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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Humacyte, Inc., Research Triangle, NC (US);
Shannon L. M. Dahl, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Laura E. Niklason, Greenwich, CT (US);
Juliana Blum, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Justin T. Strader, Cary, NC (US);
William E. Tente, Seekonk, MA (US);
Heather L. Prichard, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Joseph J. Lundquist, Durham, NC (US);
Humacyte, Inc., Morrisville, NC (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides constructs including a tubular biodegradable polyglycolic acid scaffold, wherein the scaffold may be coated with extracellular matrix proteins and substantially acellular. The constructs can be utilized as an arteriovenous graft, a coronary graft, a peripheral artery bypass conduit, or a urinary conduit. The present invention also provides methods of producing such constructs.