US Patent Issued to Virginia Commonwealth University on June 10 for "MDA-7/IL-24 secretory variants and methods of use" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,863, issued on June 10, was assigned to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va.).

"MDA-7/IL-24 secretory variants and methods of use" was invented by Paul B. Fisher (Henrico, Va.), Mitchell E. Menezes (Richmond, Va.), Praveen Bhoopathi (Richmond, Va.), Swadesh K Das (Richmond, Va.), Luni Emdad (Richmond, Va.), Devanand Sarkar (Richmond, Va.), Anjan K. Pradhan (Richmond, Va.) and Xiang-Yang Wang (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, the present disclosure provides polynucleotides encoding a fusion protein, as well as vectors, cells, and compositions comprising the same. In embodiments, the fusion pr...