Patents by Inventor Lea Eisenbach

Lea Eisenbach 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).

  • Antitumor pharmaceutical composition comprising IL-6 transfected cells
    Patent number: 5902576
    Abstract: An anti-tumor pharmaceutical composition includes cells into which a gene encoding human IL-6 has been inserted. A method of treatment of a patient suffering from cancer to prevent and/or inhibit the development of metastases by administering to the patient the anti-tumor pharmaceutical composition including the above mentioned cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: YEDA Research and Development Co. Ltd. at Weizmann Institute of Science
    Inventors: Lea Eisenbach, Angel Porgador, Michael Feldman, Michel Revel
  • Double transfectants of the MHC genes as cellular vaccines for immuno prevention of tumor metastasis
    Patent number: 5750102
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-tumor vaccines comprising at least one type of tumor cell into each of which at least two genes encoding MHC proteins of different haplotypes have been inserted, or naturally expressed, said genes being expressed in said tumor cells and wherein at least one of said MHC proteins has the same haplotype as a haplotype of the individual to be vaccinated. The invention furthermore relates to a method of treating a patient suffering from a tumorous disease comprising administering a vaccine of the invention and to the use of a vaccine of the invention for the preparation of an anti-tumor vaccine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lea Eisenbach, Michael Feldman