US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 27 for "Materials and methods for assessing cancer risk and treating cancer" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,485, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Materials and methods for assessing cancer risk and treating cancer" was invented by Ami A. Shah (Ellicott City, Md.), Livia Casciola-Rosen (Pikesville, Md.), Antony Rosen (Pikesville, Md.), Takeru Igusa (Baltimore) and Marikki K. Laiho (Kauniainen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to materials and methods for assessing and/or treating subjects (e.g., subjects having autoimmune diseases). For example, materials and methods for determining if a subject (e.g., a human having an autoimmune disease) has one or more antibodies th...