US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY on March 3 for "Treatment of gulf war illness" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,620, issued on March 3, was assigned to VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (Richmond, Va.).

"Treatment of gulf war illness" was invented by Kirsty J. Dixon (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating Gulf War Illness (GWI) involves administering a therapeutically effective amount of a dominant negative tumor necrosis factor (DN-TNF) protein variant to a subject in need thereof. The DN-TNF variant is one that is modified with one to seven specific amino acid substitutions relative to the amino acid sequence of wtTNF and demonstrates a mechanism of selectively inhibiting soluble TNF (solTNF) without affecting tran...