US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on April 21 for "Methods for drug screening and compositions useful for the inhibition of cell proliferation and/or cell survival" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,374, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Methods for drug screening and compositions useful for the inhibition of cell proliferation and/or cell survival" was invented by Gabriel Musso (Boston) and Calum A. Macrae (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of drug discovery and therapeutics, including systems and methods to predict drug function, to classify or prioritize drugs based on predicted function, and to test known and novel compounds for function in a vertebrate system. The present disclosure also relates to compounds identified using ...