US Patent Issued to THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Jan. 28 for "Genome-wide classifiers for detection of subacute transplant rejection and other transplant conditions" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,283, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (La Jolla, Calif.) and NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Genome-wide classifiers for detection of subacute transplant rejection and other transplant conditions" was invented by Sunil M. Kurian (San Diego), Michael M. Abecassis (Chicago) and John J. Friedewald (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods of detecting sub-acute rejection and other categories of rejection in kidney transplant recipients using unique sets of gene expression markers."

The patent was filed on May 10, 2019, under Application No. 17/053,834.

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