US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE on March 4 for "FXR small molecule agonist and preparation method therefor and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,841, issued on March 4, was assigned to SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shanghai) and VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"FXR small molecule agonist and preparation method therefor and use thereof" was invented by Huaqiang Xu (Pudong Shanghai, China), Jia Li (Pudong Shanghai, China), Jingjing Shi (Pudong Shanghai, China), Yi Zang (Pudong Shanghai, China), Dandan Sun (Pudong Shanghai, China), Mingliang Liu (Pudong Shanghai, China), Rongrong Xie (Pudong Shanghai, China), Erli You (Pudong Shanghai, China), Lixin Gao (Pudong Shanghai, China) and Qian Tan (Pudong Shanghai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Paten...