US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL on April 22 for "Methods of enhancing development of renal organoids and methods of using the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,332, issued on April 22, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.) and THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC. (Boston).

"Methods of enhancing development of renal organoids and methods of using the same" was invented by Kimberly A. Homan (Somerville, Mass.), Navin R. Gupta (Brighton, Mass.), Katharina T. Kroll (Boston), David B. Kolesky (Cambridge, Mass.), Mark Skylar-Scott (Brookline, Mass.), Michael T. Valerius (Belmont, Mass.), Joseph Bonventre (Wayland, Mass.), Ryuji Morizane (Brookline, Mass.) and Jennifer Lewis (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods of enhancing de...