Patent Issued to TTUHSC Researchers for Early Detectable Blood-Based Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease

A United States patent was recently awarded to P. Hemachandra Reddy, Ph.D., and Subodh Kumar, Ph.D., from the Department of Internal Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

The patent, “MicroRNA-455-3p as a Peripheral Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease,” focuses on the development of a novel blood-based biomarker for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.