US Patent Issued to USWM, THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on March 24 for "Methods for treating neuroblastoma" (Arizona, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,625, issued on March 24, was assigned to USWM LLC (Louisville, Ky.) and THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Methods for treating neuroblastoma" was invented by Eugene Gerner (Tucson, Ariz.), Elizabeth Bruckheimer (Tucson, Ariz.) and Giselle Saulnier Sholler (Hershey, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and kits a) for preventing and/or treating neuroblastoma (e.g., high-risk neuroblastoma) that is linked, in part, to high levels of ODC activity and increased cellular polyamine content, b) for predicting cancer patient survival, especially cancer ...