Patents Assigned to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
  • Induction of immune tolerance to tumor cells
    Patent number: 5723718
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of producing a canine animal model of cancer. The method comprising introducing a heterologous tumor cell into an pre-mature, preimmunocompetent canine animal under conditions that induce immune tolerance to the tumor cell. The tumor cell is then allowed to proliferate in the canine animal, thereby forming a tumor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
    Inventor: Michael E. Berens
  • Apparatus for facilitating intravenous feeding during transportation of patient
    Patent number: 4511157
    Abstract: Apparatus for interconnecting a wheelchair and portable wheeled IV stand to maintain the wheelchair and IV stand in fixed spaced relationship with respect to one another when the wheelchair is being pushed by a medical attendant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
    Inventor: Chester F. Wilt, Jr.