US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on May 12 for "Materials and methods for treating cancer" (Colorado, Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,086, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Materials and methods for treating cancer" was invented by Cameron Durrant (Oxford, Fla.), Dale Chappell (Dolores, Colo.), Saad J. Kenderian (Rochester, Minn.), Rosalie M. Sterner (Claremont, Minn.), Michelle J. Cox (Rochester, Minn.) and Reona Sakemura (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provides methods and materials involved in treating cancer. For example, chimeric antigen receptor T cells having reduced levels of GM-CSF are provided. Also provided as methods for making and using chimeric antige...