US Patent Issued to SIRNAOMICS on July 21 for "Oligonucleotides with nucleoside analogs" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,775, issued on July 21, was assigned to SIRNAOMICS INC. (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Oligonucleotides with nucleoside analogs" was invented by David M. Evans (Gaithersburg, Md.), Patrick Y. Lu (Gaithersburg, Md.), Xiaoyong Lu (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Eric Roesch (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "siRNA compositions are provided that contain gemcitabine (GEM) in place of cytosine moieties within the siRNA sequence. Pharmaceuticals compositions containing these siRNA molecules, and methods of using the compositions for treating diseases such as cancer are provided."

The patent was filed on April 4, 2022, under Application No. 1...