US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Oct. 28 for "Cyclic cell penetrating peptides comprising beta-hairpin motifs and methods of making and using thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,552, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Cyclic cell penetrating peptides comprising beta-hairpin motifs and methods of making and using thereof" was invented by Dehua Pei (Columbus, Ohio) and Ziqing Qian (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are peptides having activity as cell penetrating peptides. In some embodiments, the peptides can comprise a cell penetrating peptide moiety and beta-haripin turn creating moiety. In other embodiments, the peptides also comprise a cargo moiety."

The patent was filed on June 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/832,107.

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