TEL AVIV, Israel, June 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Patent Covers Any Device Using Cellect’s Flagship Technology - the ApoGraft™
PROVIDES COMMERCIAL PROTECTION FOR FIRST-IN-KIND DEVICES FOR SINGLE-STEP STEM CELL SELECTION REPLACING HIGH-COST AND COMPLEX PROCEESES USED TODAY
Devices using ApoGraft™ are intended for use in a wide range of applications including Bone Marrow Transplants and other immune related medical conditions such as Diabetes type I, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.
Cellect Biotechnology Ltd. (Nasdaq: APOP; TASE: APOP), a developer of stem cells isolation technology, announced today that it has received a formal notice of allowance for a patent (Application No. 14/383,288) covering a key composition of matter and method of use. Similar to the patents granted previously, the current patent significantly enhances Cellect’s protection of its core technology and its commercial applications by covering the various devices using the ApoGraft for selection of stem cells.
The device is designed to enable single step cell selection in a simplified setting by an off-the-shelf product - a solution that currently does not exist and covering a wide range of unmet medical needs.
The devices covered by the patent are essentially containers (a bag, column, tube, bottle, vial, flask or bioreactor) comprised of a biocompatible material and a biologically active apoptosis-inducing ligand immobilized to a surface in the inner side of the container. The device is adapted to cell selection of apoptosis-sensitive cells. Specifically, the patent is expected to give the Company full protection against any devices that make use of apoptosis for cell selection and is also expect to protect the method for using the device.
Such devices, if successfully developed and approved, may enable selection of stem-cells and are expected to reduce fatal inflammatory responses such as graft versus host disease (GvHD) associated with stem cell transplantations.
Dr. Shai Yarkoni, CEO, commented, “This patent is a fundamental base for the future commercialization of our global business. Cellect has seven families of patents and patent applications to protect its core assets for enabling stem cell regenerative medicine. With this patent, we believe that Cellect has the opportunity to diversify its pipeline and open up new commercialization routes for additional market segments.”
About Cellect Biotechnology Ltd.
Cellect Biotechnology is traded on both the NASDAQ and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NASDAQ: “APOP”, “APOPW”, TASE: “APOP”). The Company has developed a novel technology designed to isolate stem cells from any given tissue, a technology that aims to improve a variety of stem cells applications.
The Company’s technology is intended to provide pharma companies, medical research centers and hospitals with the tools to rapidly isolate stem cells for in quantity and quality that will allow stems cell related treatments and procedures. Cellect’s technology may be applicable to a wide variety of stem cells related treatments in regenerative medicine and that current clinical trials are aimed at the cancer treatment of bone marrow transplantations.
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Cellect Biotechnology Ltd.
Eyal Leibovitz, Chief Financial Officer
http://www.cellect.co
+972-9-974-1444
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