University of California

David J Looney

Flossie Wong-Staal

Eric M Poeschla

The invention provides non-primate lentiviral vectors, packaging cells and packaging plasmids based, for example, on feline and ungulate retroviruses. In particular, the packaging plasmids are designed for expression in human cells (which are also used as packaging cells). The vectors of the invention transduce human cells, including difficult to target non-dividing cells of the hematopoietic and nervous system, in vitro and in vivo. The vectors are suitable for general gene transfer to these cells and for gene therapy to treat conditions mediated by these non-dividing cells including cancer and HIV infection.

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Encinitas, CA, United States of America

David J Looney