US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Generation of kidney glomerular specific endothelial cells and methods of use" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,823, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Generation of kidney glomerular specific endothelial cells and methods of use" was invented by Shahin Rafii (Great Neck, N.Y.), David M. Barry (Ithaca, N.Y.), Sina Rabbany (Great Neck, N.Y.), Balvir Kunar (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Raphael Lis (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to method of generating human glomeruli endothelial cells (HGECs) from human endothelial cells (ECs), comprising expressing in human ECs an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a T-box transcription factor 3 (Tbx3), alone or in combination with one or mo...