US Patent Issued to The UAB Research Foundation on July 8 for "Immunotherapy for the treatment and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,317, issued on July 8, was assigned to The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Immunotherapy for the treatment and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease" was invented by Charles O. Elson (Birmingham, Ala.), Wayne Duck (Pell City, Ala.), Qing Zhao (Birmingham, Ala.) and Katie Alexander (Homewood, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating and preventing inflammatory bowel disease."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2020, under Application No. 17/426,234.

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