US Patent Issued to City of Hope on Dec. 16 for "CAR for treatment of HIV infection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,338, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.).

"CAR for treatment of HIV infection" was invented by John Zaia (Duarte, Calif.), Kevin Morris (Duarte, Calif.), Xiuli Wang (Temple City, Calif.) and Stephen J. Forman (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of treatment for HIV employing T cells expressing both a chimeric antigen receptors targeted to HIV and a CMV-specific T cell receptor."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2018, under Application No. 16/758,516.

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