Patents by Inventor Anna Modelska

Anna Modelska has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Polypeptides fused with alfalfa mosaic virus or ilarvirus capsid
    Patent number: 6448070
    Abstract: A fusion capsid protein comprising a plant virus capsid protein fused to an antigenic polypeptide is used as a molecule for presentation of that polypeptide to the immune system of an animal such as a human. The plant virus capsid protein is that of an alfalfa mosaic virus (AlMV) or ilarvirus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Thomas Jefferson University
    Inventors: Hilary Koprowski, Vidadi Yusibov, Douglas Craig Hooper, Anna Modelska
  • Polypeptides fused with alfalfa mosaic virus or ilarvirus capsid proteins
    Patent number: 6042832
    Abstract: A fusion capsid protein comprising a plant virus capsid protein fused to an antigenic polypeptide is used as a molecule for presentation of that polypeptide to the immune system of an animal such as a human. The plant virus capsid protein is that of an alfalfa mosaic virus (AlMV) or ilarvirus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Thomas Jefferson University
    Inventors: Hilary Koprowski, Vidadi Yusibov, Douglas Craig Hooper, Anna Modelska
  • Synthesis of immunologic, therapeutic and prophylactic compounds by transformed clavibacter
    Patent number: 5935570
    Abstract: A process for the synthesis and delivery of bioactive compounds, compounds that have a therapeutic, biochemical, or immunologic, effect on an animal, such as human. In the process, clavibacter is genetically altered so that it synthesizes the bioactive compound. A plant may be infected with the genetically altered clavibacter and used an as oral delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Thomas Jefferson University
    Inventors: Hilary Koprowski, Peter Spikins Carlson, Douglas Craig Hooper, Laura Jane Conway, Frank H. Michaels, Anna Modelska, Zhen Fang Fu