US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 15 for "Compositions and methods for increasing epithelial barrier function" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,214, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for increasing epithelial barrier function" was invented by Thomas Cherpes (Stanford, Calif.), Rodolfo Vicetti Miguel (Stanford, Calif.) and Nirk Quispe Calla (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, inter alia, are compositions for the modulation of epithelium function, the compositions comprising EphrinA3 protein or EphrinA2 protein, fusions thereof, fragments thereof, or oligonucleotides encoding the same. Also provided are methods for modulating epithelium ...