US Patent Issued to Rush University Medical Center on March 18 for "Compositions and methods for treating neurological and other disorders" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,422, issued on March 18, was assigned to Rush University Medical Center (Chicago).

"Compositions and methods for treating neurological and other disorders" was invented by Kalipada Pahan (Skokie, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating neurological and other disorders, including autoimmune disorders are described. Also described is a method of treating a disorder in which Toll-like Receptor 2 (TLR2) activation by binding to myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88) plays a role in disease pathogenesis. Further a method is described that includes the administration of a composition, including a peptide sequ...