US Patent Issued to The University of Toledo on Dec. 2 for "Materials and methods useful to induce cancer cell death via methuosis or autophagy or a combination thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,114, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio).

"Materials and methods useful to induce cancer cell death via methuosis or autophagy or a combination thereof" was invented by Amit K. Tiwari (Toledo, Ohio), Chandrabose Karthikeyan (Toledo, Ohio), Haneen A. Amawi (Toledo, Ohio), Paul W. Erhardt (Toledo, Ohio) and Piyush Trivedi (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds, compositions, and methods useful for inducing cancer cell death via methuosis, autophagy, or a combination thereof, are described. The compounds have a 4-pyridyl group linked by a heterocyclic group to an aryl, heteroaryl, ara...