US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on June 30 for "Increased packaging efficiency of vector for cardiac gene therapy" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,629, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Increased packaging efficiency of vector for cardiac gene therapy" was invented by Hugh Lee Sweeney (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to compositions and methods useful in treating heart conditions. The disclosed compositions and methods are based on gene therapies comprising a recombinant AAV vector for delivering two or more transgenes into the heart of a subject, wherein the transgenes encode an S100A1 protein and a cardiac Apoptosis Repressor with caspase recruitment Domain...