Patents Recently Issued at Vanderbilt (4/17/09)


An Acoustic Source Localization System and Applications of the Same
(U.S. Patent #7,433,266)
Gyorgy Balogh           Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Akos Ledeczi            Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Miklos Maroti           Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Gyula Simon             Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Assays for Novel Serotonin Transporter (Sert) Blockers
(U.S. Patent #7,439,039)
Erika Adkins            Pharmacology
Randy Blakely           Pharmacology
Keith Henry             Pharmacology

Cell Lines and Host Nucleic Acid Sequences Related to Infectious Disease
(Indian Patent #221977)
Donald Rubin            Medicine

Combined Raman Spectroscopy Optical Coherence Tomography (RS OCT) System and Applications of the Same
(U.S. Patent #7,508,524)
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen  Biomedical Engineering
Chetan Patil            Biomedical Engineering

Device and Methods for Monitoring the Status of at Least One Cell
(U.S. Patent #7,435,578)
Franz Baudenbacher      Biomedical Engineering
Owen McGuinness         Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
John Wikswo, Jr.        Physics & Astronomy

GBS Toxin Receptor Antibodies
(U.S. Patent #7,410,640)
Changlin Fu             Biochemistry
Carl Hellerqvist        Biochemistry

In Vivo Panning for Ligands to Radiation Induced Molecules
(U.S. Patent #7,402,392)
Dennis Hallahan         Radiation Oncology
Shimian Qu              Radiation Oncology

Indoleacetic Acid and Indenacetic Acid Derivatives as Therapeutic Agents with Reduced Gastrointestinal Toxicity
(U.S. Patent #7,491,744)
Andrew Felts            Chemistry
Chuan Ji                Biochemistry
Lawrence Marnett        Biochemistry
Jeffrey Prusakiewicz    Biochemistry

Live Attenuated Coronavirus Vaccines
(U.S. Patent #7,452,542)
Mark Denison            Pediatrics

Methods for Preventing of Attenuating Pathoangiogenic Conditions
(Chinese Patent #ZL 01800599.3)
Carl Hellerqvist        Biochemistry

Mouse Models of Prostate Cancer Development and Metastasis through Expression of a Hepsin Transgene
(U.S. Patent #7,491,865)
Robert Matusik          Urologic Surgery

Pro Apoptotic Bacterial Vaccines to Enhance Cellular Immune Responses
(Japanese Patent #4197614)
Douglas Kernodle        Infectious Disease

Purified Vacuolating Toxin from Helicobacter Pylori and Methods to Use Same
(Canadian Patent #2,117,490)
Martin Blaser           Microbiology & Immunology
Timothy Cover           Infectious Disease

Selective Cox 2 Inhibitory Novel Esters from Indolealkanols and Novel Amides from Indolealkylamines
(Chinese Patent #00814912.7)
Amit Kalgutkar          Biochemistry
Lawrence Marnett        Biochemistry

Steroid Receptor Binding Compositions and Steroid Sparing Preparations Thereof In Immuno Suppression and Inflammation
(Canadian Patent #2,268,099)
William Kovacs          Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Peter Lipsky            Internal Medicine
Nancy Olsen             Rheumatology

System and Methods of Nonuniform Data Sampling and Data Reconstruction in Shift Invariant and Wavelet Spaces
(U.S. Patent #7,496,619)
Akram Aldroubi          Mathematics

System and Methods of Organ Segmentation and Applications of Same
(U.S. Patent #7,519,209)
Zhujiang Cao            Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Benoit Dawant           Electrical Engineering & Computer Science