US Patent Issued to MOR RESEARCH APPLICATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Mitochondrial transplantation and use thereof in ocular diseases" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,644, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MOR RESEARCH APPLICATIONS LTD. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Mitochondrial transplantation and use thereof in ocular diseases" was invented by Ziv Rotfogel (Kfar Saba, Israel), Keren Ben-Yaakov (Rehovot, Israel) and Michal Simon (Kibbutz Ein-Hashofet, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treatment of ocular diseases and conditions associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, mitochondrial destruction and/or mitochondrial depletion in the eye, are disclosed. These methods comprise the transplantation of viable exogenous, isolated mitochondria to ocular tissues. Mitochondrial transplantation i...