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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2006
David J. Mooney, Sudbury, MA (US);
Omar Abdel-rahman Ali, Bloomington, MN (US);
Eduardo Alexandre Barros E Silva, Somerville, MA (US);
Hyun Joon Kong, Cambridge, MA (US);
Elliott Earl Hill, Jr., Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Tanyarut Boontheekul, Bangkok, TH;
David J. Mooney, Sudbury, MA (US);
Omar Abdel-Rahman Ali, Bloomington, MN (US);
Eduardo Alexandre Barros e Silva, Somerville, MA (US);
Hyun Joon Kong, Cambridge, MA (US);
Elliott Earl Hill, Jr., Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Tanyarut Boontheekul, Bangkok, TH;
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A device that includes a scaffold composition and a bioactive composition with the bioactive composition being incorporated into or coated onto the scaffold composition such that the scaffold composition and/or a bioactive composition controls egress of a resident cell or progeny thereof. The devices mediate active recruitment, modification, and release of host cells from the material.