VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (VSTA) Expands IP Portfolio, Awarded Canadian Patent Coverage
VistaGen Therapeutics, a biotech company using proprietary pluripotent stem cell technology for drug rescue and regenerative medicine, has received from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office a Notice of Allowance for Canadian patent No. 2,684,022, entitled "Mesoderm and Definitive Endoderm Cell Populations." This patent, which is exclusively licensed to VistaGen by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, will expand VistaGen's intellectual property portfolio for pluripotent stem cell culture systems that produce human cells of the endoderm lineage, including liver, lung, pancreas, parathyroid and thyroid cells. The patent enables the company to extend its research into the…