Patents by Inventor Eduardo Alexandre Barros e Silva

Eduardo Alexandre Barros e Silva 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).

  • Scaffolds For Cell Transplantation
    Publication number: 20120134967
    Abstract: A device that includes a scaffold composition and a bioactive composition with the bioactive composition being incorporated into or coated onto the scaffold composition such that the scaffold composition and/or a bioactive composition controls egress of a resident cell or progeny thereof. The devices mediate active recruitment, modification, and release of host cells from the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: DAVID J. MOONEY, OMAR ABDEL-RAHMAN ALI, EDUARDO ALEXANDRE BARROS E SILVA, HYUN JOON KONG, ELLIOT EARL HILL, JR., TANYARUT BOONTHEEKUL
  • Programming Of Cells for Tolerogenic Therapies
    Publication number: 20120121539
    Abstract: Biomaterial systems, e.g., gel scaffolds, are used in vivo to recruit immune cells and promote their activation towards a non-inflammatory phenotype, thereby leading suppression of inflammation. The compositions and methods are useful to reduce the severity of autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, allergy, and periodontal disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Roger Warren Sands, Eduardo Alexandre Barros e Silva, Toshihisa Kawai, David J. Mooney
  • Scaffolds for cell transplantation
    Patent number: 8067237
    Abstract: A device that includes a scaffold composition and a bioactive composition with the bioactive composition being incorporated into or coated onto the scaffold composition such that the scaffold composition and/or a bioactive composition controls egress of a resident cell or progeny thereof. The devices mediate active recruitment, modification, and release of host cells from the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: David J. Mooney, Omar Abdel-Rahman Ali, Eduardo Alexandre Barros e Silva, Hyun Joon Kong, Elliott Earl Hill, Jr., Tanyarut Boontheekul