US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on May 13 for "Composition for preventing or treating Parkinson's disease, comprising AEG-1 S298D as active ingredient" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,242, issued on May 13, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Composition for preventing or treating Parkinson's disease, comprising AEG-1 S298D as active ingredient" was invented by Sang Ryong Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Minsang Shin (Daegu, South Korea) and Eunju Leem (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating Parkinson's disease comprising AEG-1 (S298D) as an active ingredient, and in the present invention, a point mutation was introduced into AEG-1 to induce a constitutively active...