Medical School Harvard Medical School Graduated: 1955
Method And Dosage Form Using An Antagonist To Gamma Interferon To Control Mhc-Associated Autoimmune Disease
US Patent:
6036956, Mar 14, 2000
Filed:
Nov 23, 1994
Appl. No.:
8/344360
Inventors:
Chaim O. Jacob - Mt. View CA Hugh O. McDevitt - Palo Alto CA Peter van der Meide - Woubrugge, NL Joseph H. Holoshitz - Palo Alto CA
Assignee:
The Leland Stanford Junior University - Stanford CA
International Classification:
A61K 39395, C07K 1624
US Classification:
4241451
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to immunotherapeutic methos for treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by administerring polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies specific for gamma interferon (IFN-gamma).