US Patent Issued to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology on Dec. 2 for "Methods and compositions for treating cancer" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,102, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Methods and compositions for treating cancer" was invented by Hildegund C. J. Ertl (Villanova, Pa.), Joseph M. Salvino (Chester Springs, Pa.) and Valli V. S. Yellamelli (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating cancer are disclosed which comprise administering to a subject T cells which have been pretreated ex vivo or in vitro with fenofibric acid (FFA), an FFA prodrug, or a derivative thereof that has PPAR-Alpha agonist activity. These compounds promote the use of fatty acid catabolism rather than glucose for en...