US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 22 for "Compositions and methods for treating cancer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,693, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for treating cancer" was invented by Jonathan Ostrem (San Francisco), Ulf Peters (San Francisco) and Kevan M. Shokat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "K-Ras is the most frequently mutated oncogene in human cancer. Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for modulating K-Ras and treating cancer."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2024, under Application No. 18/956,941.

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