Patents by Inventor Hong Kyung YANG

Hong Kyung YANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Composition containing salsolinol for treating liver cancer
    Patent number: 11628164
    Abstract: Salsolinol is a metabolite of alcohol and is cytotoxic, so that the salsolinol has been studied as a diagnostic biomarker for a liver disease and a liver cancer, but the salsolinol has not been reported as a therapeutic agent for the liver disease or the liver cancer. Since the salsolinol regulates tumor-related genes and inflammation-related genes specifically for men, it is experimentally found that the salsolinol has an effect of alleviating a liver cancer and an alcoholic hepatitis. Therefore, the salsolinol is contained together with a pharmaceutically acceptable salt as an effective ingredient and is provided as a pharmaceutical composition for treating the liver cancer or a health functional food for preventing and improving the alcoholic liver disease to have an effect of treating the liver disease and the liver cancer or preventing and improving the liver disease and the liver cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sungshin Women's University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Hye Kyung Na, Hong Kyung Yang, Hyun Jung Choi
  • Composition Containing The Salsolinol For Treating Liver Cancer
    Publication number: 20220110930
    Abstract: Salsolinol is a metabolite of alcohol and is cytotoxic, so that the salsolinol has been studied as a diagnostic biomarker for a liver disease and a liver cancer, but the salsolinol has not been reported as a therapeutic agent for the liver disease or the liver cancer. Since the salsolinol regulates tumor-related genes and inflammation-related genes specifically for men, it is experimentally found that the salsolinol has an effect of alleviating a liver cancer and an alcoholic hepatitis. Therefore, the salsolinol is contained together with a pharmaceutically acceptable salt as an effective ingredient and is provided as a pharmaceutical composition for treating the liver cancer or a health functional food for preventing and improving the alcoholic liver disease to have an effect of treating the liver disease and the liver cancer or preventing and improving the liver disease and the liver cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hye Kyung NA, Hong Kyung YANG, Hyun Jung CHOI