US Patent Issued to Heidelberg Pharma Research on April 7 for "Amatoxin antibody-drug conjugates and uses thereof" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,284, issued on April 7, was assigned to Heidelberg Pharma Research GmbH (Ladenburg, Germany).

"Amatoxin antibody-drug conjugates and uses thereof" was invented by Charlotte Fenton McDonagh (Winchester, Mass.), Rajiv Panwar (Acton, Mass.), Torsten Hechler (Ladenburg, Germany), Michael Kulke (Ladenburg, Germany), Ganapathy N. Sarma (San Ramon, Calif.), Andreas Pahl (Ladenburg, Germany), Christoph Mueller (Ladenburg, Germany), Werner Simon (Ladenburg, Germany), Christian Lutz (Ladenburg, Germany) and Francesca Gallo (Ladenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Amatoxins, as well as antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising an ama...