Patents by Inventor Nan-Ping Wang

Nan-Ping Wang 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).

  • Method of using an adenoviral vector encoding a retinoblastoma protein to treat hyperproliferating cells
    Patent number: 7105156
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of controlling cell cycle progression by introducing into a cell to be controlled a composition selected from the group consisting of p56RB protein, a fragment of the p56RB protein, and the gene encoding p56RB protein to alter the cell cycle progression while maintaining the viability of the cell. The p56RB protein has been found to have the unexpected and surprising characteristic of being soluble in low concentrations of glycerol, thereby enhancing its value in pharmaceutical applications and the gene encoding p56RB when delivered to the hyperproliferating cell inhibits cellular proliferation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Canji, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen-Hwa Lee, H. Michael Shepard, Richard J. Gregory, Ken N. Wills, Daniel C. Maneval, Eva Lee, David Goodrich, Nan-Ping Wang
  • Therapeutic use of the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product
    Patent number: 5851991
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of preventing or inhibiting the proliferation of a pathologically proliferating cell, wherein the pathological proliferation of the cell is the result of the absence of a functional retinoblastoma protein or polypeptide in the cell. The method requires contacting the cell with an effective amount of retinoblastoma protein or polypeptide. This method also is useful to prevent or treat retinoblastoma or a secondary cancer to retinoblastoma by administering to a patient a functional retinoblastoma protein or polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Canji, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen-Hwa Lee, Eva Y-H.P. Lee, David W. Goodrich, H. Michael Shepard, Nan Ping Wang, Duane Johnson