US Patent Issued to Juno Therapeutics on Feb. 17 for "Serum-free media formulation for culturing cells and methods of use thereof" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,024, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Juno Therapeutics Inc. (Seattle).

"Serum-free media formulation for culturing cells and methods of use thereof" was invented by Pascal Beauchesne (Seattle), Kien Khuu-Duong (Seattle), Ivie Aifuwa (Seattle) and Calvin Chan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a serum-free media for culturing, such as cultivating, preparing and/or producing cells, such as immune cells, such as genetically engineered cells. Also provided is a liquid basal media and frozen supplements that can be used to produce serum-free media. The provided embodiments include methods for producing serum-fre...