Patent ID: 9255139
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A61K,A61P,C07K

Claim Text:
1. A method of treating a skin lesion to prevent or inhibit the formation of a scar, the method comprising administering to a site of a skin lesion or scar caused by surgery, burn, injection, bite, vaccination, trauma, or infection a pharmaceutical composition comprising a fusion construct comprising an amino acid sequence of a tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP) or a functionally active portion thereof which retains the activity of TIMP, wherein the functionally active portion comprises a TIMP molecule truncated to the first 50 to 152 N-terminal amino acid residues, and wherein said TIMP or functionally active portion thereof is linked to a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor.