US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on March 4 for "Turbinmicin compounds, compositions and uses thereof" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,859, issued on March 4, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Turbinmicin compounds, compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Timothy Bugni (Madison, Wis.), Fan Zhang (Madison, Wis.), Douglas R. Braun (Mount Horeb, Wis.), David Andes (Verona, Wis.) and Miao Zhao (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Turbinmicin, an isolated compound of Formula (I) or IA is provided. Turbinomycin compounds of Formula (II) or (IIA) are also provided. A compound isolated from a bacterial species from the sea squirt, Ecteinascidia turbinate, and having a chemical formula of C34H29NO11 is also provided. Compo...