US Patent Issued to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology on Aug. 12 for "Methods and compositions for treating cancer" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,826, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Methods and compositions for treating cancer" was invented by Alfredo Perales-Puchalt (Philadelphia) and Jose R. Conejo-Garcia (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nucleic acid sequence is provided that encodes a chimeric protein comprising a ligand that comprises a naturally occurring or modified follicle stimulating hormone sequence, e.g., an FSHBeta sequence, or fragment thereof, which ligand binds to human follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor, linked to either (a) a nucleic acid sequence that encodes an extracellu...