US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Feb. 25 for "Compositions and methods for promoting islet viability and enhancing insulin secretion" (Virginia, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,108, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Compositions and methods for promoting islet viability and enhancing insulin secretion" was invented by Gordon W. Laurie (Charlottesville, Va.), Kenneth Brayman (Charlottesville, Va.), Preeti Chhabra (Waynesboro, Va.), Mingyang Ma (Charlottesville, Va.), Karina Teixeira (Charlottesville, Va.) and Thomas R. Gadek (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for regenerating pancreatic islet viability and/or cell proliferation in vitro, ex vivo, and/or in vivo; and/or for regenerating glucose-stimulated ...