US Patent Issued to THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH on July 8 for "Interferon regulatory factor 5 inhibitors and uses thereof" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,610, issued on July 8, was assigned to THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Manhasset, N.Y.).

"Interferon regulatory factor 5 inhibitors and uses thereof" was invented by Betsy J. Barnes (Glenwood Landing, N.Y.) and Shan Sun (Wingdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polypeptides comprising a cell penetrating amino acid sequence and an interferon regulatory factor 5 (IRF5) targeting amino acid sequence are disclosed, where the IRF5 targeting amino acid sequence is one or more of RHATRHG (SEQ ID NO:1), KSRDFRL (SEQ ID NO:2) and GPRDMPP (SEQ ID NO:3), as well as methods of using these polypeptides to treat diseases, such a...