US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Oct. 14 for "Peptides, hydrogel compositions and methods of use thereof" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,773, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Peptides, hydrogel compositions and methods of use thereof" was invented by Sven-Ulrik Gorr (Minneapolis), Conrado Aparicio (Minneapolis) and Zhou Ye (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides antibiotic BPI Fold Containing Family A Member 2 (BPIFA2) peptides, compositions comprising a BPIFA2 peptide, hydrogels comprising a BPIFA2 peptide, nanofibrillar networks comprising a BPIFA2 peptide, and tissue scaffolds comprising BPIFA2 peptides. The peptide, compositions, hydrogels nanofibrillar networks and tissue scaffold...