US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 30 for "Treatment for tau-related diseases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,155, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Treatment for tau-related diseases" was invented by Lawrence Goldstein (La Jolla, Calif.), Rik Van Der Kant (La Jolla, Calif.), Robert Rissman (La Jolla, Calif.) and Vanessa Langness (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, with low dosage efavirenz and derivatives."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/086,913.

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