Royalty Report: Drugs, Biotechnology, Cancer – Collection: 26064

License Grant

Licensor, Chief Scientific Officer of Licensee, hereby grants to Licensee and its Affiliates during the Term an exclusive, worldwide, royalty bearing license, with the right to grant sublicenses through multiple tiers of sublicenses, in and to, the Technology, Licensed Products, Licensed Improvements, and Patents; and to develop, distribute, market, make, have made, use, have used, sell, have sold, offer for sale, and import Licensed Products.
Sublicenses – In the event that Licensee sublicenses any of its rights hereunder to a Sublicense, such sublicense shall include terms and conditions consistent with the terms and conditions of the license granted under this Agreement Sublicenses, if any, granted hereunder, will be to Third Parties in an arm's length transaction under written agreements, copies of which will be provided to Licensor.

License Property

Licensed Technology – Ex Vivo Expansion of Cord Blood Cells Work has demonstrated that cells present in the CB mononuclear (MNC) fraction inhibit ex vivo expansion of the CD34+ cells. This inhibition can be overcome by co-culture on mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and clinical studies are being undertaken to evaluate the potential of CB MNC cultured on MSC for 2 weeks.
The Company has evaluated the effects of removal of various mature cells by immvno selection and the depleted cells failed to expand. More recently we have evaluated the removal of red blood cells and have positive data for optimal removal of red cells and preliminary evidence that the red cell depleted products may expand up to 500 fold. This approach has a number of advantages including the passive removal of inhibitory cells which has minimal effect on total CD34+ cells. Future studies are required to generate data on the expansion potential of the depleted CB products, and this work will include proof of principle expo performed with frozen CB products to mimic the clinical setting.
The red cell depletion results in recovery of approx. 50 million white cells which would only be a cell dose 0.1 x 107 TNCI & With an expansion of only 100 fold this would result in a cell dose of 10.0 x 10' ThC/kg. Therefore an expansion of 500 fold would be sufficient for all adult patients to achieve a cell dose in the range of 10.0 x 107 TNC/kg, therefore making CB transplantation available to potential patients. In comparison, CD34 selection for expansion results in approx. 5 million cells post selection and would require an expansion of 1,000 fold or more to achieve similar cell doses. No studies have reported these levels of expansion consistently.

Field of Use

Licensee is engaged in research and development of stem cells, cord blood banking and expansion laboratory services and interested in developing and commercializing the Technology.

License Grant

Licensor, Chief Scientific Officer of Licensee, hereby grants to Licensee and its Affiliates during the Term an exclusive, worldwide, royalty bearing license, with the right to grant sublicenses through multiple tiers of sublicenses, in and to, the Technology, Licensed Products, Licensed Improvements, and Patents; and to develop, distribute, market, make, have made, use, have used, sell, have sold, offer for sale, and import Licensed Products.

License Property

Licensed Technology Primary human cells that secrete factors inhibiting tumor cell proliferation.

Recent experiments have led to the identification of a novel source of primary human cells that secrete a factor capable of inhibiting tumor cell growth. Co culture of tumor cell lines with these human cells results in inhibition of proliferation of the tumor cells and ultimate death. Further media conditioned by the primary human cells also inhibits proliferation of the tumor cells lines and death of the cells. The technology consists of methods for isolation and propagation of the primary human cells, gene profiles obtained from the cells identifying candidate micro RNAs and growth factor genes, and methods for generating media conditioned by these cells for isolation of the inhibitory factor(s).

This technology offers the potential to identify molecules that can kill tumor cells and further provides insight into the potential use of cells for delivery of these inhibitory factors in vivio.

Field of Use

The Licensee is a biotechnology company engaged in the discovery and development of cell therapeutic products and is developing pre-clinical-stage therapeutic agents and treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart, lung, and kidney diseases as well as for bone marrow and organ transplants. The Licensee's discoveries involve cell treatments.

License Grant

The Licensee obtained a non-exclusive License to distribute human embryonic stem cell lines made by the Licensor through stem cell banks.

License Property

The term “stem cells” describe all of the cells that can give rise to the different cells found in tissues.  Cells from the same pluripotent stem cells can be used in any patient. This type of cell therapy is referred to as “allogeneic”. This permits the use of a single master stem cell bank in the manufacturing of the therapeutic doses to be used such that one uniform source of starting cells can be readily controlled for consistency, lack of infectious agents and cleared by regulatory agencies.

