US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on April 29 for "HER3 peptides for imaging and radiotherapy" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,502, issued on April 29, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"HER3 peptides for imaging and radiotherapy" was invented by Umar Mahmood (Winchester, Mass.) and Benjamin Larimer (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions of Formula I useful for imaging HER3. The structure of Formula I is A-B-C, where A is an imaging agent, B is a linking group or a covalent bond, and C is a polypeptide comprising from about 9 to about 75 amino acids and contains a disulfide bond between two cysteine groups. An exemplary composition provided herein is useful as a radiotracer for position emission tomog...