Drugs under development by DiaKine Therapeutics to potentially cure diabetes and reverse its complications have been granted a U.S. patent, the company announced at the 26th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. Patent number 7,247,630 covers novel tricyclic compounds that regulate cytokines. Cytokines may mistakenly attack normal organs and tissue and cause diseases such as diabetes and related complications such as kidney and eye disease.
Proteologics Inc. today announced that it has been granted United States Patent No. 7,268,227 relating to its leading antiviral program. This patent broadly covers siRNA molecules that can inhibit, or "silence" the expression of Proteologics' antiviral drug target, hPOSH - a human protein that was characterized by Proteologics as a ubiquitin ligase essential for HIV biogenesis. Proteologics has anti-viral drug discovery programs based on proprietary research of host-protein ubiquitin-ligase drug targets shown to be essential for the HIV life cycle.
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