Patents Assigned to McGill Unviersity
  • INGAP protein involved in pancreatic islet neogenesis
    Patent number: RE39062
    Abstract: Cellophane wrapping (CW) of hamster pancreas induces proliferation of duct epithelial cells followed by endocrine cell differentiation and islet neogenesis. Using the mRNA differential display technique a cDNA clone expressed in cellophane wrapped but not in control pancreata was identified. Using this cDNA as a probe, a cDNA library was screened and a gene not previously described was identified and named INGAP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignees: McGill Unviersity, Eastern Virginia Medical School of the Medical College of Hampton Roads
    Inventors: Aaron I. Vinik, Gary L. Pittenger, Ronit Rafaeloff-Phail, Lawrence Rosenberg, Jean T. S. Duguid, William P. Duguid