US Patent Issued to TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL on June 10 for "Method and pharmaceutical composition for rescuing retinal degeneration" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,813, issued on June 10, was assigned to TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and pharmaceutical composition for rescuing retinal degeneration" was invented by Shih-Hwa Chiou (Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Jie Chou (Taipei, Taiwan), Yueh Chien (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Ping Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for rescuing retinal degeneration comprising administering a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising an inhibitor of DUSP6 via ERK 1/2 autophagy pathway."

The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/096,227.

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