US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 25 for "Engraftment of stem cells with a combination of an agent that targets stem cells and modulation of immunoregulatory signaling" (California, Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,093, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Engraftment of stem cells with a combination of an agent that targets stem cells and modulation of immunoregulatory signaling" was invented by Judith A. Shizuru (Palo Alto, Calif.), Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, Calif.), Kipp Andrew Weiskopf (Sudbury, Mass.), Aaron Michael Ring (New Haven, Conn.), Akanksha Chhabra (San Francisco) and Peter Schnorr (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a clinically applicable method of stem cell transplantation that facilitates engraftment ...