License Grant

The Licensee entered into a royalty Agreement with the Licensor and received the following assets from the Licensor

License Property

Certain patents and patent applications and all related active prosecution cases, trade secrets, know-how and certain other intellectual property rights, and all of the Licensor's goodwill with respect to the technology directly related to the research, development and commercialization of certain products and know-how related to hES cells;

Certain biological materials and reagents (including master and working cell banks, original and seed banks, and research, pilot and GMP grade lots and finished product);

Certain regulatory filings for clinical trials for GRNOPC-I for spinal cord injury, including the investigational new drug applications filed with the United States Food and Drug Administration for Licensor’s Phase I safety study of oligodendrocyte progenitor (GRNOPC-1) cells in patients with neurologically complete, subacute spinal cord injury (Protocol No. CP35A007), and long term follow up of subjects who received GRNOPC1 (Protocol No. CP35A008), and the clinical trial for VAC1 for acute myelogenous leukemia, including a Phase I/II study of active immunotherapy with GRNVAC1, autologous mature dendritic cells transfected with mRNA encoding human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in complete remission (Protocol No. CP06-151).

US Patent 6,800,480 – Methods and Materials for the Growth of Primate-Derived Primordial Stem Cells in Feeder-Free Culture
US Patent 7,413,902 – Feeder-Free Culture Method for Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,440,735 – Dendritic Cell Vaccine Containing Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase for the Treatment of Cancer
US Patent 7,402,307 – Method for Identifying and Killing Cancer Cells
US Patent 7,824,849 – Cellular Telomerase Vaccine and Its Use for Treating Cancer
US Patent 7,560,281 – Use of TGF Beta Superfamily Antagonists to Make Dopaminergic Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,252,586 – Neural Cell Populations from Primate Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 8,153,428 – Use of TGF Beta Superfamily Antagonists and Neurotrophins to Make Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,667,176 – cDNA Libraries Reflecting Gene Expression During Growth and Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 7,041,438 – Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Drug Screening and Toxicity Testing
US Patent 7,413,904 – Embryonic Stem Cells Having Genetic Modifications
US Patent 7,410,798 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,297,539 – Medium for Growing Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,455,983 – Medium for Growing Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,097,458 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,642,048 – Conditioned Media for Propagating Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 6,458,589 – Hepatocyte Lineage Cells Derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 6,506,574 – Hepatocyte Lineage Cells Derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 7,256,042 – Process for Making Hepatocytes from Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 7,282,366 – Hepatocytes for Therapy and Drug Screening Made From Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,473,555 – Protocols for Making Hepatocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,148,151 – Differentiation of Primate Pluripotent Cells to Hepatocyte-Lineage Cells
US Patent 6,833,269 – Making Neural Cells for Human Therapy or Drug Screening from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,148,148 – Neural Progenitor Cell Populations
US Patent 8,252,585 – Neural Progenitor Cell Populations
US Patent 7,250,294 – Screening Small Molecule Drugs Using Neural Cells Differentiated from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,763,463 – Use of Cyclic AMP and Ascorbic Acid to Produce Dopaminergic Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,576,464 – Differentiated Cells Suitable For Human Therapy
US Patent 6,921,665 – Selective Antibody Targeting of Undifferentiated Stem Cells
US Patent 7,732,199 – Process for Making Transplantable Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,763,464 – Differentiation Protocol for Making Human Cardiomyocytes
US Patent 7,452,718 – Direct Differentiation Method for Making Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,897,389 – Direct Differentiation Method for Making Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,851,167 – Differentiation Protocol for Making Human Cardiomyocytes

US Patent Application 13/561,296 – Neural Cell Populations from Primate Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent Application 12/170,219 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 12/710,078 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 13/323,567 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 11/917,993 – Suspension Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 12/277,136 – Protocols for Making Hepatocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 13/558,078 – Neural Progenitor Cell Populations
US Patent Application 11/359,341 – Differentiated Cells Suitable For Human Therapy
US Patent Application 11/471,916 – Differentiation of Primate Pluripotent Stem Cells to Cardiomyocyte-Lineage Cells

Field of Use

The Licensee is a biotechnology company focused on the emerging field of regenerative medicine, with core technologies centered on stem cells capable of becoming all of the cell types in the human body, a property called pluripotency.

License Grant

The Licensor grants the Licensee an exclusive, royalty bearing License under the Licensed Rights and Licensed Patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import and export adipose-derived stem and regenerative cell based treatments and therapies for Autoimmune Diseases, throughout the United States and its territories.

License Property

The Licensor is the owner of all right, title and interest in and to United States patent No. 8,241,621, entitled Stem Cell Mediated Treg Activation and related rights.

Field of Use

The Licensee is engaged in the business of adipose-derived stem and regenerative cell based therapies.