US Patent Issued to CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER on April 7 for "Method for treatment of muscular dystrophy" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,278, issued on April 7, was assigned to CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (Washington).

"Method for treatment of muscular dystrophy" was invented by Jyoti Jaiswal (Rockville, Md.) and Marshall Hogarth (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions that inhibit adipogenesis of a fibro/adipogenic precursor (FAP) cell and methods relating to treating, preventing, reducing, and/or inhibiting a muscular degenerative condition a muscular degenerative condition comprising administering said inhibitors."

The patent was filed on July 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/627,203.

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