Patent 7141406 was granted and assigned to GenVec on November, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of enriching a solution for an adenovirus comprising contacting a solution containing an adenovirus with an anion exchange chromatography resin comprising an acrylate or sulphonamide linker such that the adenovirus binds to the chromatography resin and eluting the adenovirus from the resin with an eluant to obtain an enriched solution of adenovirus.