US Patent Issued to Oxford University Innovation on March 11 for "Compositions for inducing an immune response" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,038, issued on March 11, was assigned to Oxford University Innovation Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Compositions for inducing an immune response" was invented by Adrian V S Hill (Oxford, Great Britain) and Irina Redchenko (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a composition for inducing a T cell mediated immune response for the treatment or prevention of prostate cancer comprising a modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) vector expressing the 5T4 antigen polypeptide under control of a poxvirus F11 promoter. Suitably said poxvirus F11 promoter is the endogenous MVA F11 promoter. More suitably sa...