US Patent Issued to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE on June 24 for "Methods of diagnosing and treating Alzheimer's disease" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,495, issued on June 24, was assigned to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Methods of diagnosing and treating Alzheimer's disease" was invented by Jerold Chun (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ming-Hsiang Lee (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for identifying and measuring one or more non-classical variant(s) of amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene. Provided herein are methods for diagnosing and treating an individual having or suspected of having Alzheimer's disease following identification of an expression profile or an activity profile of the one or more non-clas...