US Patent Issued to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE on April 22 for "Anti-retroviral therapies and reverse transcriptase inhibitors for treatment of Alzheimer's disease" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,063, issued on April 22, was assigned to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Anti-retroviral therapies and reverse transcriptase inhibitors for treatment of Alzheimer's disease" was invented by Jerold Chun (La Jolla, Calif.), William J. Romanow (La Jolla, Calif.), Ming-Hsiang Lee (La Jolla, Calif.) and Victoria Blaho (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for inhibiting generation of one or more non-classical variant(s) of amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene. Provided herein are methods for diagnosing an individual having or suspected of having Alzheimer's-dis...