US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on March 25 for "Compositions and methods to promote bone formation and their uses including for the treatment of cancer" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,561, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Compositions and methods to promote bone formation and their uses including for the treatment of cancer" was invented by Nikhil A. Thakur (East Syracuse, N.Y.) and Bryan S. Margulies (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods for promoting bone formation or reducing bone destruction. This disclosure also relates to methods for promoting the recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to a local site of injury or surgical intervention in bone to promote healing. In addition, thi...