US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on June 2 for "Composition for immune tolerance induction and use in gene therapy" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,866, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Amherst, N.Y.).

"Composition for immune tolerance induction and use in gene therapy" was invented by Sathy V. Balu-Iyer (Amherst, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and methods for reducing pre-existing antibodies against viral vector or gene-editing related proteins. The compositions showed reduction in various antibody titers by administration of a liposome composition complexed with a protein or fragment thereof of a viral vector. The liposomes comprise phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine, wherein s...