US Patent Issued to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on June 3 for "Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss" (Nebraska, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,391, issued on June 3, was assigned to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc..

"Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss" was invented by Jian Zuo (Omaha, Neb.), Tal Teitz (Omaha, Neb.), Fang Jie (Memphis, Tenn.), Goktug Asli (Memphis, Tenn.), Chen Taosheng (Germantown, Tenn.), Min Jaeki (Memphis, Tenn.) and R Kiplin Guy (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a CDK2 inhibitor and one or more of at least one agent known to treat a hearing impairment and at least one agent known to prevent a hearing impairment, and methods of treating and/...