US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on April 22 for "Methods and compositions for natural killer cells" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,094, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Methods and compositions for natural killer cells" was invented by Alicja Copik (Casselberry, Fla.), Vijay Reddy (Orlando, Fla.) and Jeremiah Oyer (Longwood, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides new compositions and methods for stimulating the production of natural killer (NK) cells in a subject. NK cells can be selectively expanded with a combination of stimulating ligands. Methods and compositions for the administration of stimulatory ligands modified to self-insert into tumor cells, thereby stimu...