Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Technology

MUTANT ACE2 PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USING SAME

UW-Madison researchers have identified novel ACE2 mutants having enhanced activity and/or specificity in hydrolyzing angiotensin II. ACE2 (angiotensin converting enzyme 2) is a key metalloprotease of ...
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Philip Romero, Peter Heinzelman | P210188WO01

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RECOMBINANT MULTIVALENT INFLUENZA VIRUSES

The present invention relates to a novel bivalent coronavirus/influenza virus vaccine (called CoroFlu). The vaccine comprises a coronavirus antigen (a secreted version of the spike (S) protein of SARS...
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Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Gabriele Neumann | P200263US02

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CARDIAC FIBROBLAST DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX

UW-Madison researchers have discovered a novel marker in cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts that reliably predicts extracellular matrix production in cultured cardiac fibroblasts. Sushi Domain Con...
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Eric Schmuck, Amish Raval, Sushmita Roy, Tianhua Zhou | P210363US02

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Turbinmicin Compounds And Compositions As Potent Antifungal Agents

The present invention from UW Madison inventors is a set of analogs of turbinmicin that show similar efficacy but are more soluble than the parent molecule. The parent molecule proved to be fairly ins...
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Timothy Bugni, Weiping Tang, Le Guo, Changgui Zhao, Fan Zhang, Douglas Braun, David Andes, Miao Zhao, Jenna Fossen | P200353WO01

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Nonviral Generation of Genome-Edited CAR T Cells

Use of viral vectors for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell manufacturing constitutes a bottleneck in the supply chain for biomanufacturing and can be problematic due to: (1) batch-to-batch variab...
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Krishanu Saha, Christian Capitini, Katherine Mueller, Nicole Piscopo, Amritava Saha, Matthew Forsberg, Louise Saraspe | P200184US02

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NEUTRALIZING VACCINES AGAINST HUMAN CORONAVIRUS

The present invention provides both QuilA-loaded chitosan (QAC)-encapsulated DNA vaccine compositions and viral vaccine compositions that encode a SARs-CoV-2 spike (S) protein, a SARs-CoV-2 nucleocaps...
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Adel Talaat, Shaswath Chandrasekar | P210042US02

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