US Patent Issued to NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Aug. 18 for "Horizontal fluid flow bioreactor for cancer research" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,726, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, N.D.).

"Horizontal fluid flow bioreactor for cancer research" was invented by Dinesh Ramanath Katti (Fargo, N.D.), Kalpana S. Katti (Fargo, N.D.) and Haneesh Jasuja (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontal flow bioreactor facilitates continuous flow conditions to cells grown on a tissue engineered scaffold. More particularly, interstitial fluid flow conditions are mimicked around cells inside the body, thereby improving the mass transfer rates of cells and providing physical stimulus to the cells. Unlike the available perfusion based vertical bio...