Companies, Licensing and Patents
View information on the companies, licensing and patents that are associated with the commercial development area of the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology.
Companies
PHIOGEN Inc.
Founded by Anthony Maresso, Ph.D., in 2023, PHIOGEN Inc. aims to commercialize technology from TAILOR Labs, the personalized phage therapy center at 糖心视频 of Medicine. Based at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Hub, PHIOGEN's team leverages over a decade of phage biology research to create next-generation therapeutics. An exclusive license agreement was signed in 2023.
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Twister Biotechnology Inc.
Formed by Lynn Zechiedrich, Ph.D., to provide services and reagents involving the custom production of DNA minivectors to meet customer specifications. Exclusive license agreement signed 2011.
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Speratum CR, SA
Formed by Christian Marin-Mueller, Ph.D., a former graduate student in lab of Qizhi 鈥淐athy鈥 Yao, M.D., Ph.D., to develop an miRNA 198-based therapeutic approach to the treatment of pancreatic cancer and other malignancies. Exclusive license agreement signed 2015.
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Licensing
ImmuCell
Years of basic research on rotavirus and vaccine candidate virus-like particles by Dr. Mary Estes, Dr. Sue Crawford, Dr. Margaret E. Conner, Dr. Sarah E. Blutt and others leads to a licensing agreement with ImmuCell and theto protect newborn calves from the diarrhea-causing disease.
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Takeda Pharmaceuticals
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Patents
Patents applied for and awarded to our faculty.
| Assignee | Inventor / Author | Publication Date | Priority Date | Filing / Creation Date | Grant Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 糖心视频 of Medicine, International Business Machines Corp, University of Texas System | Ying Chen, Linda H. Kato, Jacques J. Labrie, Meenakshi Nagarajan, William Scott Spangler, Ioana R. Stanoi, Anbu Karani Adikesavan, Benjamin J. Bachman, Lawrence A. Donehower, Olivier Lichtarge, Sam J. Regenbogen, Maria E. Terron-Diaz, Angela D. Wilkins, Curtis R. Pickering | 12/8/2014 | 12/8/2014 | 2/6/2018 | 2/6/2018 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine, International Business Machines Corp, University of Texas System | Meenakshi Nagarajan, William Scott Spangler, Benjamin J. Bachman, Lawrence A. Donehower, Olivier Lichtarge, Sam J. Regenbogen, Angela D. Wilkins, Curtis R. Pickering | 12/8/2014 | 3/16/2016 | 8/1/2017 | 8/1/2017 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine, Regents of the University Of California | E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Jonathan Fogg, John Perona | 6/10/2005 | 6/7/2006 | 11/24/2009 | 11/24/2009 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, Xi Jiang, David Y. Graham | 9/13/2005 | 11/8/1989 | 12/9/2002 | 9/13/2005 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, Judith M. Ball, Peng Tian | 1/6/2004 | 6/14/1995 | 11/3/2000 | 1/6/2004 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes | 3/18/2003 | 10/14/1999 | 10/13/2000 | 3/18/2003 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K Estes, Margaret E Conner | 7/10/1992 | 7/12/1993 | 5/1/2002 | 5/1/2002 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, Judith Ball, Peng Tien | 4/3/2001 | 6/14/1995 | 6/14/1996 | 4/3/2001 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | James R. Lupski, Robert A. Britton, Donald L. Court, Bradford S. Powell | 8/20/1996 | 8/20/1997 | 10/17/2000 | 10/17/2000 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes | 11/24/1998 | 12/30/1986 | 6/7/1995 | 11/24/1998 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes | 10/27/1998 | 12/30/1986 | 6/7/1995 | 10/27/1998 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Robert F. Ramig, Dayue Chen | 6/1/1994 | 6/1/1994 | 3/25/1997 | 3/25/1997 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Lawrence A. Donehower, Allan Bradley, Janet S. Butel, Betty Slagle | 1/4/1991 | 7/21/1994 | 10/29/1996 | 10/29/1996 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, Xi Jiang, David Y. Graham | 9/24/1996 | 11/8/1989 | 6/7/1995 | 9/24/1996 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Gordon R. Dreesman, James T. Sparrow, Darrell L. Peterson, Frederick B. Hollinger, Joseph L. Melnick | 1/7/1987 | 11/23/1987 | 10/18/1988 | 10/18/1988 |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Jonathan Fogg, Daniel James Catanese, Erol Bakkalbasi, Brian E. Gilbert | 10/16/2009 | 11/1/2016 | 3/9/2017 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, David Graham, Robert Legare Atmar, Sue Ellen Crawford, Khalil Ettayebi, Kosuke Murakami | 4/6/2017 | 10/2/2015 | 10/3/2016 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, Robert Legare Atmar, B V Venkatar Prasad, James Crowe, Gopal Sapparapu | 1/19/2017 | 7/10/2015 | 7/11/2016 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Jonathan Fogg, Daniel James Catanese, Jr., Nancy Maizel, Olivier Humbert | 12/30/2015 | 5/30/2012 | 5/30/2013 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Timothy Gerald Palzkill, Mary K. Estes, Robert Legare Atmar, Jennifer Dawn Rogers, Nadim Jose Ajami | 3/3/2016 | 3/21/2013 | 3/21/2014 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Michelle C. Swick, Richard S. Sucgang | 2/1/2011 | 2/1/2012 | 1/30/2014 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Jonathan Fogg, Daniel James Catanese, Erol Bakkalbasi, Brian E. Gilbert | 10/16/2009 | 3/7/2012 | 4/4/2013 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Timothy Palzkill, Wanzhi Huang, Mary K. Estes | 1/26/2012 | 1/26/2009 | 1/26/2010 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K Estes, David Y Graham, Xi Jiang | 9/3/2002 | 11/8/1989 | 12/28/2001 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine, Mary K. Estes, Judith M. Ball, Peng Tian | Mary K. Estes, Judith M. Ball, Peng Tian | 5/10/2002 | 11/3/2000 | 11/2/2001 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | C. Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova, John W. Belmont, J. Wade Harper, Andrew Rice, Janet S. Butel, Javier Chinen | 3/6/1995 | 3/4/1996 | 9/19/1996 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Janet S. Butel, Teh-Hsiu Lee, Stephen J. Elledge | 10/12/1993 | 10/12/1994 | 4/20/1995 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | David O. Matson, Mary K. Estes, Xi Jiang, David Y. Graham | 3/17/1994 | 9/7/1992 | 9/7/1993 | |
| Mary K. Estes, Margaret E. Conner, 糖心视频 of Medicine | Mary K. Estes, Margaret E. Conner | 1/20/1994 | 7/10/1992 | 7/12/1993 | |
| 糖心视频 of Medicine | Lawrence A. Donehower, Allan Bradley, Janet S. Butel, Betty Slagle | 1/4/1991 | 1/3/1992 | 7/23/1992 | |
| Lawrence A. Donehower, Allan Bradley, Janet S. Butel, Betty Slagle, 糖心视频 Of Medicine | Lawrence A. Donehower, Allan Bradley, Janet S. Butel, Betty Slagle | 1/4/1991 | 1/3/1992 | 7/5/1992 |