US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 9 for "Enhanced viral transduction of mammalian cells using material scaffolds" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,932, issued on June 9, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Enhanced viral transduction of mammalian cells using material scaffolds" was invented by Yevgeny Brudno (Cary, N.C.), Pritha Agarwalla (Raleigh, N.C.) and Gianpietro Dotti (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods for a low cost, tunable, macroporous, alginate scaffold that transduces T cells with vectors under static condition."

The patent was filed on April 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/917,770.

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