US Patent Issued to STEALTH BIOTHERAPEUTICS on June 24 for "Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of disease" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,023, issued on June 24, was assigned to STEALTH BIOTHERAPEUTICS INC. (Needham, Mass.).

"Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of disease" was invented by D. Travis Wilson (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to compositions and methods for preventing, ameliorating, or reducing the severity of one or more signs, or symptoms associated with a reduction of function, decreased expression level of, and/or deficiency in one or more of COL4A3, COL4A4 and COL4A5 genes. Also disclosed herein are methods of preventing or treating Alport Syndrome in a mammalian subject, reducing ri...