US Patent Issued to Cornell University on March 17 for "Methods of functional vascularization of pancreatic islets and beta-cell organoids" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,114, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Methods of functional vascularization of pancreatic islets and beta-cell organoids" was invented by Shahin Rafii (New York), Brisa Palikuqi (San Francisco), Ge Li (Syosset, N.Y.) and Sina Rabbany (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure is directed to a method for vascularizing a pancreatic islet comprising culturing the pancreatic islet or Beta-cells with an endothelial cell comprising an exogenous nucleic acid encoding an ETV2 transcription factor under conditions wherein the endothelial cell expresses the ETV2 transcription...