US Patent Issued to CITY OF HOPE on Jan. 20 for "MVA vectors for expressing multiple cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigens and use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,858, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"MVA vectors for expressing multiple cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigens and use thereof" was invented by Felix Wussow (Glendora, Calif.) and Don J. Diamond (Glendora, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expression system for co-expressing multiple human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) antigens to stimulate potent humoral and cellular immune responses against HCMV infection. The expression system may include a vector inserted with multiple nucleic acid sequences that encode multiple subunits of HCMV antigens linked by one or more linking sequences such that the subunits ar...