ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,042, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC. (Boston).

"ERK5 degraders and uses thereof" was invented by Inchul You (Boston), Eric Wang (Brookline, Mass.) and Nathanael S. Gray (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are the bifunctional compounds, compositions and methods of treating a disease or disorder characterized by aberrant extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 5 (ERK5) activity."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2022, under Application No. 18/691,268.

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