US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University on June 16 for "Ketogenic diet and ketone supplementation for cancer therapy" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,836, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"Ketogenic diet and ketone supplementation for cancer therapy" was invented by Joshua D. Rabinowitz (Princeton, N.J.) and Lifeng Yang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for treating cancer, particularly gastrointestinal cancers, such as pancreatic cancer and colon cancer, with chemotherapeutic agent(s) in subjects on a ketogenic diet or a ketone supplement or both."

The patent was filed on July 15, 2021, under Application No. 18/003,753.

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