Patents by Inventor Wendell A. Lim

Wendell A. Lim 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: 20190002922
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, James Harrison Doudna Cate, Wendell Lim, Lei Qi, Emmanuelle Charpentier
  • Publication number: 20190002923
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, James Harrison Doudna Cate, Wendell Lim, Lei Qi, Emmanuelle Charpentier
  • Publication number: 20190002921
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, James Harrison Doudna Cate, Wendell Lim, Lei Qi, Emmanuelle Charpentier
  • Publication number: 20180355011
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Wendell A. Lim, Leonardo Morsut, Kole T. Roybal
  • Patent number: 10105391
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim
  • Publication number: 20180282764
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Martin Jinek, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Krzysztof Chylinski, James Harrison Doudna Cate, Wendell Lim, Lei Qi, Jennifer A. Doudna
  • Publication number: 20180208636
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Wendell A. Lim, Leonardo Morsut, Kole T. Roybal, Justin Thomas Farlow, Satoshi Toda
  • Publication number: 20180085401
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim
  • Publication number: 20180079812
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Wendell A. Lim, Leonardo Morsut, Kole T. Roybal
  • Publication number: 20180042963
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim
  • Publication number: 20180016538
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to an illumination opto-plate configured to specifically light the wells of a culture plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Lukasz Bugaj, Wendell Lim
  • Patent number: 9834608
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Wendell A. Lim, Leonardo Morsut, Kole T. Roybal
  • Publication number: 20170340672
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim
  • Patent number: 9821012
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim
  • Publication number: 20170306303
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides conditionally active, heterodimeric polypeptides. The conditionally active, heterodimeric polypeptides are active in the presence of a dimerizing agent that induces dimerization of the polypeptides of the heterodimer. A conditionally active, heterodimeric polypeptide of the present disclosure is useful in a variety of research and treatment methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: John W. Taunton, Wendell A. Lim, Chia-Yung Wu
  • Publication number: 20170233474
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Wendell A. Lim, Leonardo Morsut, Kole T. Roybal
  • Publication number: 20170233762
    Abstract: Scaffold RNAs are provided. Compositions and methods are also provided for making and using scaffold RNAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Jesse Zalatan, Wendell Lim, Lei Qi
  • Patent number: 9670281
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Wendell A. Lim, Leonardo Morsut, Kole T. Roybal
  • Publication number: 20170143765
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim
  • Patent number: 9587020
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Chia-Yung Wu, James Onuffer, Wendell A. Lim