US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on March 3 for "PKC pathway in Parkinson's Disease" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,568, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"PKC pathway in Parkinson's Disease" was invented by Alexander Laperle (North Hollywood, Calif.), Samuel Sances (Santa Monica, Calif.), Nur Yucer (Los Angeles) and Clive N. Svendsen (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) technology enables the generation and study of living brain tissue relevant to Parkinson's disease (PD) ex vivo. Utilizing cell lines from PD patients presents a powerful discovery system that links cellular phenotypes observed in vitro with real clinical data. Differentiating pat...