Patents by Inventor Tatsuro JO

Tatsuro JO 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: 20200360435
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for preventing or treating HTLV-1-associated diseases, such as ATL, a material for use in the technique, a method for screening the material, and the like. The present invention provides a TCR screening method comprising sorting HTLV-1-derived antigen-recognizing cells from cells derived from an HTVL-1 patient and subjecting the HTLV-1-derived antigen-recognizing cells to TCR repertoire analysis, ranking the TCR types in descending order of the number of cells of each TCR type, and selecting a highly ranked TCR. The present invention provides a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for an HTLV-1-associated disease, the agent comprising a TCR comprising specific CDRs that can be obtained by the TCR screening method and cells expressing the TCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIKU, Yoshihiro MIYAHARA, Keisuke FUJII, Tatsuro JO, Hiroyuki KISHI