Conditionally immortalized long-term stem cells and methods of making and using such cells

US9796961B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• The Regents of the University of Colorado · US
• National Jewish Health · US

Inventors

• John C. Cambier · Denver, US
• Yosef Refaeli · Denver, US
• Sara Ann Johnson · Cambridge, US
• Brian Curtis Turner · Denver, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 24, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N2740/16322
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed are methods for conditionally immortalizing stem cells, including adult and embryonic stem cells, the cells produced by such methods, therapeutic and laboratory or research methods of using such cells, and methods to identify compounds related to cell differentiation and development or to treat diseases, using such cells. A mouse model of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and cells and methods related to such mouse model are also described.