Patents Assigned to RFS Pharma, LLC
  • Patent number: 8895531
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds and compositions of ®-2?-fluoronucleoside phosphonates, as well as methods to treat HIV, HBV, HCV or abnormal cellular proliferation comprising administering said compounds or compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: RFS Pharma LLC
    Inventor: Junxing Shi
  • Patent number: 8859595
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in human subjects or other animal hosts. The compounds are as also pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof as pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment or prevention of HCV infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: RFS Pharma, LLC, Emory University
    Inventors: Steven J. Coats, Franck Amblard, Hongwang Zhang, Longhu Zhou, Richard Anthony Whitaker, Tamara Rosario McBrayer, Raymond F. Schinazi, Junxing Shi
  • Patent number: 8815829
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing viral infections, in particular, HIV, and HBV, in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are 3?-azido-2?,3?-dideoxy purine monophosphates, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HIV-1 and HBV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: RFS Pharma, LLC, Emory University, University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Raymond F. Schinazi, John W. Mellors, Nicolas Paul Sluis-Cremer, Steven J. Coats, Richard Anthony Whitaker, Brian David Herman, Jong Hyun Cho, Longhu Zhou, Hongwang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140235566
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing cancer and viral infections, in particular, HIV, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), herpes viruses (HSV-1, HSV-2), Dengue virus, Yellow fever, or HBV in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are certain N4-hydroxycytidine nucleosides derivatives, modified monophosphate and phosphonates prodrugs analogs, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HIV-1, HIV-2, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), herpes viruses (HSV-1, HSV-2), Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: Emory University, RFS Pharma, LLC
    Inventors: Franck Amblard, Steven J. Coats, Raymond F. Schinazi
  • Publication number: 20140212382
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing viral infections using nucleoside analog monophosphate prodrugs. More specifically, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, Dengue virus, Chikungunya virus and Yellow fever in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are certain 2,6-diamino 2-C-methyl purine nucleoside monophosphate prodrugs and modified prodrug analogs, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, Dengue virus, Chikungunya virus and Yellow fever. This invention teaches how to modify the metabolic pathway of 2,6-diamino 2?-C-methyl purine and deliver nucleotide triphosphate(s) to polymerases at heretofore unobtainable therapeutically-relevant concentrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: EMORY UNIVERSITY, RFS PHARMA, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond F. Schinazi, Jong Hyun Cho, Longhu Zhou, Hongwang Zhang, Ugo Pradere, Steven J. Coats
  • Patent number: 8729014
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing viral infections, in particular, HCV in human patients or other animal hosts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignees: RFS Pharma, LLC, Genoscience
    Inventors: Jerome Courcambeck, Philippe Halfon, Mourad Bouzidi, Steven J. Coats, Richard Anthony Whitaker
  • Publication number: 20140066395
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing cancer and viral infections, in particular, HIV, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, HSV-1, HSV-2, Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are certain 6-substituted purine monophosphates, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HIV-1, HIV-2, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, HSV-1, HSV-2, Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: Emory University, RFS Pharma, LLC
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Cho, Steven J. Coats, Raymond F. Schinazi, Hongwang Zhang, Longhu Zhou
  • Patent number: 8609627
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing cancer and viral infections, in particular, HIV, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, HSV-1, HSV-2, Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are certain 6-substituted purine monophosphates, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HIV-1, HIV-2, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, HSV-1, HSV-2, Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: RFS Pharma, LLC, Emory University
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Cho, Steven J. Coats, Raymond F. Schinazi, Hongwang Zhang, Longhu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20130210774
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in human subjects or other animal hosts. The compounds are as also pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof as pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment or prevention of HCV infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicants: EMORY UNIVERSITY, RFS PHARMA, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Coats, Franck Amblard, Hongwang Zhang, Longhu Zhou, Richard Anthony Whitaker, Tamara Rosario McBrayer, Raymond F. Schinazi, Junxing Shi
  • Publication number: 20120142627
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing cancer and viral infections, in particular, HIV and HBV, in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are certain 6-substituted-2-amino-purine dioxolane monophosphates or phosphonates, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: Emory University, RFS Pharma, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond F. Schinazi, Steven J. Coats
  • Publication number: 20120129765
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing viral infections, in particular, HCV in human patients or other animal hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: GENOSCIENCE, RFS Pharma, LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Courcambeck, Philippe Halfon, Mourad Bouzidi, Steven J. Coats, Richard Anthony Whitaker
  • Publication number: 20120040924
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing cancer and viral infections, in particular, HIV, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, HSV-1, HSV-2, Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are certain 6-substituted purine monophosphates, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HIV-1, HIV-2, HCV, Norovirus, Saporovirus, HSV-1, HSV-2, Dengue virus, Yellow fever, and HBV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicants: EMORY UNIVERSITY, RFS PHARMA, LLC.
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Cho, Steven J. Coats, Raymond F. Schinazi, Hongwang Zhang, Longhu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20100279969
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions and methods for treating or preventing viral infections, in particular, HIV, HBV, and HCV, in human patients or other animal hosts. The compounds are 3?-azido-2?,3?-dideoxy purine nucleosides or phosphonates, and pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, prodrugs, and other derivatives thereof. In particular, the compounds show potent antiviral activity against HIV-1 resistance mutants including HIV-1K65R, HTV-1K70E, HIV-1L74V, HIV-1M184V, HIV-1Q151M and inhibitory activity against HIV-1 RT harboring TAMS or insertion mutations including HIV-1AZT3, HIV-1AZT7, HIV-1AZT9, HIV-1Q151M, or HIV-169insertion. In one embodiment, the compounds are 3?-azido-ddA, 3?-azido-ddG, or combinations thereof, administered with one or more additional antiviral agents that select for TAM mutations and/or the M 184V mutation, along with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicants: RFS PHARMA, LLC, EMORY UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    Inventors: Raymond F. Schinazi, John W. Mellors, Nicolas Paul Sluis-Cremer, Frank Amblard, Steven J. Coats, Junxing Shi, Richard Anthony Whitaker
  • Patent number: 7560550
    Abstract: Glycosylation of 2,6-diaminopurines or silyl derivatives thereof with a compound of the structure is facilitated by the presence of an optionally silylated 1,3-dicarbonyl compound during glycosylation. Byproducts are minimized, while stereoselectivity may be altered by choice of Lewis acid and other reaction condictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: RFS Pharma, LLC
    Inventors: Wolfgang Döring, Hermann Petersen