US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Sept. 1 for "Kidney targeted delivery of drugs" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,906, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Kidney targeted delivery of drugs" was invented by Reza Abdi (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides, inter alia, compositions comprising drug-containing polymeric particles, wherein each drug-containing polymeric particle is attached to one or more immunoglobulin light chains or a megalin-binding fragment thereof. Methods of preparing and using these drug-containing polymeric particles are also provided."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/030,689.

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