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Universal donor cells and related methods

Grant US12576142B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

ViaCyte, Inc.

Inventors

Anindita Bhoumik, Alan D. Agulnick, Kevin Allen D'Amour

Abstract

Disclosed herein are universal donor stem cells and cells derived therefrom and related methods of their use and production. The universal donor stem cells disclosed herein are useful for overcoming allogeneic immune rejection in cell-based transplantation therapies. In certain embodiments, the universal donor cells disclosed herein are pancreatic endoderm cells that do not express one or more MHC-Class I cell-surface proteins and whose expression of at least one NK activating ligand is disrupted or inhibited.

CPC Classifications

A61K 35/39

Filing Date

2023-09-21

Application No.

18472072

Claims

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