by | Jan 13, 2026 | Brestoff Parker, Jonathan, Diamond, Michael, Jia, Wentong
— Published date: 1/14/2026
Value Proposition: Novel target for therapeutic treatment of obesity and related metabolic diseases.
Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a therapeutic targeting MXRA8 to treat obesity and associated metabolic disea…
by | Dec 19, 2024 | Chheda, Milan, Curiel, David, Diamond, Michael, Li, Yuping
— Published Date: 12/20/2024
Value Proposition: Treats brain tumors by combining a hematopoietic growth protein and cancer therapeutics to increase survival rates.
Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new way to treat brain cancers by combining…
by | Feb 13, 2024 | Chheda, Milan, Diamond, Michael, Gorman, Matthew
— T-017429 Engineered Oncolytic Zika Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma
Technology Description
Researchers in the laboratories of Michael Diamond and Milan Chheda at Washington University have developed prospective treatments for glioblastoma (GBM) through the application of an engineered Zika virus (ZI…
by | Apr 29, 2021 | Adams, Lucas, Diamond, Michael, Fremont, Daved, VanBlargan, Laura
— Disease indication – SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
Drug format – Chimeric monoclonal antibody
Drug class – Best-in-class
Research stage and Preliminary data – The inventors have developed and characterized this antibody, creating a chimeric version with a human IgG backbone. T…
by | Sep 21, 2020 | Diamond, Michael, Earnest, James
— Mayaro virus (MAYV) is an emerging mosquito-transmitted alphavirus. This is a panel of 18 neutralizing mAbs agains MAYV, 11 of which have activity that inhibited infection with EC50 values <10ng/ml.
Earnest, J. T., Basore, K., Roy, V., Bailey, A. L., Wang, D., Alter, G., ... & Diamond, M. S.…
by | Jul 20, 2020 | Diamond, Michael
— Irg1−/− mice were generated after receiving embryonic stem cells (ESCs) from the Knockout Mouse Project Repository containing an insertion cassette between exons 3 and 4. This cassette prevents transcription of downstream exons 4 and 5 and production of mature protein. Irg1−/&minu…