US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Bio Ventures on Dec. 16 for "Compositions and methods for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer" (Arkansas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,302, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Bio Ventures LLC (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Compositions and methods for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer" was invented by Hong-yu Li (Little Rock, Ark.), Wei Yan (Little Rock, Ark.) and Li Lan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are RNA methyltransferase inhibitors and methods of using and making the same. The inhibitors may be used in a method for the treatment of a subject in need of a treatment for a cancer by administering an effective amount of the RNA methyltransferase inhibitor and an effective amount of a DNA damaging agent to...