US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Jan. 20 for "Methods and materials for treating cancer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,851, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Methods and materials for treating cancer" was invented by Laura Evgin (Rochester, Minn.), Richard G. Vile (Rochester, Minn.), Timothy J. Kottke (Oronoco, Minn.) and Amanda L. Huff (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to methods and materials for treating a mammal having cancer. For example, compositions (e.g., vaccines) containing cells (e.g., tumor cells) expressing APOBEC3 which can be administered to a mammal (e.g., a human) having cancer to induce an immune response (e.g., an anti-tumo...