US Patent Issued to Cyclica on March 17 for "Method and system for differential drug discovery" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,041, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cyclica Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and system for differential drug discovery" was invented by Stephen Scott Mackinnon (Burlington, Canada), Vijay Shahani (Mississauga, Canada), Andreas Windemuth (Belmont, Mass.), Leonard Morayniss (Toronto), Andrew Brereton (Toronto) and Naheed Kurji (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for differential drug discovery involves obtaining a receptor panel which specifies a multitude of targets and a multitude of anti-targets. The method further involves obtaining a small molecule compound (SMC) seed model and derivatizing a first multitude of candidat...