US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Long lived T cells for treating HIV infection" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,318, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Long lived T cells for treating HIV infection" was invented by Rafick-Pierre Sekaly (Cleveland), Ashish Sharma (Cleveland) and Joumana Zeidan (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating an HIV infected subject includes administering the subject an enriched CCR5 and/or CXCR4 gene edited CD4+ T cell population characterized by intermediate cells surface co-expression of CD45A and CD450 (RAintROint)."

The patent was filed on July 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/627,947.

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