The University of Pittsburgh announced that Pitt innovators were issued 12 U.S. patents in March 2021.
Featured Patent: 10,940,239 “Bioengineered Human Corneal Stromal Tissue”
Approximately 10 million people worldwide suffer from corneal blindness due to corneal scarring. The middle layer of the cornea is known as the stroma. The stroma is the thickest part of the cornea and consists of collagen fibers and cells known as keratocytes. When the stroma is damaged a scar often forms resulting in reduced transparency and vision. Currently, these patients would receive a corneal transplant to restore their vision. This procedure has an 18% failure rate and is dependent on the availability of a donor cornea. William Wagner, Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Director of the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine, and colleagues, have developed a biocompatible, biodegradable scaffold useful in the preparation of bioengineered corneal tissue.
For more information on this innovation, including licensing, contact Janice Panza at jpanza@innovation.pitt.edu.
Below is a list of patents issued to Pitt innovators in March 2021. You can also search the database of all Pitt innovations available for licensing.
Patent Number |
Title | Inventor(s) | Licensing Manager | Status | |||
10,934,188 | Treatment of Produced Water | Radisav Vidic | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
10,933,145 | Compositions and Methods for Reducing the Risk of Radiocontrast-Induced Nephropathy | Sohail Husain | Maria Vanegas | Licensed | |||
10,933,077 | Novel TLR4 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Human Infections and Inflammatory Disorders | Peter Wipf; Matthew Neal; Chinder Sodhi; David Hackam | Maria Vanegas | Optioned | |||
10,934,477 | Proppants for Sequestering a Target Species | Matthew Kropf | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
10,940,239 | Bioengineered Human Corneal Stromal Tissue | William Wagner; James Funderburgh; Jian Wu; Yiqin Du | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
10,944,114 | Highly Active, Robust and Versatile Multifunctional, Fully Non-Noble Metals Based Electro-Catalyst Compositions and Methods of Making for Energy Conversion and Storage. | Prashant Kumta; Prasad Patel; Moni Datta; Oleg Velikokhatnyi; Prashanth Hanumantha; Ramalinga Kuruba; Shrinath Ghadge | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
10,940,164 | Microsphere-Based Delivery and Ex Vivo Manipulation of Dendritic Cells for Autoimmune Therapies | Nick Giannoukakis; Massimo Trucco | Andrew Remes | Not Available for Licensing | |||
10,950,353 | Systems and Methods for Disease Progression Modeling | Hiroshi Ishikawa; Yu-Ying Liu; James Rehg; Joel Schuman; Chaim-Gadi Wollstein | Janice Panza | Licensed | |||
10,948,497 | Proteomic Biomarkers of Sepsis in Elderly Patients | Zhiyun Cao; John Kellum Jr.; Derek Angus; Sachin Yende; Rena Sowell | Alex Ducruet | Available for Licensing | |||
10,954,159 | Optical Sensor Employing a Refractive Index Engineered Metal Oxide Material | Peng Kevin Chen; Zsolt Poole; Paul Ohodnicki; Michael Buric | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
10,961,534 | Methods of Treating Porphyria | Kari Nejak-Bowen; Satdarshan Pal Singh Monga | Maria Vanegas | Available for Licensing | |||
10,961,557 | Detection of Bacteria Using Bacteriophage | John Kellum Jr.; John Hempel; Robert Edgar; John Viator | Maria Vanegas | Licensed | |||