Patents by Inventor Robert N. Nishimura

Robert N. Nishimura 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: 20240108634
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and their use in methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting the binding between Yes-associated protein and TEA domain. Also, described herein are methods of using said compositions capable of inhibiting the binding between Yes-associated protein and TEA domain to treat cancer, inhibit cell proliferation, cell migration, cell invasiveness and tumor growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Gera, Jacquelyn T. Saunders, Brent Holmes, Angelica Benavides-Serrato, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20240052056
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20240052057
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20240026026
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230077885
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for selective targeting of live cells, which have undergone or are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises contacting the live cells with a cell-penetrating polypeptide comprising cell-penetrating determinants so that the cell-penetrating polypeptide binds extracellular DNA near or around the live cells so as to form a complex or association therewith such that the complex or associated polypeptide-DNA so bound bind the live cells and penetrates the live cells thereby selectively targeting live cells at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11453725
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for selective targeting of live cells, which have undergone or are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises contacting the live cells with a cell-penetrating polypeptide comprising cell-penetrating determinants so that the cell-penetrating polypeptide binds extracellular DNA near or around the live cells so as to form a complex or association therewith such that the complex or associated polypeptide-DNA so bound bind the live cells and penetrates the live cells thereby selectively targeting live cells at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20220089771
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20220017609
    Abstract: Antibodies that penetrate cell nuclei and inhibit DNA repair or interfere with DNA metabolism are provided for treatment of cancer (both directly and by sensitizing cancer cells to DNA-damaging treatments) or inhibiting or preventing viral infection, proliferation or metabolism. The method involves treating cells with a composition containing cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof, alone or in combination with treatment that induces DNA damage such as DNA-damaging chemotherapy or radiation. The impact of the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof is potentiated in cancer cells that are deficient in DNA repair, and the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof are synthetically lethal to cancer cells with DNA repair deficiencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: James E. Hansen, Peter M. Glazer, Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, Grace Chan
  • Patent number: 10961301
    Abstract: Antibodies that penetrate cell nuclei and inhibit DNA repair or interfere with DNA metabolism are provided for treatment of cancer (both directly and by sensitizing cancer cells to DNA-damaging treatments) or inhibiting or preventing viral infection, proliferation or metabolism. The method involves treating cells with a composition containing cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof, alone or in combination with treatment that induces DNA damage such as DNA-damaging chemotherapy or radiation. The impact of the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof is potentiated in cancer cells that are deficient in DNA repair, and the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof are synthetically lethal to cancer cells with DNA repair deficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: Yale University, The Regents of the University of California, The United States Government Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: James E. Hansen, Peter M. Glazer, Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, Grace Chan
  • Publication number: 20200385447
    Abstract: The invention provides for a fusion protein comprising a 3E10 Fv joined to a Hsp-70, Hsp-27, Hsp-90 or GRP-78 or portion thereof, and optionally, the 3E10 Fv comprising an amino acid sequence AGIH at its amino terminus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, James E. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10703807
    Abstract: The invention provides for a fusion protein comprising a 3E10 Fv joined to a Hsp-70, Hsp-27, Hsp-90 or GRP-78 or portion thereof, and optionally, the 3E10 Fv comprising an amino acid sequence AGIH at its amino terminus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, James E. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10683363
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200129636
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for selective targeting of live cells, which have undergone or are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises contacting the live cells with a cell-penetrating polypeptide comprising cell-penetrating determinants so that the cell-penetrating polypeptide binds extracellular DNA near or around the live cells so as to form a complex or association therewith such that the complex or associated polypeptide-DNA so bound bind the live cells and penetrates the live cells thereby selectively targeting live cells at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, James E. Hansen, Peter Glazer
  • Publication number: 20200038520
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for selective targeting of live cells, which have undergone or are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises contacting the live cells with a cell-penetrating polypeptide comprising cell-penetrating determinants so that the cell-penetrating polypeptide binds extracellular DNA near or around the live cells so as to form a complex or association therewith such that the complex or associated polypeptide-DNA so bound bind the live cells and penetrates the live cells thereby selectively targeting live cells at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: RICHARD H. WEISBART, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10383945
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for selective targeting of live cells, which have undergone or are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises contacting the live cells with a cell-penetrating polypeptide comprising cell-penetrating determinants so that the cell-penetrating polypeptide binds extracellular DNA near or around the live cells so as to form a complex or association therewith such that the complex or associated polypeptide-DNA so bound bind the live cells and penetrates the live cells thereby selectively targeting live cells at a site of interest with a cell-penetrating polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VERTERANS AFFAIRS
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20180044409
    Abstract: The invention provides for a fusion protein comprising a 3E10 Fv joined to a Hsp-70, Hsp-27, Hsp-90 or GRP-78 or portion thereof, and optionally, the 3E10 Fv comprising an amino acid sequence AGIH at its amino terminus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, James E. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20170334981
    Abstract: Antibodies that penetrate cell nuclei and inhibit DNA repair or interfere with DNA metabolism are provided for treatment of cancer (both directly and by sensitizing cancer cells to DNA-damaging treatments) or inhibiting or preventing viral infection, proliferation or metabolism. The method involves treating cells with a composition containing cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof, alone or in combination with treatment that induces DNA damage such as DNA-damaging chemotherapy or radiation. The impact of the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof is potentiated in cancer cells that are deficient in DNA repair, and the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof are synthetically lethal to cancer cells with DNA repair deficiencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: James E. Hansen, Peter M. Glazer, Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, Grace Chan
  • Patent number: 9732146
    Abstract: The invention provides for a fusion protein comprising a 3E10 Fv joined to a Hsp-70, Hsp-27, Hsp-90 or GRP-78 or portion thereof, and optionally, the 3E10 Fv comprising an amino acid sequence AGIH at its amino terminus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Robert N. Nishimura, Richard H. Weisbart, James Hansen
  • Patent number: 9701740
    Abstract: Antibodies that penetrate cell nuclei and inhibit DNA repair or interfere with DNA metabolism are provided for treatment of cancer (both directly and by sensitizing cancer cells to DNA-damaging treatments) or inhibiting or preventing viral infection, proliferation or metabolism. The method involves treating cells with a composition containing cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof, alone or in combination with treatment that induces DNA damage such as DNA-damaging chemotherapy or radiation. The impact of the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof is potentiated in cancer cells that are deficient in DNA repair, and the cell-penetrating anti-DNA antibodies or derivatives thereof are synthetically lethal to cancer cells with DNA repair deficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: YALE UNIVERSITY, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, The United States of America represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: James E. Hansen, Peter M. Glazer, Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura, Grace Chan
  • Publication number: 20160237165
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Richard H. Weisbart, Robert N. Nishimura