US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on May 26 for "Methods for expansion of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and use thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,511, issued on May 26, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Methods for expansion of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and use thereof" was invented by Marie-Andree Forget (Houston), Chantale Bernatchez (Houston), Cara Haymaker (Houston), Michael A Curran (Houston), Patrick Hwu (Houston) and Cassian Yee (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for the activation and expansion of genetically-modified Tcells, such as tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. In some cases, cells of the embodiments can be used for the therapeutic treatment of human diseases, such as cancer."

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