US Patent Issued to STEMCELL TECHNOLOGIES CANADA on Oct. 27 for "Methods to stimulate immune responses to mutant Ras using nucleated cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,446, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to STEMCELL TECHNOLOGIES CANADA INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Methods to stimulate immune responses to mutant Ras using nucleated cells" was invented by Defne Yarar (Watertown, Mass.), Howard Bernstein (Cambridge, Mass.), Katherine Seidl (Watertown, Mass.), Amritha Ramakrishnan (Watertown, Mass.), Carolyne Kelly Smith (Waltham, Mass.), Anita Venkitaraman (Watertown, Mass.) and Scott Loughhead (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides nucleated cells comprising a mutated Ras antigen (such as a mutated K-Ras antigen), methods of manufacturing such nucleated cells...