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U.S. awards patent for peptide homologs to inhibit antigen presentation

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 21st, 2005

Generex Biotechnology Corporation (GNBT) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Antigen Express has received United States Patent US 6,835,382 B2 as of December 28, 2004.

This award continues the divisional prosecution of an original application filed March 3, 1999. The specific award covers the use of Ii-Key peptide homologs to inhibit antigen presentation. It bears on potential treatments of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes mellitus.

Dr. Robert Humphreys, the chief scientific officer of Antigen Express has spent his lifetime understanding how antigenic peptides are presented to the immune system...

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