US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Jan. 20 for "Modular dendron micelles for treatment of pulmonary diseases related to fibrosis and viral infection including COVID-19" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,741, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Modular dendron micelles for treatment of pulmonary diseases related to fibrosis and viral infection including COVID-19" was invented by Seungpyo Hong (Madison, Wis.), Allan Brasier (Madison, Wis.) and Weiping Tang (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-assembled therapeutic dendron-micelle includes a first amphiphilic dendron-coil, a second amphiphilic dendron-coil, and optionally a third amphiphilic dendron-coil, and an encapsulated BRD4 ligand or BRD4 proteolysis targeting chimera. The first and optional third amphiphilic...