ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,451, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).
"Small molecule modulators of PanK" was invented by Rajendra P. Tangallapally (Collierville, Tenn.), Richard E. Lee (Cordova, Tenn.), Anne V. Edwards (Memphis, Tenn.), Charles O. Rock (Bartlett, Tenn.), Suzanne Jackowski (Bartlett, Tenn.), Mi Kyung Yun (Collierville, Tenn.) and Chitra Subramanian (Cordova, Tenn.).
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 treatment of metabolic disorders (such as diabetes mellitus type II), neurologic dis...