Patents by Inventor Marcy R. Weatherspoon

Marcy R. Weatherspoon 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).

  • Compositions, Methods, and Systems for SIRNA Delivery
    Publication number: 20110052666
    Abstract: The instant invention provides silencer expression cassettes for delivery of RNAi therapy. The silencer cassettes of the instant invention encode an RNAi agent and lack means for replication within a host cell, inverted terminal repeats and further lacking one or more selectable markers. Optionally, the silencer cassettes lack CpG dinucleotides and/or the RNAi agent is within a scaffold of a naturally occurring miRNA. The composition comprising the silencer cassettes of the instant invention, as well as methods of use and suitable systems are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Kaemmerer, Michael D. Kaytor, Marcy R. Weatherspoon