ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,232, issued on April 7, was assigned to BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul) and ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"DRG-MDM2-1 for use as a novel Mouse Double Minute 2 (MDM2) inhibitor" was invented by Timucin Avsar (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Serdar Durdagi (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Muge Didem Orhan (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Maide Nur Paksoy (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey), Gulsah Aydin (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey) and Mine Yurtsever (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compound shown with formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof for use as a novel inhibitor...