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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2021
Applicant:
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Inventors:
David L. Kaplan, Concord, MA (US);
Krishna Kumar, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vittorio Montanari, Medford, MA (US);
Morgan Hawker, Clovis, CA (US);
Julia Fountain, Medford, MA (US);
Junqi Wu, Medford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/17 (2006.01); C08H 1/00 (2006.01); C08L 89/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/1767 (2013.01); C08H 1/00 (2013.01); C08L 89/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to compositions, methods of making, and methods of using a modified silk-based composition having a selectively tunable hydrophobicity. The provided compositions include silk fibroin having a haloalkyl substituent. The haloalkyl substituent is coupled to an amino acid of the silk fibroin though a linking agent.