US Patent Issued to Yeda Research and Development on May 6 for "Anti-matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP-7) inhibitory antibody and uses thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,578, issued on May 6, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Anti-matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP-7) inhibitory antibody and uses thereof" was invented by Irit Sagi (Rehovot, Israel) and Vishnu Mohan (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a disease associated with imbalanced or abnormal activity of MMP-7 is diclosed. The method comprises administration of an antibody comprising an antigen recognition region which binds a catalytic site of MMP-7, having complementarity determining region amino acid sequences as set forth in: SEQ ID NOs: 3, 4 and 5 (CDR3), sequentially a...