US Patent Issued to RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER on March 4 for "Compositions and methods for treating neurological disorders" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,637, issued on March 4, was assigned to RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (Chicago).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for treating a neurological disorder in a subject, the method including administering to the subject in need of such treatment a composition including a therapeutically effective amount of a CCR5 antagonist. The CCR5 antagonist may be, for example, maraviroc. The neurological disorder may be, for example, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, dem...