Patents by Inventor Harald Rau

Harald Rau has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10519226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipient(s) and a VEGF neutralizing prodrug, which comprises a VEGF neutralizing biologically active moiety, for use in a method for the treatment of one or more ocular conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Ascendis Pharma Opthalmology Division A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Thomas Knappe, Burkhardt Laufer, Romy Reimann, Samuel Weisbrod, Kennett Sprogøe, Nicola Bisek, Sebastian Stark, Tobias Voigt
  • Publication number: 20190328840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controlled-release CNP agonist from which CNP agonist is released with a release half-life of at least 6 hours under physiological conditions and which controlled-release CNP agonist has an EC50 that is at least 20-fold higher than the EC50 of the corresponding free CNP agonist and which released CNP agonist has an EC50 that is at most 3-fold higher than the EC50 of the corresponding free CNP agonist; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said controlled-release CNP agonist; their use; and to methods of treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Kennett SPROGØE, Harald Rau, Felix Cleemann, Ulrich Hersel, Caroline Elisabeth Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20190328841
    Abstract: The present invention relates a pharmaceutical composition comprising a controlled-release CNP agonist which reduces CNP agonist-associated side-effects, the use of such controlled-release CNP agonist and to methods of treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Kennett Sprogøe, Harald Rau, Felix Cleemann, Ulrich Hersel, Caroline Elisabeth Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20190262426
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogel-linked IL-1ra prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. It further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising said hydrogel-linked IL-1ra prodrug, its use as medicament for the treatment of a IL-1 mediated disease, methods of application of such hydrogel-linked IL-1ra prodrugs or pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, and containers comprising the hydrogel-linked IL-1ra prodrugs or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a pharmaceutical composition comprising said hydrogel-linked IL-1ra prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Ascendis Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Joachim Zettler, Ulrich Hersel, Nora Kaluza, Mathias Krusch, Tobias Voigt
  • Publication number: 20190255183
    Abstract: The present invention relates to prodrugs of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), pharmaceutical compositions comprising such CNP prodrugs and their uses. In an embodiment, the CNP prodrugs are conjugates of CNP peptides to poly(ethylene glycol) through a reversible linker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: ASCENDIS PHARMA GROWTH DISORDERS A/S
    Inventors: Kennett Sprogøe, Ulrich Hersel, Harald Rau, Thomas Wegge, Frank Faltinger, Felix Cleemann, Nora Kaluza, Ana Bernhard, Annette Buba, Tom Woods
  • Publication number: 20190216940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel prodrugs of primary or secondary amine-comprising biologically active moieties and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, prodrug reagents, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said prodrugs and the use of prodrugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicants: Ascendis Pharma A/S, Ascendis Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Nicola Bisek, Samuel Weisbrod
  • Patent number: 10336567
    Abstract: A manufacturing system for manufacturing folding boxes or labels from a web of printing material, includes a web unwinding device, a flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit disposed downstream thereof, and a product delivery disposed downstream thereof. The flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit is deactivatable and at least one rotary processing module for processing the web of printing material, in particular a rotary diecutting module, is provided between the flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit and the product delivery. This construction of the manufacturing system advantageously allows the planar elements to be processed either by the flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit or by a rotary diecutting module. Thus, the manufacturing system may be operated at high productivity. A method for operating the manufacturing system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Gallus Stanz- und Druckmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Harald Rau
  • Publication number: 20190192634
    Abstract: A chemically modified human Growth Hormone (rhGH) prepared by attaching a transient linker which comprises a polyethylene glycol. The chemically modified protein may have a much longer lasting rhGH activity than that of the unmodified rhGH, enabling reduced dose and scheduling opportunities and the modified rhGH may not cause lipoatrophy. Also includes methods of use for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases or disorders in which use of growth hormone is beneficial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Susanne Kindermann, Torben Leßmann, Grethe Norskov Rasmussen, Ulrich Hersel, Thomas Wegge, Kennett Sprogøe
  • Publication number: 20190105400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to prodrugs or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof comprising a covalent treprostinil carrier conjugate as well as pharmaceutical composition comprising said compounds. The compounds may be used as medicaments, especially for diseases or disorders which can be treated by treprostinil, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Ascendis Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Ulrich Hersel, Harald Rau, Torben Lessmann, Nicola Bisek, Guillaume Maitro, Kennett Sprogoe, Thomas Wegge, Oliver Keil, Joachim Zettler
