US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud A.C. on March 24 for "Vanadium compositions and methods for treatment of cancer" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,672, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. (Boston) and Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud A.C. (Mexico City).

"Vanadium compositions and methods for treatment of cancer" was invented by Steven Corsello (Boston), Ryan Spangler (Cambridge, Mass.), Rohith Nagari (Cambridge, Mass.) and Todd Golub (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment or prevention of cancers, particularly cancers that exhibit elevated expression of SLC26A2, such as certain ovarian, endometrial,...