Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Technology

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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COLD-ADAPTED, LIVE ATTENUATED SARS-COV-2 VACCINE

The present invention relates to cold-adapted SARS-CoV-2 viruses created and being characterized by Dr. Kawaoka’s team at U. Tokyo. The researchers have passaged the isolate (SARS-CoV-2/UW-001/Human...
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Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Seiya Yamayoshi, Satoshi Kamakura | P210139US04

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SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AMYLOID BETA OLIGOMER BINDERS

UW-Madison researchers have developed a new way to select protein and cyclic peptide binders of amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers. This innovation uses a transcription factor that the inventors previously en...
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Tina Wang, Byung Uk Lee | P240145US02

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DEGRADATION TARGETING AGENTS AND USES THEREOF

UW-Madison researchers have discovered two peptides, HLTF;zf-C3HC4 and RO52;zf-C3HC4 (hereafter referred to as the HLTF peptide and the RO52 peptide) which, when tethered to a protein induce degradati...
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Gaelen Hess, Grace Boyum | P250015US03

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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

Technology

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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