Wu, Yiquan
Shrestha, Prabha
Heape, Natalie M.
Yarchoan, Robert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3057-1395
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (Intramural Research Program)
National Institutes of Health
Article History
Received: 17 February 2022
Accepted: 18 April 2022
First Online: 13 May 2022
Declarations
: This research was presented in part as an abstracts and poster at the 23rd International Workshop on Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpesvirus & Related Agents, Virtual meeting, (2021) and the 17th International Conference on Malignancies in HIV/AIDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD (2019).
: R. Yarchoan reports receiving research support from Celgene (now Bristol Myers Squibb) through CRADAs with the NCI. Dr. Yarchoan also reports receiving drugs for clinical trials from Merck, EMD-Serano, Eli Lilly, and CTI BioPharma through CRADAs with the NCI, and he has received drug supply for laboratory research from Janssen Pharmaceuticals. R. Yarchoan is a co-inventor on US Patent 10,001,483 entitled "Methods for the treatment of Kaposi's sarcoma or KSHV-induced lymphoma using immunomodulatory compounds and uses of biomarkers." R. Yarchoan is also a coinventor on patents on a peptide vaccine for HIV and on the treatment of Kaposi sarcoma with IL12, and an immediate family member of R. Yarchoan is a co-inventor on patents related to internalization of target receptors, on KSHV viral IL-6, and on the use of calreticulin and calreticulin fragments to inhibit angiogenesis. All rights, title, and interest to these patents have been or should by law be assigned to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the government conveys a portion of the royalties it receives to its employee inventors under the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-502). No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed by the other authors.