US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on July 28 for "Methods of treating cancers containing fusion genes" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,547, issued on July 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Methods of treating cancers containing fusion genes" was invented by Jianhua Luo (Wexford, Pa.), Zhanghui Chen (Huzhou, China), Yanping Yu (Wexford, Pa.), George Michalopoulos (Pittsburgh) and Joel B. Nelson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of treating cancer patients carrying one or more specific fusion genes. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that the protein encoded by the MAN2A1-FER fusion gene exhibits kinase activity and the use of tyrosin...