US Patent Issued to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology on June 23 for "Engineered peptide and peptide mimetic compositions and methods" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,518, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Engineered peptide and peptide mimetic compositions and methods" was invented by Dario Altieri (Philadelphia), Young Chan Chae (Philadelphia) and Jae Ho Seo (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to Mitochondrial Fission Factor (MFF)-derived peptides or peptide mimetics and to methods of making MFF-derived peptides or peptide mimetics. Also provided are methods of treating a disease in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a MFF-derived peptide or ...