US Patent Issued to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Aug. 11 for "Genomic insulator element exhibiting enhancer blocking activities in lymphocytes and uses thereof" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,720, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Genomic insulator element exhibiting enhancer blocking activities in lymphocytes and uses thereof" was invented by Sheng Zhou (Memphis, Tenn.), Brian Sorrentino (Memphis, Tenn.) and Yong Cheng (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construct including a genomic insulator element that exhibits strong enhancer blocking activities in T lymphocytes is provided as are host cells, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the construct in the treatment of disease, in particular a disease to be treated with a retroviral vec...