Patents by Inventor Geoffrey L. Smith

Geoffrey L. Smith 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).

  • Methods and reagents for vaccination which generate a CD8 T cell immune response
    Patent number: 6663871
    Abstract: New methods and reagents for vaccination are described which generate a CD8 T cell immune response against malarial and other antigens such as viral and tumour antigens. Novel vaccination regimes are described which employ a priming composition and a boosting composition, the boosting composition comprising a non-replicating or replication-impaired pox virus vector carrying at least one CD8 T cell epitope which is also present in the priming composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Oxxon Pharmaccines Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew McMichael, Adrian V. S. Hill, Sarah C. Gilbert, Jörg Schneider, Magdalena Plebanski, Tomas Hanke, Geoffrey L. Smith, Tom Blanchard