US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA on Jan. 13 for "Therapeutic approach to lung disease" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,389, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.), VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.) and THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia).

"Therapeutic approach to lung disease" was invented by Xin Sun (La Jolla, Calif.), Jinhao Xu (La Jolla, Calif.) and Lisa Young (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel animal model of NEHI, and method of preventing and/or treating a pulmonary disease, particularly the lung-based complications in NEHI, such as pulmonary edema, by targeting the PNEC product, such as the CGRP signaling. Also d...