Patents by Inventor Esther Aboud-Pirak

Esther Aboud-Pirak 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).

  • DNA vaccine for protecting an avian against infectious bursal disease virus
    Patent number: 6468984
    Abstract: This invention provides a vaccine for protecting an avian species against infectious bursal disease virus which comprises an effective immunizing amount of a vector comprising 1) one or more isolated nucleic acids encoding an infectious bursal disease virus polypeptide; and 2) a suitable carrier and/or adjuvant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Innovo Biotechnologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Esther Aboud-Pirak, Michael E. Pirak, Esther Shaoul, Limor Monadeev
  • Use of hematopoietic deficient cell transplanted chimeric nonhuman mammals as human bacterial toxin shock models
    Patent number: 6368572
    Abstract: A chimeric non-human mammal M3 having its hematopoietic cells substantially destroyed and replaced by hematopoietic cells from a hematopoietic deficient mammal, wherein M3 is susceptible to bacterial toxin-related pathologies found in humans, and to methods of making and using thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yair Reisner, George Lowell, Esther Aboud-Pirak
  • Control of fruit ripening and senescence in plants
    Patent number: 6271009
    Abstract: Hapten and antigen designed for eliciting catalytic antibodies effective in inhibiting the ethylene production pathway in plants by deactivating a precursor thereof either by decomposition or derivatization. Catalytic antibodies effective in inhibiting the ethylene production pathway in plants by deactivating a precursor thereof. Genes encoding for such catalytic antibodies and plants and cells expressing these genes and producing the catalytic antibodies for controlling the ripening of fruits and vegetables, as well as for controlling senescence of plant tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Vitality Biotechnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ehud Keinan, Harel Itzhaky, Esther Aboud-Pirak, Shimon Gepstein