US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on March 17 for "Ferritin nanocage for multi-displaying trail trimer and cancer-targeting peptide and use thereof as anticancer agent" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,292, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Ferritin nanocage for multi-displaying trail trimer and cancer-targeting peptide and use thereof as anticancer agent" was invented by Soyoun Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Jae Do Yoo (Daegu, South Korea), Byung-Heon Lee (Daegu, South Korea), In Seon Jeon (Suncheon-si, South Korea) and In-San Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion nanoprotein is provided wherein TRAIL with a trimer structure is conjugated to a human ferritin monomer fragment and exhibits enhanced cancer targeting u...