US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on June 2 for "Cardiac-specific targeting-peptide (CTP), compositions, and uses thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,924, issued on June 2, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Cardiac-specific targeting-peptide (CTP), compositions, and uses thereof" was invented by Maliha Zahid (Gibsonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a synthetic, non-naturally occurring 12-amino acid peptide, Cardiac Targeting Peptide, belonging to the larger class of cell penetrating peptides, for delivery of both diagnostic and potentially therapeutic agents to the heart. Also disclosed are subsequent generations of this Cardiac Targeting Peptide with improved, higher efficiency of cardiac uptake...