Patents Examined by Pamela Holbrook
  • Use of scatter factor to enhance angiogenesis
    Patent number: 6498144
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of enhancing wound healing and to a method of enhancing organ transplantation utilizing scatter factor, either alone or in combination with a growth factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: North Shore - Long Island Jewish Research Institute
    Inventors: Itzhak D. Goldberg, Eliot M. Rosen
  • BDNF polymorphism and association with bipolar disorder
    Patent number: 6458541
    Abstract: Methods for diagnosing and treating neuropsychiatric disorders, especially bipolar disorder, and to methods for identifying compounds for use in the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders are disclosed. Also disclosed are novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for use in the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignees: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, General Hospital Corporation, Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Pamela Sklar, Eric S. Lander, J. Raymond DePaulo, Melvin G. McInnis