Patents Assigned to zPredicta, Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for isolating invasive and metastatic cells for evaluating therapeutics and prediction of metastatic capacity
    Patent number: 11124756
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods to produce an assembly that mimics in vitro the human microenvironment of a primary tumor site, a secondary distant organ, and circulation. Methods and apparatuses that provide a platform for the isolation of primary tumor, invasive, and metastatic cells to be used for evaluation of therapeutic efficacy and diagnostics as applied to metastatic cancers are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: zPredicta, Inc.
    Inventors: Julia Kirshner, Mukti Rajen Parikh
  • Method and apparatus for isolating invasive and metastatic cells for evaluating therapeutics and prediction of metastatic capacity
    Patent number: 10501717
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods to produce an assembly that mimics in vitro the human microenvironment of a primary tumor site, a secondary distant organ, and circulation. Methods and apparatuses that provide a platform for the isolation of primary tumor, invasive, and metastatic cells to be used for evaluation of therapeutic efficacy and diagnostics as applied to metastatic cancers are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: zPredicta, Inc.
    Inventors: Julia Kirshner, Mukti Rajen Parikh
  • SCREENING OF IMMUNO-MODULATORY THERAPIES
    Publication number: 20190169562
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods of preparing a platform, which entails, among others, contacting a) a culture comprising a medium or growth matrix comprising an immune cell, with b) a biological matrix mimetic comprising a target cell such a cancer cell, and allowing, under suitable conditions, the immune cell to migrate to the biological matrix mimetic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: zPredicta, Inc.
    Inventors: Julia Kirshner, Mukti Rajen Parikh