US Patent Issued to Meharry Medical College on April 22 for "Methods for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,351, issued on April 22, was assigned to Meharry Medical College (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Methods for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease" was invented by Amosy M'Koma (Antioch, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials are disclosed for testing biomarkers in a subject suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are described herein. Such detection can be useful for diagnosing and treating ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), two forms of IBD that are otherwise difficult to distinguish. The method includes measuring the level of one or more of several biomarkers, including HD5 or MMP-7, whi...