In the early 2000's, defendant Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research's (Sloan-Kettering) researcher, Dr. Michel Sadelain, developed an experimental gene therapy treatment for thalassemia using a recombinant "vector," i.e., a DNA molecule used as a vehicle to artificially carry foreign genetic material into another cell (the Sloan vector). In 2001, Sloan-Kettering filed for patent protection on the Sloan vector technology and was granted US Patent No. 7,541,179.
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