US Patent Issued to ViaCyte on March 17 for "Universal donor cells and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,142, issued on March 17, was assigned to ViaCyte Inc. (San Diego).

"Universal donor cells and related methods" was invented by Anindita Bhoumik (San Diego), Alan D. Agulnick (San Diego) and Kevin Allen D'Amour (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are universal donor stem cells and cells derived therefrom and related methods of their use and production. The universal donor stem cells disclosed herein are useful for overcoming allogeneic immune rejection in cell-based transplantation therapies. In certain embodiments, the universal donor cells disclosed herein are pancreatic endoderm cells that do not express one...