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METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING BRAIN DISEASES

Application US20260083862A1 Kind: A1 Mar 26, 2026

Assignee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Inventors

Beverly L. Davidson, Luis Tecedor, Yong Hong Chen

Abstract

The present disclosure provides methods of treating a disease or delivering a therapeutic agent to a mammal comprising administering to the mammal's cisterna magna and/or ventricle an rAAV particle containing a vector comprising a nucleic acid encoding a therapeutic protein inserted between a pair of AAV inverted terminal repeats in a manner such that cells with access to the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) express the therapeutic agent and in certain embodiments secretes the therapeutic agent into the CSF for distribution to the brain.

CPC Classifications

A61K 48/0058 A61K 31/343 A61K 48/0075 A61K 48/00 C12N 2750/14143

Filing Date

2025-05-19

Application No.

19212269