US Patent Issued to The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust on Sept. 23 for "Materials and methods for stratifying and treating cancers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,556, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital (London) and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (London).

"Materials and methods for stratifying and treating cancers" was invented by Alex Lee (London), Paul Huang (London), Maggie Cheang (London) and Robin Jones (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods for stratifying and treating cancers and to methods of identifying/selecting patients for treatment of cancer with tyrosine kinase inhibitors are disclosed. Gene expression profiles, TP53 mutations and FGFR1 and PDGFRA expression used to identify/select/stratify t...