US Patent Issued to University of South Florida, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) on Feb. 25 for "Antarctic tunicate Synoicum species-derived alkaloids and methods of treatment" (Austrian, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,064, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.) and Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) (Oslo, Norway).

"Antarctic tunicate Synoicum species-derived alkaloids and methods of treatment" was invented by Bill J. Baker (Tampa, Fla.), Laurent J. Calcul (Tampa, Fla.), Kim Pham (Davie, Fla.), Sofia Kokkaliari (Tampa, Fla.), Alexander Dettmar Crawford (Oslo, Norway) and Nargess Shahbazi (Innsbruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pharmaceutical compositions containing one of five novel alkaloids isolated from a deep water Antarctic tunicate and methods of uses thereof are presented. The alkal...