US Patent Issued to Sunnybrook Research Institute on Nov. 11 for "Method for generating cells of the T cell lineage" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,034, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sunnybrook Research Institute (Toronto).

"Method for generating cells of the T cell lineage" was invented by Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker (Toronto), Mahmood Mohtashami (Toronto) and Ashton Trotman-Grant (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating cells of the T cell lineage is provided comprising (a) culturing a sample comprising stem cells or progenitor cells with a Notch ligand conjugated to a suspension support and (b) isolating cells of the T cell lineage. In one embodiment, the cells of the T-cell lineage are progenitor T cells or mature T cells. Compositions, kits and us...