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VEViD: Vision Enhancement via Virtual Diffraction and Coherent Detection (Case No. 2023-083)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed an innovative approach to improve image quality when lighting conditions are suboptimal, that can be readily integrated with different machine learning techniques for more accurate object and face recognition. Background: The computer vision market size was valued...

Published: 12/2/2024 | Inventor(s): Bahram Jalali, Callen MacPhee

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Category(s): Electrical, Electrical > Signal Processing, Software & Algorithms, Software & Algorithms > Image Processing, Software & Algorithms > Security & Privacy, Optics & Photonics, Electrical > Displays, Electrical > Imaging, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Microscopy And Imaging, Software & Algorithms > Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Identification of a Factor That Rescues Dysregulated Endocytosis in Cultured Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells (UCLA Case No. 2023-051)

UCLA researchers in the Departments of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology have developed a novel method to enhance the function of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to improve the transplantability of ex vivo expanded human HSCs in clinical settings. BACKGROUND: Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), present in blood and bone marrow, can form mature...

Published: 10/3/2024 | Inventor(s): Hanna Mikkola, Julia Aguade Gorgorio

Keywords(s): bone marrow, bone marrow transplants, CRISPR, endocytosis, engraftment, environmental sensing, hematopoietic stem cells, leukemia, MLLT3, MYCT1, transplantability

Category(s): Therapeutics > Hematology, Life Science Research Tools, Therapeutics > Stem Cells And Regenerative Medicine

Functional Enrichment and Purification of a Therapeutically Superior Population of Cells (Case No. 2024-024)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Departments of Bioengineering and Biological Chemistry have developed a method for identifying and enriching therapeutically useful cell sub-populations based on their secretions (SEC-seq). Background: Cell function is defined by a myriad of biomolecules that they secrete; over 3 thousand proteins are estimated to...

Published: 9/11/2024 | Inventor(s): Dino Di Carlo, Kathrin Plath, Shreya Udani, Justin Langerman

Keywords(s): Cell Surface Receptor, Cytometry, Flow Cytometry, Functional Genomics, High-Throughput Screening, hydrogel, Microfluidics, single cell analysis, Therapeutics

Category(s): Therapeutics > Immunology And Immunotherapy, Therapeutics, Therapeutics > Oncology > Oncology Immunotherapy, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Research Methods, Diagnostic Markers > Targets And Assays, Therapeutics > Cell Therapy

Augmentations to Lentiviral Vectors to Increase Expression (UCLA Case No. 2019-616)

UCLA researchers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics have developed a novel method to produce short lentiviral vectors with tissue-specific expression, with a primary focus on lentiviral vectors for treating sickle cell disease and other disorders of hemoglobin. BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the...

Published: 8/14/2024 | Inventor(s): Donald Kohn, Roger Hollis, Richard Morgan

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Category(s): Therapeutics > Gene Therapy And Editing, Life Science Research Tools, Therapeutics > Genetic Diseases

Identifying Desirable T Lymphocytes by Change in Mass Responses (Case No. 2013-183)

Summary: UCLA researchers from the Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine have developed a novel method for the identification of T lymphocytes using live cell interferometry Background: The identification of T cell receptors (TCRs) that are specific to antigens is crucial for advancing various immunotherapies. Existing methods of characterizing...

Published: 8/15/2024 | Inventor(s): Michael Teitell, Owen Witte, Thomas Zangle, Daina Burnes Linton

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Category(s): Therapeutics, Therapeutics > Immunology And Immunotherapy, Therapeutics > Autoimmune, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Research Methods, Life Science Research Tools > Lab Equipment

Human T-Cell Receptors Targeting Tumor-Enhanced Splicing Epitopes on HLA-A for Small Cell Carcinoma (UCLA Case Nos. 2023-117, 2020-817)

UCLA Researchers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics have utilized their previously developed computational method (IRIS), to process and capture small cell carcinoma-specific RNA splicing events in small cell cancer. These events and associated epitopes were then used as the basis for generating new T cell receptors...

Published: 10/4/2024 | Inventor(s): Owen Witte

Keywords(s): alternative splicing, Cancer, prostate cancer, RNA splicing, small cell, small cell cancer, small cell lung cancer, small cell prostate cancer, Targets And Assays

Category(s): Life Science Research Tools

Development of Novel Compounds to Suppress Neuronal Stress and Cross the Blood Brain Barrier (UCLA Case No. 2021-165)

SUMMARY: An interdisciplinary group of UCLA researchers have developed and validated a library of compounds that alleviate symptoms of Rett Syndrome and hold enormous therapeutic potential for the long-term treatment of other intellectual disability syndromes. BACKGROUND: Intellectual disability (ID) affects more than 100 million people globally and...

Published: 5/8/2024 | Inventor(s): William Lowry, Michael Jung, Xiaoguang Liu, Elena Korsakova

Keywords(s): blood-brain barrier, Drug, intellectual disability, Organoids, senescence

Category(s): Therapeutics > CNS and Neurology, Life Science Research Tools, Diagnostic Markers > Targets And Assays

1-Micron Frequency Comb OCT System (Case No. 2023-036)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a new optical coherence tomography system for clinical imaging applications. Background: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that is used in many clinical settings. OCT is used in ophthalmology to visualize layers...

Published: 3/20/2024 | Inventor(s): Chee Wei Wong, Tristan Melton, James McMillan

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Category(s): Electrical, Electrical > Imaging, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Microscopy And Imaging, Life Science Research Tools > Animal Imaging, Mechanical, Mechanical > Instrumentation

Targeted Delivery of IFN-gamma Using Antibody Fusion Proteins (UCLA Case No. 2017-543)

UCLA researchers in the Departments of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics (MIMG) and Medicine have developed antibody–cytokine fusion proteins that enable the targeted delivery of active interferon-gamma (IFNγ) for cancer treatment. Interferon-gamma (IFNγ), a type II interferon, is a cytokine released by both natural...

Published: 2/26/2024 | Inventor(s): Sherie Morrison, John Timmerman, Kham (Ryan) Trinh

Keywords(s): Antibody Delivery Platforms, Drug Delivery, Immunotherapy, Life Science Research Tools, Therapeutics & Vaccines

Category(s): Therapeutics, Platforms > Drug Delivery, Platforms > Drug Delivery > Antibody Delivery Platforms, Life Science Research Tools, Therapeutics > Immunology And Immunotherapy

Antitumor activity of NKTR-214 alone or in combination with anti-PD-1 therapy in tumors resistant to anti-PD-1 (UCLA Case No. 2019-254)

UCLA researchers have discovered a therapy for anti-PD-1 resistant tumors in colon carcinoma patients. A small molecule therapeutic alone or in combination with immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy exhibits tumor remission even in sublines with mutated signalling pathways that have rendered them ICB resistant. BACKGROUND: Immunotherapy, the...

Published: 2/15/2024 | Inventor(s): Antoni Ribas

Keywords(s): Colon carcinoma, Immune checkpoint blockade, Immunotherapy, Oncology, Oncology (Small Molecules, Peptides and Antibodies), PD-1, PD-L1, Resistant tumors, Signaling pathways, Small molecule therapeutics, Tumor

Category(s): Life Science Research Tools, Therapeutics > Oncology > Oncology Immunotherapy, Therapeutics > Oncology > Oncology (Small Molecules)

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