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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2008
Applicants:
David J. Mooney, Sudbury, MA (US);
Omar Abdel-rahman Ali, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
David J. Mooney, Sudbury, MA (US);
Omar Abdel-Rahman Ali, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 27/54 (2006.01); A61L 27/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 27/54 (2013.01); A61L 27/50 (2013.01); A61L 2300/252 (2013.01); A61L 2300/404 (2013.01); A61L 2300/44 (2013.01); A61L 2300/45 (2013.01); A61L 2300/64 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device that includes a scaffold composition and a bioactive composition with the bioactive composition being incorporated therein or thereon, or diffusing from the scaffold composition such that the scaffold composition and/or a bioactive composition captures and eliminates undesirable cells from the body a mammalian subject. The devices mediate active recruitment, sequestration, and removal or elimination of undesirable cells from their host.