US Patent Issued on April 7 for "Methods and compositions for treatment of pancreatic cancer" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,324, issued on April 7.

"Methods and compositions for treatment of pancreatic cancer" was invented by Vinod Balachandran (New York), Taha Merghoub (Jersey City, N.J.) and John Alec Moral (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides various compositions and methods useful for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, such as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), and methods for activating pancreatic tissue-specific anti-tumor T cell immunity. In some embodiments such methods involve administration of IL33. In some embodiments such methods involve administration of a PD-1 and/or PD-L1 inhibitor."

The patent wa...