US Patent Issued to MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER on March 25 for "Lantibiotics, lantibiotic-producing bacteria, compositions and methods of production and use thereof" (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,284, issued on March 25, was assigned to MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York).

"Lantibiotics, lantibiotic-producing bacteria, compositions and methods of production and use thereof" was invented by Eric Pamer (Montclair, N.J.), Sohn Kim (New York), Peter McKenney (New York) and Silvia Caballero (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to novel lantibiotics, lantibiotic pharmaceutical compositions, isolated and recombinant lantibiotic-producing bacteria, bacterial pharmaceutical compositions, methods of producing novel lantibiotics from lantibiotic-producing bacteria, and methods of...