Patents Assigned to The Trustees of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania
  • Patent number: 11872764
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for 3D printing from images, e.g., medical images or images obtained using any appropriate volumetric imaging technology. In some examples, a method includes receiving, from a medical imaging device, a multi-dimensional image of a structure. The method includes, for each two dimensional (2D) slice of the multi-dimensional image, converting, row-by-row for each row of the 2D slice, voxels of the 2D slice into 3D printing instructions for the 2D slice. The method includes 3D printing, by controlling a 3D printing extruder, a physical model based on the structure by 3D printing, slice by slice, each 2D slice using the 3D printing instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERISTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
    Inventor: Chamith Sudesh Rajapakse
  • Patent number: 9598489
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating ovarian cancer. Specifically, the invention relates to administering a genetically modified T cell having alpha-folate receptor (FR-alpha) binding domain and CD27 costimulatory domain to treat ovarian cancer. In an embodiment, the FR-alpha binding domain is fully human, thereby preventing a host immune response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: The Trustees of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania
    Inventor: Daniel J. Powell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8530196
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to methods related to cloning nucleic acids from biological samples, particularly pathological tissue samples. This method includes hybridizing a population of oligonucleotide sequence probes comprising degenerate sequence tags to a fixed tissue, isolating the hybridized oligonucleotide sequence probes and amplifying the sequence tags in the hybridized oligonucleotide sequence probes. This method can be utilized to identify genes associated with disease and to quantitate the expression of disease-related transcripts. The method can also be used to identify truncated mRNAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Trustees of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: James H. Eberwine, Max B. Kelz
  • Publication number: 20110158907
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to diphenyl-heteroaryl compounds, and methods of making radiolabeled diphenyl-heteroaryl compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: The Trustees of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Hank F. Kung, Mei-Ping Kung, Wenchao Qu
  • Publication number: 20090220528
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for modulating Toll-like receptors (TLRs) for enhancing survival of activated CD4+ T cells. The enhanced survival of activated CD4+ T cells provides a means for regulating an immune response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERISTY OF PENNSYLVANIA CNETER FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
    Inventors: Laurence Turka, Andrew E. Gelman
  • Publication number: 20060235473
    Abstract: Methods and devices are described for the regulation of Transforming Growth actor (TGF)-?1, ?2, and/or ?3 protein gene expression in bone cells and other tissues via the capacitive coupling or inductive coupling of specific and selective electric fields to the bone cells or other tissues, where the specific and selective electric fields are generated by application of specific and selective electric and electromagnetic signals to electrodes or one or more coils or other field generating device disposed with respect to the bone cells or other tissues so as to facilitate the treatment of diseased or injured bone and other tissues. By gene expression is meant the up-regulation or down-regulation of the process whereby specific portions (genes) of the human genome (DNA) are transcribed into mRNA and subsequently translated into protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: The Trustees of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania
    Inventor: Carl Brighton