Years active
2000 – 2009
Total patents
4
Most recent
2009
Frequent collaborator
Manuel Baca
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4
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4 patents, 2000–2009
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How Engineered Antibodies Target TGF-beta Proteins to Fight Cancer
This patent describes specific engineered antibodies, made from mouse and human parts, designed to block TGF-beta proteins to help treat various cancers like breast or lung cancer.
How to Redesign Mouse Antibodies for Safe Use in Humans
Genentech's 1995 patent on a systematic method for humanizing rodent antibodies by grafting their disease-targeting loops onto a human consensus framework while carefully swapping key structural support residues to maintain binding strength.
How Genentech Engineered Antibodies to Starve Tumors of Blood
A 2007 Genentech patent describing specific lab-made antibodies that block a protein called VEGF, which tumors use to grow new blood vessels.
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