US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on June 23 for "Methods for the delivery of therapeutic agents to donor organs" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,381, issued on June 23, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Methods for the delivery of therapeutic agents to donor organs" was invented by Muath Bishawi (Durham, N.C.), Carmelo Milano (Durham, N.C.) and Dawn Bowles (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of administering therapeutic agents to a donor organ prior to transplant comprising circulating the therapeutic agent through the donor organ while maintaining the donor organ under ex vivo perfusion conditions, as well as methods of transplanting organs, biologically modifying a donor organ prior to transplant, and treating...