US Patent Issued to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Feb. 17 for "Small molecule modulators of pantothenate kinases" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,765, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc..

"Small molecule modulators of pantothenate kinases" was invented by Lalit Kumar Sharma (South San Francisco, Calif.), Richard E. Lee (Cordova, Tenn.), Charles O. Rock (Bartlett, Tenn.), Suzanne Jackowski (Bartlett, Tenn.), Mi Kyung Yun (Collierville, Tenn.), Chitra Subramanian (Cordova, Tenn.) and Jiuyu Liu (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to chemical compounds that modulate pantothenate kinase (PanK) activity for the treatment of metabolic disorders (such as diabetes mellitus type II), neurologic diso...