US Patent Issued to THE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER on March 31 for "Method for treating cancer" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,966, issued on March 31, was assigned to THE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER Corp..

"Method for treating cancer" was invented by Alejandro Gutierrez (Brookline, Mass.) and Laura Hinze (Bueckeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and compositions for treating cancer. Aspects of the invention relate to determining if a biological sample obtained from a subject for GSK3Alpha bodies (puncta), e.g., in response to asparaginase treatment, and administering to a subject having cancer an asparaginase and an agent that inhibits GSK3Alpha to a subject who has been identified as forming GSK3Alpha-positive bodies."...