US Patent Issued to PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Method for prognosis prediction of skin cancer and use thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,337, issued on March 17, was assigned to PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY (Nagoya, Japan).

"Method for prognosis prediction of skin cancer and use thereof" was invented by Motoki Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique of predicting prognosis of skin cancer. A method for prognosis prediction of skin cancer includes: a step of obtaining a correlation amount correlated with an expression level of a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in a sample collected from a patient with the skin cancer; and a step of determining that the prognosis of the skin cancer is poorer when the corre...