US Patent Issued to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE on July 14 for "Inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein antagonists" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,509, issued on July 14, was assigned to SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein antagonists" was invented by Nicholas David Peter Cosford (San Diego), Dominik Heimann (Hamm, Germany), Peter Teriete (San Diego), Sumit Kumar Chanda (La Jolla, Calif.), Lars Pache (San Diego) and Nicole Bata (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compounds that modulate the activity of inhibitor of apoptosis (IAPs) proteins, compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions comprising the compounds."

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