Patents by Inventor Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina

Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina 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).

  • Patent number: 10058514
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to silk-based scaffolds and methods of producing the same, which can be used for a range of tissue engineering applications. The fabrication methods described herein provide a versatile platform to incorporate hollow conduits (e.g., for nutrient/oxygen delivery) through three-dimensional silk-based scaffolds that have tunable bulk properties (e.g., but not limited to, porosity, mechanical, degradation rate) and allow endothelialization and/or cell compartmentalization, for engineering a variety of complex tissue equivalents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TUFTS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lindsay Wray, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, David L. Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20170027879
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to silk-based scaffolds and methods of producing the same, which can be used for a range of tissue engineering applications. The fabrication methods described herein provide a versatile platform to incorporate hollow conduits (e.g., for nutrient/oxygen delivery) through three-dimensional silk-based scaffolds that have tunable bulk properties (e.g., but not limited to, porosity, mechanical, degradation rate) and allow endothelialization and/or cell compartmentalization, for engineering a variety of complex tissue equivalents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Wray, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, David L. Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20140370094
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to silk-based scaffolds and methods of producing the same, which can be used for a range of tissue engineering applications. The fabrication methods described herein provide a versatile platform to incorporate hollow conduits (e.g., for nutrient/oxygen delivery) through three-dimensional silk-based scaffolds that have tunable bulk properties (e.g., but not limited to, porosity, mechanical, degradation rate) and allow endothelialization and/or cell compartmentalization, for engineering a variety of complex tissue equivalents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Lindsay Wray, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, David L. Kaplan