Patents by Inventor Raúl Alba Fernández

Raúl Alba Fernández 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).

  • Publication number: 20100173387
    Abstract: Method for producing adenovirus vectors for gene therapy and auxiliary vectors used therefor. The method is based on the multiplication of gutless adenoviruses that lack adenovirus-coding sequences by cotransfecting them with an auxiliary or helper adenovirus that has an attB sequence of the &phis;C31 bacteriophage inserted between the adenovirus packaging signal and the ITR closest to it and/or utilizing the delay arising at the time of packaging the helper adenovirus with respect to that of the gutless adenovirus owing to the presence of the atttB sequence in order to recover the gutless adenovirus from the culture before the helper adenovirus completes its viral cycle. This gives rise to high gutless adenovirus titres that are essentially free from helper adenovirus, thereby allowing them to be used in gene therapy, minimizing the likelihood of the appearance of a cellular immune response on the part of the treated individual against cells transduced by the adenovirus vector produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicants: UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, INSTITUCIO CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANCATS (ICREA)
    Inventors: Miguel Chillón Rodríguez, Raúl Alba Fernández, Assumpció Bosch Merino