Patents by Inventor Shahin Rafii

Shahin Rafii has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Adult stem cell recruitment
    Publication number: 20040071687
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of proteases to recruit stem cells from the niches they normally occupy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Shahin Rafii, Beate Heissig, Koichi Hattori
  • Endothelial precursor cells for enhancing and restoring vascular function
    Publication number: 20040001807
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating and preventing loss of tissue vascularization that can occur, for example, upon aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Jay Edelberg, Shahin Rafii, Mun Hong, Robert P. Lanza, Michael D. West
  • Platelet-derived growth factor protection of cardiac myocardium
    Publication number: 20030091547
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating and preventing loss of tissue vascularization that can occur, for example, upon aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Jay M. Edelberg, Shahin Rafii, Mun K. Hong
  • PURIFIED POPULATIONS OF ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELLS
    Publication number: 20020051762
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a purified population of mammalian endothelial stem cells. The invention further provides methods for isolating such populations of cells, methods for using such populations of cells for treating mammals in need of neovascularization and for making vectors for gene therapy, and methods for carrying out gene therapy with such vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: SHAHIN RAFII, LARRY WITTE, MALCOLM A.S. MOORE