Stephen P Cochran

US Patent:

7597885, Oct 6, 2009

Filed:

Mar 26, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/810518

Inventors:

Thomas H. Barrows - Austell GA, US
Stephen A. Cochran - Tucker GA, US
Bryan Marshall - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

Aderans Research Institute, Inc. - Marietta GA

International Classification:

A61K 31/74
A01N 63/00
A01N 65/00
C12N 11/04

US Classification:

424 937, 435182

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an improved scaffold which is constructed to mimic the architecture of the native hair follicle. The present invention also relates to the use of specific compositions and methods of manufacture to produce scaffolds that combine biocompatibility with the desired rates of bioabsorption. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a biomimetic hair follicle graft and a method for seeding the graft with cells and implanting the graft into the skin where the growth of a new hair shaft is desired. A further embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for hair multiplication in which cells are multiplied in culture and aliquoted into a multitude of bioabsorbable scaffolds in combination with cultured keratinocytes or other allogenic cells.

US Patent:

D606190, Dec 15, 2009

Filed:

Sep 16, 2008

Appl. No.:

29/324590

Inventors:

Terrell Pruitt - Lawnreceville GA, US
Stephen A. Cochran - Tucker GA, US
Bryan Marshall - Philadelphia PA, US
Yandong Su - Atlanta GA, US
John DePiano - Burlington MA, US
Gary F. Prokop - Wheaton IL, US
Martin Rathgeber - Chicago IL, US
Kenneth Justin Washenik - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

Aderans Research Institute, Inc. - Marietta GA

International Classification:

2402

US Classification:

D24113

US Patent:

20070122387, May 31, 2007

Filed:

Nov 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/603818

Inventors:

Stephen Cochran - Tucker GA, US
Bryan Marshall - Atlanta GA, US
Thomas Barrows - Austell GA, US
Yandong Su - Atlanta GA, US
Robyn Schlicher - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

Aderans Research Institute, Inc. - Beverly Hills CA

International Classification:

A61K 35/36

US Classification:

424093700

Abstract:

The present invention is a hair graft derived from a plucked hair comprising a plucked hair having adhered epidermal stem cells and associated follicular dermal cells. The present invention also includes methods of making a hair graft, methods of implanting a hair graft and methods of identifying inductive follicular dermal cells.