Directed maturation of CD34 negative stem cells to programmable antigen presenting cells
Patent Number: 6586243
Date of First Priority Issue: Wednesday July 2nd, 1997
Date Issued: Tuesday July 1st, 2003
Assignee: Unknown Assignee(s)
Inventors: Cezayirli, Cem (Birmingham, AL); Silvers, Mel (North Miami Beach, FL)
From Class: Differentiation
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This patent teaches ways of generating dendritic cells from human hematopoietic stem cells and furthermore teaches how to pulse these dendritic cells with tumor antigens for use as cancer vaccines. This approach is similar in some ways to work performed by Eli Gilboa and the company Argos Therapeutics.
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