Patents Represented by Attorney Kathleen Madden Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Williams
  • Patent number: 5861155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to humanized antibodies and binding proteins thereof, capable of binding to T cells exhibiting particular variable beta chains, and particularly those subpopulations expressing human V beta 5.2 and/or 5.3, and V beta 8.1. The present invention also relates to the preparation of such antibodies, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and therapeutic utilization of the antibodies, specifically in autoimmune diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Astra AB
    Inventor: Augustine Y. Lin