Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Promoters For Specific Expression Of Genes In Cone Photoreceptors' Filed by Institute Of Molecular And Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB)

MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517017298 A) filed by Institute Of Molecular And Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland, on Feb. 27, for 'promoters for specific expression of genes in cone photoreceptors.'

Inventor(s) include Roska, Botond; Scholl, Hendrik P. N.; Juttner, Josephine; and Spirig, Stefan.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein are synthetic cone-specific promoters. The promoters can be used in nucleic acids, vectors, or host cells to drive expression of a heterologous polypeptide or RNA in retinal cells, particularly...