US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on April 15 for "Detection of PAR in the CSF of patients with Parkinson's disease" (Maryland, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,657, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Detection of PAR in the CSF of patients with Parkinson's disease" was invented by Ted Dawson (Baltimore), Valina Dawson (Baltimore), Tae-In Kam (Baltimore), Liana Rosenthal (Lutherville, Md.) and Shaida Andrabi (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) is a protein implicated in numerous neurodegenerative disease states including Parkinson's disease (PD). To date, no routine laboratory test has been developed to diagnosis, assess or monitor patients suffering from PD. Disclosed herein a novel method to assess the PAR conce...