US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on April 21 for "Small molecule inhibitors of calcium channel activity and uses thereof" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,546, issued on April 21, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Small molecule inhibitors of calcium channel activity and uses thereof" was invented by Jun Wang (Tucson, Ariz.) and Rajesh Khanna (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is in the field of medicinal chemistry. In particular, the invention relates to anew class of small-molecules having a piperazine or piperidine structure which function as either inhibitors of pan-T-type calcium channel activity (e.g., CaV3.1 voltage gated calcium channel activity) (e.g., CaV3.2 voltage gated calcium channe...