  • Publication number: 20190022237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to controlled-release CNP agonists having an at least 5-fold longer degradation half-life in an in vitro NEP degradation assay than the corresponding released CNP agonist, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said controlled-release CNP agonist, their use and to methods of treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kennett SPROGØE, Harald Rau, Ana Bernhard, Ulrich Hersel, Felix Cleenmann, Thomas Wegge
  • Publication number: 20190015481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CNP prodrug or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof comprising a CNP moiety -D; and a carrier moiety —Z that is conjugated through a moiety -L2- to a reversible prodrug linker moiety -L1-, which reversible prodrug linker moiety -L1- is covalently and reversibly conjugated to -D; wherein -L2- is a chemical bond or a spacer; and —Z is a polymer having a molecular weight of at least 10 kDa. It further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the CNP prodrug or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, their use as a medicament and to methods of treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: ASCENDIS PHARMA GROWTH DISORDERS A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Ulrich Hersel, Felix Cleemann, Caroline Elisabeth Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20190008977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to CNP prodrugs in which the carrier is covalently and reversibly attached to the ring moiety of a CNP moiety, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such CNP prodrugs, to their uses and to methods of treating diseases that can be treated with the CNP prodrugs of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: ASCENDIS PHARMA GROWTH DISORDERS A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Ulrich Hersel, Felix Cleemann, Caroline Elisabeth Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20190000926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controlled-release CNP agonist having low NPR-C affinity; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said controlled-release CNP agonist; their use; and to methods of treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Ulrich Hersel, Kennett Sprogøe, Frank Faltinger, Thomas Wegge, Felix Cleemann
  • Publication number: 20180312582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds comprising a protecting group moiety-tag moiety conjugate, a method of purification and monoconjugates obtained from such method of purification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Ascendis Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Nicola Bisek, Thomas Knappe, Romy Reimann, Sebastian Stark, Samuel Weisbrod
  • Patent number: 10098930
    Abstract: A chemically modified human Growth Hormone (rhGH) prepared by attaching a transient linker which comprises a polyethylene glycol. The chemically modified protein may have a much longer lasting rhGH activity than that of the unmodified rhGH, enabling reduced dose and scheduling opportunities and the modified rhGH may not cause lipoatrophy. Also includes methods of use for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases or disorders in which use of growth hormone is beneficial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Susanne Kindermann, Torben Lebmann, Grethe Norskov Rasmussen, Ulrich Hersel, Thomas Wegge, Kennett Sprogoe
  • Patent number: 10040850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds comprising a protecting group moiety-tag moiety conjugate, a method of purification and monoconjugates obtained from such method of purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Ascendis Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Nicola Bisek, Thomas Knappe, Romy Reimann, Sebastian Stark, Samuel Weisbrod
  • Patent number: 10029015
    Abstract: A polymeric prodrug composition including a hydrogel, a biologically active moiety and a reversible prodrug linker. The prodrug linker covalently links the hydrogel and the biologically active moiety at a position and the hydrogel has a plurality of pores with openings on its surface. The diameter of the pores is larger than that of the biologically active moiety at least at all points of the pore between at least one of the openings and the position of the biologically active moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S
    Inventors: Ulrich Hersel, Harald Rau, Robert Schnepf, Dirk Vetter, Thomas Wegge
  • Publication number: 20180185452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dry compositions of rhGH polymer prodrug containing a lyoprotectant and, optionally, one or more than one excipient. Such compositions are stable for at least 1 year, when stored at 2-8° C. The invention further relates to methods of manufacturing said compositions, containers comprising such composition as well as a kit of parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S
    Inventors: Grethe Nørskov Rasmussen, Susanne Kindermann, Harald Rau, Thomas Wegge
  • Patent number: 9919033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dry compositions of rhGH polymer prodrug containing a lyoprotectant and, optionally, one or more than one excipient. Such compositions are stable for at least 1 year, when stored at 2-8° C. The invention further relates to methods of manufacturing said compositions, containers comprising such composition as well as a kit of parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S
    Inventors: Grethe Nørskov Rasmussen, Susanne Kindermann, Harald Rau, Thomas Wegge
  • Patent number: 9913912
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carrier-linked prostanoid prodrugs of formula (I) Z1—(X0-L0-PG0)y (I), wherein Z1, X0, L0, PG0 and y have the meaning as indicated in the description and claims; pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. It further relates to their use as medicaments, especially for treating, controlling, delaying or preventing pulmonary arterial hypertension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ascendis Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Harald Rau, Guillaume Maitro, Ulrich Hersel, Oliver Keil, Thomas Wegge