US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Dec. 16 for "Gene replacement therapy for FOXG1 syndrome" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,612, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Gene replacement therapy for FOXG1 syndrome" was invented by Dan Wang (Worcester, Mass.), Guangping Gao (Worcester, Mass.) and Ailing Du (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects the disclosure provides compositions and methods for promoting expression of functional Forkhead box G1 (FOXG1) protein in a subject. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of treating a subject having FOXG1 deficiency."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2021, under Application No. 17/910,574.

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