US Patent Issued to The Jackson Laboratory on July 15 for "Methods for promoting wound healing and hair growth comprising GDNF administration" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,674, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine).

"Methods for promoting wound healing and hair growth comprising GDNF administration" was invented by Robert E. Braun (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Manju Sharma (Bar Harbor, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to uses of glial cell line-derived growth factor (GDNF) in cutaneous wound healing and hair growth. Methods of effecting hair growth and/or wound healing which feature administration of GDNF, or a biologically active fragment thereof, to subjects, e.g., human subject, are disclosed herein. The invention relates ...