US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Sept. 30 for "Compositions and methods for inhibiting ribosome inactivating proteins" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,135, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Compositions and methods for inhibiting ribosome inactivating proteins" was invented by Nilgun E. Tumer (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiao-Ping Li (Flemington, N.J.), Jacques Roberge (Piscataway, N.J.), David Augeri (Princeton, N.J.) and Bin Cao (New Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides in one aspect a method of treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing toxicity caused by a ribosome inactivating protein (RIP) in a subject. In certain embodiments, the method comprises administering to the subject a ther...