US Patent Issued to Kyoto University, Osaka University, Eisai R&D Management on Feb. 10 for "Method for inducing dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,894, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) and Eisai R&D Management Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for inducing dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells" was invented by Jun Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Daisuke Doi (Kyoto, Japan), Bumpei Samata (Kyoto, Japan), Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi (Suita, Japan) and Yuichi Ono (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for producing dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells from pluripotent stem cells, which method comprises the steps of: (i) performing adherent culture of pluripotent stem cells on an extracellular m...