US Patent Issued to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY(DGIST) on July 21 for "Treatment of nerve damage using 5'UTR of Gpr151 gene or variant thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,786, issued on July 21, was assigned to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY(DGIST) (Daegu, South Korea).

"Treatment of nerve damage using 5'UTR of Gpr151 gene or variant thereof" was invented by Yongcheol Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Eun Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jinyoung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Bohm Lee (Seocho-gu, South Korea) and Yewon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a composition for treating a neurological disease caused by nerve injury, including an isolated polynucleotide of a 5'-untranslated region (5'UTR) of a Gpr151 gene or a variant thereof. Also disclosed are a nov...