US Patent Issued to International Institute of Cancer Immunology on Sept. 16 for "Method for activating helper T cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,833, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Institute of Cancer Immunology Inc. (Suita, Japan).

"Method for activating helper T cell" was invented by Haruo Sugiyama (Minoo, Japan), Shinji Sogo (Osaka, Japan), Masayoshi Sato (Osaka, Japan), Ryuki Kitamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshihiro Goto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for activating helper T cells, which includes the step of activating helper T cells by adding a WT1 peptide to antigen presenting cells, wherein the WT1 peptide has the ability to bind to any MHC class II molecule of an HLA-DRB1*0101 molecule, an HLA-DR...