US Patent Issued to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Feb. 10 for "Small molecule modulators of pantothenate kinases" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,663, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc..

"Small molecule modulators of pantothenate kinases" was invented by Richard E. Lee (Cordova, Tenn.), Rajendra P. Tangallapally (Collierville, Tenn.), Charles O. Rock (Bartlett, Tenn.), Suzanne Jackowski (Bartlett, Tenn.), Anne V. Edwards (Memphis, Tenn.), Mi Kyung Yun (Collierville, Tenn.), Chitra Subramanian (Cordova, Tenn.), Robert Zamboni (Beaconsfield, Canada) and T. Jagadeeswar Reddy (Pierrefonds, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to chemical compounds that modulate pantothenate kinase (PanK) activity for the tr...