Patents by Inventor Roberta de Souza Santos

Roberta de Souza Santos 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: 20240093154
    Abstract: Diabetes is a clinical condition that affects millions of people worldwide, and is treated by insulin replacement therapies. New strategies to create scalable and compatible pancreatic islets containing insulin-producing beta cells are necessary as an alternative to limited supply of cadaveric islets or multiple exogenous insulin applications. Improvements are still necessary since many immature polyhormonal cells remain, and cannot attain a monohormonal state. During human development, pancreas co-develops with endothelium and shares signals, allowing for better maturation of beta cells, and this is not included in the current differentiation protocols. The organchip microfluidic devices allows dynamic co-culture of different cells, thus resembling in vivo physiology. Here the Inventors establish organ-chip models co-culturing human iPSC-derived pancreatic precursors with iPSC-derived endothelial cells to obtain more functional and monohormonal iPSC-derived beta cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Dhruv Sareen, Roberta de Souza Santos