Patents by Inventor Lisa McKerracher

Lisa McKerracher 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).

  • Publication number: 20180297982
    Abstract: BA-1049 (R) and its active metabolite are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical formulations containing BA-1049 (R) or its active metabolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Rosen, Matthew D. Abbinanti, Joerg Ruschel, Lisa Mckerracher, Lisa Bond Moritz
  • Publication number: 20170313680
    Abstract: The disclosure provides rho kinase inhibitor BA-1049(R), an hydroxy metabolite of BA-1049(R), and adipate salts and deuterated forms thereof, useful for treating CNS disorders and injuries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Rosen, Matthew D. Abbinanti, Joerg Ruschel, Lisa McKerracher, Lisa Bond Mortiz
  • Publication number: 20170246181
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating a cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) and methods of treating cerebral aneurysm in a mammal with certain rho kinase inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Rosen, Steven Wayne Riesinger, Lisa McKerracher, Lisa Bond Mortiz
  • Patent number: 9687483
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating a cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) and methods of treating cerebral aneurysm in a mammal with certain Rho kinase inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: BIOAXONE BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Lisa M. Bond
  • Publication number: 20160213664
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating a cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) and methods of treating cerebral aneurysm in a mammal with certain Rho kinase inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Lisa M. Bond
  • Publication number: 20150297643
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-treatment combination to improve recovery after spinal cord injury or neurotrauma comprising: (a) Cell transplantation at the site of spinal cord injury and (b) Surgical delivery of BA-210. The combined treatment allows cells to be transplanted in the injury site during the acute trauma period, a time when the inflammatory response to neurotrauma adversely effects survival of transplanted cells. Early therapy delivered during critical care treatment after neurotrauma is essential for successful restorative therapy. The multi-treatment combination also provides a method to ensure that multi-potent transplanted cells do not become tumorigenic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: Lisa McKerracher
  • Patent number: 7910554
    Abstract: The Rho family of GTPases regulates axon growth and regeneration. Inactivation of Rho with C3, a toxin from Clostridium botulinum, can stimulate regeneration and sprouting of injured axons. The present invention provides novel chimeric C3-like Rho antagonists. These new antagonists are a significant improvement over C3 compounds because they are 3-4 orders of magnitude more potent to stimulate axon growth on inhibitory substrates than recombinant C3. The invention further provides methods of treating a disease of the eye by administering the compounds of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Bioaxone Therapeutique Inc.
    Inventor: Lisa McKerracher
  • Patent number: 7795218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel chimeric C3-like Rho antagonists and their use for promoting repair and neuron survival in injured mammalian central and peripheral nervous system and for treating or preventing cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Bioaxone Therapeutique Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Jon Scott Munzer
  • Publication number: 20090285833
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions, each consisting of a cell-permeable fusion protein conjugate of a polypeptidic cell-membrane transport moiety and a Clostridium botulinum C3 exotransferase unit, or a functional analog thereof, are provided. The compositions are useful to prevent or inhibit uncontrolled proliferation, spreading, and migration of a metastatic neoplastic cell of a cancer in a mammal. The compositions can each effect or arrest combination of two or more of tumor cell proliferation, migration, angiogenesis, and metalloproteinase secretion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: BIOAXONE THERAPEUTIQUE INC.
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Dana Lasko
  • Patent number: 7572913
    Abstract: Substituted piperidine compounds represented by the structure I are provided, wherein each of R1a, R1b, R1c, R1d, R1e, R1f, R1g, R1h, R2, R2A, R3, R4, A, X, a, x and n is as defined in the specification. Substituted piperidine compounds of structure I may permeate or penetrate across a nerve cell membrane into the interior of a nerve cell, may inhibit intracellular Rho kinase enzyme found in nerve cells in mammals, and may find utility in repair of damaged nerves in the central and peripheral nervous system of such mammals. These compounds may induce the regeneration or growth of neurites in mammalian nerve cells and may thereby induce regeneration of damaged or diseased nerve tissue. These compounds also find additional utility as antagonists of the enzyme Rho kinase in treatment of disease states in which Rho kinase is implicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Bioaxone Therapeutique Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Eryk Thouin, William Lubell, Robert Snow, Karine Gingras
  • Publication number: 20090142325
    Abstract: There is provided a method of prevention or inhibition of uncontrolled proliferation of a cancer comprising administration to a mammal of a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a cell-permeable fusion protein conjugate comprising a polypeptidic cell-membrane transport moiety and a Clostridium botulinum C3 exotransferase unit or a functional analog thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Dana LASKO, Lisa McKerracher
  • Publication number: 20090136573
