Patents by Inventor Robert E Hawkins

Robert E Hawkins 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).

  • Immune responses to fusion proteins
    Patent number: 6936464
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nucleic acid construct for delivery into living cells in vivo for inducing an immune response in a patient to an idiotypic determinant present on a malignant B cell in the patient; the construct directing the expression of a fusion protein, said fusion protein comprising the idiotypic determinant and at least one T helper cell epitope from tetanus toxin. The invention further relates to a method of making the nucleic acid construct, a method of treating a patient, and to a composition comprising the nucleic acid construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: Delin Zhu, Robert E Hawkins, Stephen J. Russell, Freda K. Stevenson, Gregory P Winter