US Patent Issued to The Wister Institute of Anatomy and Biology on March 24 for "Methods and compositions for treating cancer" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,626, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Wister Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Methods and compositions for treating cancer" was invented by Hildegund C.J. Ertl (Villanova, Pa.) and Ying Zhang (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating cancer are disclosed which comprise administering to a subject T cells which have been pretreated ex vivo or in vitro with a fatty acid catabolism promoter to condition the T cell to use fatty acids rather than glucose for energy production. Still other methods comprise co-administering to a subject having a cancer characterized by a solid tumor (a) an immunothe...