US Patent Issued to Hadasit Medical Research Services and Development on June 23 for "Methods of generating oligodendrocytes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,329, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hadasit Medical Research Services and Development Ltd. (Jerusalem).

"Methods of generating oligodendrocytes" was invented by Benjamin Eithan Reubinoff (Moshav Bar-Giora, Israel) and Etti Ben-Shushan (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating human mature oligodendrocytes is disclosed. The method comprises contacting a cell population which comprises human pre-oligodendrocytes with an inhibitor of the MAPK/ERK pathway under conditions that allow the pre-oligodendrocytes to differentiate into mature oligodendrocytes. Use of the MAPK/ERK pathway inhibitor for treating disease...