Patents by Inventor Rita Schmutzler

Rita Schmutzler 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).

  • RAD51C as a Human Cancer Susceptibility Gene
    Publication number: 20190161807
    Abstract: The invention discloses in vitro methods and a system for determining a predisposition of a subject for developing a cancer on the basis of analyzing a sample of the subject for an alteration of at least one allele of the RAD51C gene. Further disclosed are in vitro methods for assessing clinical features or a pathological progression of a cancer and for assessing at least one RAD51C gene alteration in a cell. In addition a kit for determining a predisposition of a subject for developing a cancer, and certain uses of oligonucleotides for determining the presence of at least one mono-allelic germ-line mutation of the RAD51C gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Helmut Hanenberg, Dieter Niederacher, Kathrin Irmgard Maria Scheckenbach, Rita Schmutzler, Alfons Meindl, Constanze Wiek, Verena Friemann, Marcel Freund
  • RAD51C AS A HUMAN CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE
    Publication number: 20150111213
    Abstract: The invention discloses in vitro methods and a system for determining a predisposition of a subject for developing a cancer on the basis of analyzing a sample of the subject for an alteration of at least one allele of the RAD51C gene. Further disclosed are in vitro methods for assessing clinical features or a pathological progression of a cancer and for assessing at least one RAD51 C gene alteration in a cell. In addition a kit for determining a predisposition of a subject for developing a cancer, and certain uses of oligonucleotides for determining the presence of at least one mono-allelic germ-line mutation of the RAD51C gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicants: UNIVERSITÄT ZU KOLN, HEINRICH- HEINE-UNIVERSITÄT DÜSSELDORF
    Inventors: Helmut Hanenberg, Dieter Niederacher, Kathrin Irmgara Maria Scheckenbach, Rita Schmutzler, Alfons Meindl, Constanze Wiek, Verena Erven, Marcel Freund