US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on April 14 for "Nerve guidance conduit comprising neural crest stem-like cells and/or Schwann cell precursor-like cells and methods of making and using the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,634, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Nerve guidance conduit comprising neural crest stem-like cells and/or Schwann cell precursor-like cells and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Anh D. Le (Philadelphia) and Qunzhou Zhang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a functionalized nerve guidance conduit (NGC), methods of making neurotrophic factor-expressing neural crest stem-like cells (NCSC) and/or Schwann cell precursor-like (SCP) cells, methods of making the functionalized nerve guidance conduit, and methods o...