US Patent Issued to Osaka University on March 11 for "Method for inducing differentiation of corneal epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,219, issued on March 11, was assigned to Osaka University (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for inducing differentiation of corneal epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Kohji Nishida (Suita, Japan), Ryuhei Hayashi (Suita, Japan) and Yuki Ishikawa (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for inducing the differentiation of corneal epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for autonomously differentiating pluripotent stem cells, such as human iPS cells, into ectodermal cell lineage in a serum-free medium withou...