US Patent Issued to Vertex Pharmaceuticals on June 2 for "Materials and methods for treatment of hemoglobinopathies" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,137, issued on June 2, was assigned to Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston).

"Materials and methods for treatment of hemoglobinopathies" was invented by Tirtha Chakraborty (Cambridge, Mass.), Bibhu Prasad Mishra (Cambridge, Mass.), Chad Albert Cowan (Cambridge, Mass.), Ante Sven Lundberg (Cambridge, Mass.), Samarth Kulkarni (Cambridge, Mass.) and Todd Douglass Borland (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are materials and methods for treating patients with hemoglobinopathies, either ex vivo or in vivo. Also provided are materials and methods for deleting and/or mutating a portion of a human beta globin locus on ch...