Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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Engineered Bacterium and Uses Thereof for Treating Cancer

A UW-Madison researcher and colleagues have developed methods of using probiotic bacteria engineered to express IL-22 or IFN-β, alone or in combination with an immune checkpoint therapy and/or an irr...
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Jan Peter Van Pijkeren, Joel Greenberger, Michael Epperly, Amitava Mukherjee | P240261US02

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Cyclic Peptide-Based Lysosome Targeting Degraders

UW-Madison researchers have developed a protein degrader that shuttles targeted extracellular protein into the lysosome using a cyclic peptide that binds to a cellular receptor attached to a binding m...
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Weiping Tang, Yaxian Zhou, Yuan Zhao | P220339US02

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A UW-Madison researcher has developed an oral combination therapy for treating fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) that utilizes a CDK7 inhibitor and a CDK9 inhibitor. The researcher created a cancer cell l...
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Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly | P240225US02

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Virus-Free CRISPR Car Natural Killer Cells

UW-Madison researchers have developed a non-viral method of developing CAR NK cells. The inventors tested many parameters along established processes for genetically modifying immune cells without vir...
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Krishanu Saha, Keerthana Shankar | P240105US02

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Single-Domain Antibodies And Variants Thereof Against Met

UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel camelid antibody against the cancer target cMET. As cMET is overexpressed on many tumors, this antibody may be useful for imaging tumors and/or delivering...
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Andrew Baschnagel, Randall Kimple, Reinier Hernandez, Aaron LeBeau | P230175US02

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Cyclic Peptide-Based Lysosome Targeting Degraders

UW-Madison researchers have developed a protein degrader that shuttles targeted extracellular protein into the lysosome using a cyclic peptide that binds to a cellular receptor attached to a binding m...
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Weiping Tang, Yaxian Zhou, Yuan Zhao | P220339WO01

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UW researchers have identified a molecule commonly used as a vaccine adjuvant to add to the combination of radiation therapy and checkpoint inhibitor treatment to drive the immune system’s response ...
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Zachary Morris, Justin Jagodinsky | P220308WO01

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