US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Feb. 24 for "Compositions and methods for treating breast cancer" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,801, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Seattle).

"Compositions and methods for treating breast cancer" was invented by Yuping Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Marcin Cieslik (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Christopher I. Li (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, provided herein are methods of treating basal-like breast cancer based on expression levels of a panel of c...