US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Nov. 25 for "Methods of treatment of kidney injury associated with infection or trauma" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,594, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Methods of treatment of kidney injury associated with infection or trauma" was invented by John A. Kellum (Pittsburgh), Neil Hukriede (Allison Park, Pa.) and Xiaoyan Wen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of treating kidney injury associated with trauma or infection, such as in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in a patient including administering to the patient an amount of a histone deacetylase inhibitor effective to treat kidney injury associated with trauma or infec...