US Patent Issued to Mural Oncology on June 24 for "UPAR antibodies and fusion proteins with the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,293, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mural Oncology Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"UPAR antibodies and fusion proteins with the same" was invented by Jijun Dong (Weston, Mass.), Pinar Gurel (Cambridge, Mass.), Joshua Heiber (Watertown, Mass.) and Yuan Hu (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) binding polypeptides (e.g., uPAR antigen binding proteins), and fusion proteins comprising said uPAR binding polypeptides and a cytokine or variant thereof. The disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the uPAR binding polypeptides and fusion pr...