Arrowhead Research Corporation Receives Patent Allowance for DPC siRNA Delivery System With Peptide Backbone

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PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ARWR), a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent Application Number 13/326,433 entitled, “Peptide-Based In Vivo siRNA Delivery System.” The allowed claims specifically protect the use of targeted melittin or melittin-like peptides to facilitate delivery of siRNA conjugates to hepatocytes. This new patent protection covers the composition of the Dynamic Polyconjugate, or DPC, delivery system used in Arrowhead's RNAi-based drug candidate, ARC-520, against chronic hepatitis B virus infection.

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