Patents

Listed below are the patents with records already available and are in negotiation with the UFC rector for full import, as our original proposal. Some of these were developed within the scientific and technological collaboration between the Federal University of Ceara & the University of Virginia, VA, USA.

1 - US Patent # 5,561,111

Stable Glutamine Derivatives for Oral and Intravenous Rehydration and Nutrition Therapy (awarded the Henderson UVa. Inventor-of-the-year award).

2 - US Patent # 6,649,746

Biological production of stable Glutamine, Poly-glutamine Derivatives in Transgenic Organisms and Their Use for Therapeutic Purposes. Issued November 18, 2003

3 - US Patent # 5,639,750

Method of treating C. difficile and Cholera. Issued June 17, 1997.

4 - US Patents # 5,436, 239 and # 5,929,095

Method of treating C. difficile and Cholera. Issued July 25, 1995 and July 27, 1999.

5 - US Patent # 4.820.714

Use of phospholipase inhibitors in the treatment of Clostridium difficile diarrhea. Issue 1994.