US Patent Issued to Juvena Therapeutics on July 15 for "Regenerative polypeptides and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,963, issued on July 15, was assigned to Juvena Therapeutics Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Regenerative polypeptides and uses thereof" was invented by Hanadie Yousef (Redwood City, Calif.), Jeremy O'Connell (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thach Mai (South San Francisco, Calif.), Rami Jaafar (San Francisco) and Zhihua Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are polypeptides comprising an FGF17, IGF2, or BMP? amino acid sequence and an amino acid sequence from a heterologous polypeptide useful for the treatment of soft-tissue and muscle diseases, disorders, and injuries. Also described herein are synergistic combinatio...