US Patent Issued to RIKEN, KEIO UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Pharmaceutical composition for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of skin disease" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,680, issued on March 24, was assigned to RIKEN (Tokyo) and KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Pharmaceutical composition for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of skin disease" was invented by Yoshihiro Ito (Wako, Japan), Kenya Honda (Wako, Japan), Masayuki Amagai (Tokyo) and Eiryo Kawakami (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, the influence by flora of the skin on dermatitis is examined by analyzing Tmem79-knockout model mice, and a bacterium having a suppressive effect on dermatitis is identified, and the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition derived from such a bacterium, containing ...