Patents by Inventor Do Kyung JUNG

Do Kyung JUNG 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).

  • Publication number: 20240091355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition, for prevention or treatment of cancer diseases, comprising CD8+ T cells activated by CD4+ T cell-derived extracellular vesicles as an active ingredient. It was found that the secretion of extracellular vesicles from cytokine-activated CD4+ T cells increases and the extracellular vesicles enhance proliferation and activity of CD8+ T cells to induce the death of cancer cells, thereby augmenting an anticancer effect. Thus, the present invention provides the CD8+ T cells activated by CD4+ T cell-derived extracellular vesicles as a pharmaceutical agent or an immunotherapeutic agent for cancer diseases, and a method for activating CD8+ T cells by using CD4+ T cell-derived extracellular vesicles to prepare CD8+ T cells showing excellent anticancer activity as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Moon-Chang BAEK, Kyungmoo YEA, Do Kyung JUNG, Suyeon RYU, Sang Hee SHIN, In Seong JUNG
  • Publication number: 20240082358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing IL-2 or an expression promoter or activator thereof as an active ingredient for prevention or treatment of cancer disease. In the present invention, it was discovered that when treating cancer cells with IL-2, an anticancer effect was enhanced by inhibiting the secretion of cancer cell-derived exosomes and the expression of PD-L1 inducing immune escape of T cells. IL-2 was also discovered to effectuate the anticancer effect directly on cancer cells compared to conventional techniques exhibiting an immune anticancer effect by activating cytotoxic T cells. Thus, IL-2 or an expression promoter or activator thereof can be advantageously used in a composition for prevention or treatment of cancer diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Moon-Chang BAEK, Kyungmoo YEA, Do Kyung JUNG, Suyeon RYU, Soo Jeong NOH
  • Publication number: 20220409741
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating cancer, the composition containing IL-2 surface expression-extracellular vesicles as an active ingredient. According to the present invention, immune cells, in which useful cytokines have been expressed on the cell surface, and extracellular vesicles, preferably small extracellular vesicles (sEV), which are derived from the immune cells and have useful cytokines expressed on the surface were prepared using a lentiviral vector containing a cytokine-linker-a PDGF receptor transmembrane domain, and it was found that the extracellular vesicles increased proliferation and activity of cytotoxic T cells thereby increasing anti-cancer immune efficacy. Thus, the extracellular vesicles having the efficacy can be usefully utilized as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancer, a pharmaceutical composition for co-administration with an anticancer drug, or a composition for delivering a drug or a physiologically active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicants: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Moon Chang BAEK, Do Kyung JUNG, Kyungmoo YEA