Patents by Inventor Gordon Weir

Gordon Weir 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).

  • BETA-CELL REPLICATION PROMOTING COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE
    Publication number: 20130023491
    Abstract: In the invention provides for a method of stimulating or increasing ?-cell replication or growth, by contacting a ?-cell with an inhibitor of adenosine kinase (ADK), an inhibitor of S-Adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAHH) or an activator of AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicants: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc., The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin P. Annes, Douglas A. Melton, Lee L. Rubin, Gordon Weir
  • ENCAPSULATED PANCREATIC ISLET CELL PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110045077
    Abstract: This invention is directed, inter alia, to encapsulated cell products, compositions comprising the same and uses thereof to treat diabetes, and related complications, increase islet cell masses, improve a metabolic profile in a subject, and other related conditions. Processes to produce the encapsulated islet cell product are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Gordon Weir, Clark K. Colton, Esther O'Sullivan, Amy Lewis