US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 4 for "Methods for treating macrophage-mediated diseases, and methods of identifying agents useful therefore" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,659, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods for treating macrophage-mediated diseases, and methods of identifying agents useful therefore" was invented by Michael Karin (La Jolla, Calif.) and Elsa Sanchez-Lopez (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of treating macrophage-mediated inflammatory diseases and disorders. Also, disclosed are methods for screening for agents useful in such methods."

The patent was filed on Feb. 4, 2020, under Application No. 17/428,544.

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