US Patent Issued to CITY OF HOPE on Jan. 20 for "Methods, compositions, and kits for improving pancreatic beta cell viability and treating diseases or conditions related to beta cell destruction" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,822, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Methods, compositions, and kits for improving pancreatic beta cell viability and treating diseases or conditions related to beta cell destruction" was invented by Sanjay Awasthi (Lubbock, Texas), Sushma Yadav (Duarte, Calif.), Ismail Al Abdullah (Duarte, Calif.), Fouad Kandeel (Duarte, Calif.), Brian Mcfadden (Duarte, Calif.), Indu Nair (Duarte, Calif.) and Sharad S. Singhal (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides novel methods for increasing Beta-cell viability in islets by delivering RLIP76 polypeptides or GSTA4 polypeptid...