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making, delivering and using formulations that combine a therapeutically active agent(s) (such as for example a Rho antagonist(s)) and a flowable carrier component capable of forming a therapeutically acceptable matrix in vivo (such as for example tissue adhesives), to injured nerves to promote repair and regeneration and regrowth of injured (mammalian) neuronal cells, e.g. for facilitating axon growth at a desired lesion site. Preferred active agents are known Rho antagonists such as for example C3, chimeric C3 proteins, etc. or substances selected from among known trans-4-amino(alkyl)-1-pyridylcarbamoylcyclohexane compounds or Rho kinase inhibitors. The system for example may deliver an antagonist(s) in a tissue adhesive such as, for example, a fibrin glue or a collagen gel to create a delivery matrix in situ. A kit and methods of stimulating neuronal regeneration are also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Lisa McKerracher
  • Publication number: 20090053190
    Abstract: The Rho family GTPases regulates axon growth and regeneration. Inactivation of Rho with C3, a toxin from Clostridium botulinum, can stimulate regeneration and sprouting of injured axons. The present invention provides novel chimeric C3-like Rho antagonists. These new antagonists are a significant improvement over C3 compounds because they are 3-4 orders of magnitude more potent to stimulate axon growth on inhibitory substrates than recombinant C3. The invention further provides evidence that these compounds promote repair when applied to the injured mammalian central nervous system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventor: Lisa McKerracher
  • Patent number: 7491692
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making, delivering and using formulations that combine a therapeutically active agent(s) (such as for example a Rho antagonist(s)) and a flowable carrier component capable of forming a therapeutically acceptable matrix in vivo (such as for example tissue adhesives), to injured nerves to promote repair and regeneration and regrowth of injured (mammalian) neuronal cells, e.g. for facilitating axon growth at a desired lesion site. Preferred active agents are known Rho antagonists such as for example C3, chimeric C3 proteins, etc. or substances selected from among known trans-4-amino(alkyl)-1-pyridylcarbamoylcyclohexane compounds or Rho kinase inhibitors. The system for example may deliver an antagonist(s) in a tissue adhesive such as, for example, a fibrin glue or a collagen gel to create a delivery matrix in situ. A kit and methods of stimulating neuronal regeneration are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Inventor: Lisa McKerracher
  • Publication number: 20080269120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel chimeric C3-like Rho antagonists and their use for promoting repair and neuron survival in injured mammalian central and peripheral nervous system and for treating or preventing cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Jon Scott Munzer
  • Patent number: 7442686
    Abstract: The Rho family GTPases regulates axon growth and regeneration. Inactivation of Rho with C3, a toxin from Clostridium botulinum, can stimulate regeneration and sprouting of injured axons. The present invention provides novel chimeric C3-like Rho antagonists. The invention further provides evidence that these compounds promote repair when applied to the injured mammalian central nervous system, such as the retina. The present invention provide agents which are able to diffuse readily and therefore can promote repair for neurodegenerative disease of the eye, such as macular degeneration. The present invention further provides methods of treating macular degeneration, methods of inhibiting or reducing the rate of subretinal neovascularization and proliferation of neovascular tissue and methods of protecting retinal photoreceptor cell death.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Bioaxone Therapeutique Inc.
    Inventors: Dana Lasko, Lisa McKerracher
  • Publication number: 20080233098
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antagonist of one or more of Rho family members having ability to elicit neurite outgrowth from cultured neurons in an assay method which includes culturing neurons on a substrate that incorporates a growth-inhibiting amount of Rho family member and exposing the cultured neurons to a candidate Rho family member antagonist agent to permit neuron growth. Candidates which elicit neurite outgrowth from the cultured neurons are thus identified as Rho family antagonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Maxime Lehmann
  • Publication number: 20080020000
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions, each consisting of a cell-permeable fusion protein conjugate of a polypeptidic cell-membrane transport moiety and a Clostridium botulinum C3 exotransferase unit, or a functional analog thereof, are provided. The compositions are useful to prevent or inhibit uncontrolled proliferation, spreading, and migration of a metastatic neoplastic cell of a cancer in a mammal. The compositions can each effect or arrest combination of two or more of tumor cell proliferation, migration, angiogenesis, and metalloproteinase secretion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: BIOAXONE THERAPEUTIQUE
    Inventor: Lisa McKerracher
  • Publication number: 20070270340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel chimeric C3-like Rho antagonists and their use for promoting repair and neuron survival in injured mammalian central and peripheral nervous system and for treating or preventing cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Jon Munzer
  • Publication number: 20070128585
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antagonist of one or more of Rho family members having ability to elicit neurite outgrowth from cultured neurons in an assay method which includes culturing neurons on a substrate that incorporates a growth-inhibiting amount of Rho family member and exposing the cultured neurons to a candidate Rho family member antagonist agent to permit neuron growth. Candidates which elicit neurite outgrowth from the cultured neurons are thus identified as Rho family antagonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
    Inventors: Lisa McKerracher, Maxime Lehmann