Patents Assigned to The University of Dundee
  • Hair growth composition
    Patent number: 5091173
    Abstract: A composition suitable for topical application to mammalian skin or hair comprising an amount of a cell-free supernatant from a culture of dermal papilla cells sufficient to increase hair growth in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: The University of Dundee
    Inventors: Travis E. J. Buultjens, Stephen W. Hellens, Colin A. B. Jahoda, Roy F. Oliver, Anne P. Withers
  • Composition for the regulation of hair growth
    Patent number: 5068315
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for regulating hair growth comprising a safe and effective amount of a polypeptide having the structure of those derived from dermal papilla cells with characteristics of apparent isoelectric pH/molecular weight selected from the group consisting of pI 5.1/45kD, pI 5.2/43kD, pI 5.2/40kD, pI 7.3/25kD, pI 7.4/25kD, or active fragment of these polypeptides, and mixtures thereof; and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: University of Dundee
    Inventors: Travis E. J. Buultjens, Colin A. B. Jahoda, Roy F. Oliver
  • Wheelchair
    Patent number: 4364580
    Abstract: A wheelchair having at least one pivotal wheel which is steerable in a mar which does not interfere with the manual driving of the wheelchair, by providing a pair of levers linked to the pivotal wheel or wheels and actuable by movement of the upper body of a user of the chair, each lever being movable to steer the wheelchair in one respective direction only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Assignee: The School of Bioengineering and Biophysics of the University of Dundee
    Inventor: Nigel G. Shapcott
  • Calculator
    Patent number: D349919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of Dundee
    Inventor: Hugh D. Tunstall-Pedoe