Annual report 2024/25

Patents

The Fraunhofer IZI patent portfolio currently consists of 45 patent families (excluding patents held at Fraunhofer IZI-BB), which are available for use in collaborative projects as well as for direct marketing and licensing.

  • Novel delivery systems for nucleic acids
  • Methods, reagents / antigens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various infections and other diseases for human and veterinary medicine
  • New treatment methods for cancer and other diseases
  • New method for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) 
  • Mineral compounds for prevention / therapy of kidney and intestinal diseases
  • RNA biomarkers for the prognosis of certain cancers
  • Methods, biomarkers and device components for point-of-care diagnostics of infectious agents and liver / kidney diseases
  • Drug / vaccine candidates for infectious diseases and amyloidoses
  • New viral vectors including optimized AAV vectors for gene modification of immune cells
  • Inactivation of pathogens in the context of vaccine production
  • Novel ATMPs and methods for their optimization
  • Technologies for the rapid identification and optimization of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) for cell and gene therapy
  • Epitopes from food relevant for the development of allergies and corresponding antibodies as a basis for allergy test developments
  • Technologies for microfluidic systems
  • Dialysis methods and novel components of dialysis systems
  • Technical solution for the combination of amplification methods and LTF-based detection in one vessel for novel rapid infection tests