US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on Sept. 16 for "Treatment of cancer using organoarsenicals" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,931, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Treatment of cancer using organoarsenicals" was invented by Barry P. Rosen (Boynton Beach, Fla.), Kunie Yoshinaga-Sakurai (Miami) and Venkadesh Sarkarai Nadar (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention provides organoarsenicals or salts thereof, compositions comprising an organoarsenical or a salt thereof, and methods of using the organoarsenicals or salts thereof, or compositions for inhibiting glutaminase and for treating cancers. Specifically, the subject invention provides methods of inhibiting glutaminase (...