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AxyS Pharmaceuticals Gains US Patents on Two Genes Linked to Disease

Dec 21, 1998
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--AxyS Pharmaceuticals here last month received US patents on two proprietary genes, TULP 1 and TULP 2, that have been linked to two disease states. The disease linkages and details of some of the properties of TULP 1 are being published in the current issue of Nature Genetics, according to John Walker, AxyS's chairman and CEO. He declined further comment on the patents pending publication of the article.

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