Patents by Inventor Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch 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: 20110076678
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of reprogramming one or more somatic cells, e.g., partially differentiated or fully/terminally differentiated somatic cells, to a less differentiated state, e.g., a pluripotent or multipotent state. In further embodiments the invention also relates to reprogrammed somatic cells produced by methods of the invention, to uses of said cells, and to methods for identifying agents useful for reprogramming somatic cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Rudolf Jaenisch, Jaqub Hanna, Marius Wernig, Christopher J. Lengner, Alexander Meissner, Oliver Tobias Brambrink, G. Grant Welstead, Ruth Foreman
  • Publication number: 20110061119
    Abstract: A method of producing mutant/targeted non-human mammals, such as mutant mice that does not require production of chimera and permits the introduction of multiple mutations in embryos and, thus, avoids the necessity of breeding to combine all of the desired mutations in a single animal. The method is efficient in producing ES mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Kevin C. Eggan, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20110045994
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof in microscale particle capturing and particle pairing. This invention provides particle patterning device, which mechanically traps individual particles within first chambers of capture units, transfer the particles to second chambers of opposing capture units, and traps a second type of particle in the same second chamber. The device and methods allow for high yield assaying of trapped cells, high yield fusion of trapped, paired cells, for controlled binding of particles to cells and for specific chemical reactions between particle interfaces and particle contents. The device and method provide means of identification of the particle population and a facile route to particle collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Joel Voldman, Alison M. Skelley, Oktay Kirak, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20110027235
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for targeted integration of sequences of interest such as lineage-specific or cell fate reporter constructs or protein encoding sequences into stem cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Philip D. Gregory, Dirk Hockemeyer, Michael C. Holmes, Rudolf Jaenisch, Frank Soldner, Fyodor Urnov, Shuyuan Yao
  • Publication number: 20100310525
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods of use in reprogramming somatic cells. Compositions and methods of the invention are of use, e.g., for generating or modulating (e.g., enhancing) generation of induced pluripotent stem cells by reprogramming somatic cells. The reprogrammed somatic cells are useful for a number of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a pluripotent state and/or enhances the speed and/or efficiency of reprogramming. Certain of the compositions and methods relate to modulating the Wnt pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Brett Chevalier, Alexander Marson, Richard A. Young, Ruth Foreman, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20100273259
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device and a cell culture system comprising a substrate that generates significant chemical ion signatures adapted for culturing stem cells. This disclosure further provides unique surface properties, such as surface wettability, along with defined polymer microspot environments in an array, for effectively supporting the propagation and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in vitro. Methods of culturing, maintenance, differentiating stem cells as well as reprogramming somatic cells into stem cells using the device and the cell culture system with the suitable substrates, along with suitable culture media, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Krishanu Saha, Ying Mei, Said R. Bogatyrev, Daniel G. Anderson, Rudolf Jaenisch, Robert S. Langer, Morgan Alexander, Martyn Davies, Jing Yang, Christian J. Kastrup, Andrew Urquhart
  • Publication number: 20100221827
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for reprogramming somatic cells to generate multipotent or pluripotent cells. Such methods are useful for a variety of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a less differentiated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Rudolf Jaenisch, Konrad Hochedlinger
  • Publication number: 20100144031
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for reprogramming somatic cells to generate multipotent or pluripotent cells. Such methods are useful for a variety of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a less differentiated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Rudolf Jaenisch, Konrad Hochedlinger
  • Patent number: 7682828
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for reprogramming somatic cells to generate multipotent or pluripotent cells. Such methods are useful for a variety of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a less differentiated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Rudolf Jaenisch, Konrad Hochedlinger
  • Publication number: 20100021437
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel populations of neural stem cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, and methods for making and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Ole Isacson, Jan Pruszak, Marius Wernig, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20090099077
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for treatment of Rett Syndrome and other disorders of synaptic function and maturation using IGF1, (1-3)IGF-1, (1-3)IGF-1 analog(s) and/or related therapeutic molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Mriganka Sur, Daniela Tropea, Emanuela Giacometti, Rudolf Jaenisch, Nathan R. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20080280362
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for reprogramming somatic cells to generate multipotent or pluripotent cells. Such methods are useful for a variety of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a less differentiated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Rudolf Jaenisch, Konrad Hochedlinger
  • Publication number: 20050081257
    Abstract: A method of producing mutant/targeted non-human mammals, such as mutant mice that does not require production of chimera and permits the introduction of multiple mutations in embryos and, thus, avoids the necessity of breeding to combine all of the desired mutations in a single animal. The method is efficient in producing ES mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Kevin Eggan, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20040231014
    Abstract: A method of producing mutant/targeted non-human mammals, such as mutant mice that does not require production of chimera and permits the introduction of multiple mutations in embryos and, thus, avoids the necessity of breeding to combine all of the desired mutations in a single animal. The method is efficient in producing ES mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Kevin C. Eggan, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Patent number: 6784336
    Abstract: A method of producing mutant/targeted non-human mammals, such as mutant mice that does not require production of chimera and permits the introduction of multiple mutations in embryos and, thus, avoids the necessity of breeding to combine all of the desired mutations in a single animal. The method is efficient in producing ES mice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Kevin C. Eggan, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20040040051
    Abstract: A method of producing a non-human mammalian embryo, such as a mouse embryo, by nuclear cloning, in which the nucleus from a non-human mammalian embryonic stem (ES) cell (e.g., a non-human mammalian F1 ES cell), such as the nucleus of a mouse F1 ES cell, is introduced into an enucleated non-human mammalian oocyte, such as an enucleated mouse oocyte; embryos produced by the method; a method of producing mice from the resulting embryos and the mice produced thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicants: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, The University of Hawaii
    Inventors: William M. Rideout, Teruhiko Wakayama, Kevin C. Eggan, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Hidenori Akutsu, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20030228293
    Abstract: A method of correcting of treating a genetic disorder by combining therapeutic cloning and gene therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicants: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: William Rideout, Konrad Hochedlinger, Michael Kyba, Rita Perlingeiro, George Q. Daley, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20030204862
    Abstract: An improved and reproducible method for the generation of ES mice from inbred ES cells, without the need to generate a chimeric mouse intermediate is provided. The inbred ES cells may be recombinant or genetically modified, resulting in ES mice that are transgenic. The method may also be used for the fast production of ES mice strains homozygous for a defined genetic alteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Ralf Kuehn, Anja Rode, Rudolf Jaenisch, Branko Zevnik
  • Publication number: 20020078470
    Abstract: A method of producing mutant/targeted non-human mammals, such as mutant mice that does not require production of chimera and permits the introduction of multiple mutations in embryos and, thus, avoids the necessity of breeding to combine all of the desired mutations in a single animal. The method is efficient in producing ES mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Kevin C. Eggan, Rudolf Jaenisch
  • Publication number: 20020062493
    Abstract: A method of producing mutant/targeted non-human mammals, such as mutant mice that does not require production of chimera and permits the introduction of multiple mutations in embryos and, thus, avoids the necessity of breeding to combine all of the desired mutations in a single animal. The method is efficient in producing ES mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
    Inventors: Kevin C. Eggan, Rudolf Jaenisch