US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 21 for "Compositions and methods for detecting pancreatic cancer" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,654, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Compositions and methods for detecting pancreatic cancer" was invented by Jin Song (Baltimore), Zhen Zhang (Baltimore) and Daniel Wan-Yui Chan (Clarksville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of detecting pancreatic cancer in a subject, the method comprising measuring in a sample from the subject a level of CA19-9 polysaccharide relative to a reference, and a level of a polynucleotide or polypeptide of at least one marker selected from the group consisting of: OPN, MIA, CEACAM-1, MIC-I, SPONI, HSP27, POSTN, and LGALS3BP rela...