US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on April 14 for "Multiplex genome editing of immune cells to enhance functionality and resistance to suppressive environment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,944, issued on April 14, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Multiplex genome editing of immune cells to enhance functionality and resistance to suppressive environment" was invented by Rafet Basar (Houston), Elizabeth Shpall (Houston) and Katy Rezvani (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for producing immune cells with disruption of multiple genes. Further provided are methods for inserting a chimeric antigen receptor at a gene locus of an immune cell."

The patent was filed on Nov. 27, 2019, under Application No. 17/309,408.

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