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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2018
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Barbara B. Kahn, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mark A. Herman, Needham, MA (US);
Alan Saghatelian, La Jolla, CA (US);
Edwin Homan, New York, NY (US);
Mark M. Yore, Boston, MA (US);
Ismail Syed, Revere, MA (US);
Pedro M. M. Moraes Vieira, Brookline, MA (US);
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides, inter alia, fatty acyl hydroxy fatty acid (FAHFA; a novel class of estolide-related molecules) and diagnostic and treatment methods for a variety of disorders—including diabetes-related disorders, Metabolic Syndrome, polycyctic ovarian syndrome, cancer, and inflammatory disorders—using them; as well as methods of screening for additional compounds that are useful in treating these disorders and/or that modulate FAHFA levels, FAHFA-mediated signaling, and FAHFA-mediated biological effects.