filed on May 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/610,592.

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