US Patent Issued to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on Sept. 23 for "Peptide, a complex and a method for treating cancer" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,510, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Peptide, a complex and a method for treating cancer" was invented by Aaron Ciechanover (Caesarea, Israel), Yelena Kravtsova (Haifa, Israel) and Gilad Goldhirsh (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peptide comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in WILVRLW (SEQ ID NO: 1), or any functionally related variant thereof, a complex, conjugate or chimera comprising the same, wherein the peptide is linked with or without a linker to RING or to a molecule or peptide that recruits E3 ligase and method for treating canc...