Patents by Inventor Ruth Ann Veach

Ruth Ann Veach 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: 11951150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and reducing inflammation and preventing and treating diseases and disorders associated with inflammation. It has been shown that CRADD plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity of endothelial monolayers. The recombinant cell-penetrating CRADD protein (CP-CRADD)-based compositions and methods described herein provide for the development of a novel treatment for inflammatory vascular disorders including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Huan Qiao, Lukasz S. Wylezinski
  • Patent number: 11771739
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating microbial inflammation including its end-stage sepsis and conditions associated with the microbial inflammation such as thrombocytopenia and hypoglycogenemia. In one aspect, the compositions and methods disclosed herein can also be used to enhance clearance of microbes from infected tissues, organs, or systems in a subject. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods for reducing levels of stress responsible transcription factors and metabolic transcription factors in a cell in a subject with microbial inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: Vanderbilt University, The United States As Represented By The Department Of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Jack Jacek Hawiger, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Lukasz Wylezinski
  • Publication number: 20220105148
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and reducing inflammation and preventing and treating diseases and disorders associated with inflammation. It has been shown that CRADD plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity of endothelial monolayers. The recombinant cell-penetrating CRADD protein (CP-CRADD)-based compositions and methods described herein provide for the development of a novel treatment for inflammatory vascular disorders including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Huan Qiao, Lukasz S. Wylezinski
  • Publication number: 20220072095
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating skin diseases mediated by inflammation that is caused by microbial, autoimmune, allergic, metabolic, neoplastic, and physical factors and insults (wounds, burns, UV light and radiation). In one aspect, the compositions and methods disclosed herein can also be used to enhance clearance of microbes from infected skin and subcutaneous tissue, in a subject. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods for reducing levels of stress-responsive transcription factors and metabolic transcription factors in a cell in a subject with inflammation-mediated skin diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jack Jacek HAWIGER, Yan LIU, Ruth Ann VEACH, Jozef ZIENKIEWICZ
  • Patent number: 11026992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and reducing inflammation and preventing and treating diseases and disorders associated with inflammation. It has been shown that CRADD plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity of endothelial monolayers. The recombinant cell-penetrating CRADD protein (CP-CRADD)-based compositions and methods described herein provide for the development of a novel treatment for inflammatory vascular disorders including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Huan Qiao, Lukasz S. Wylezinski
  • Publication number: 20210145928
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating microbial inflammation including its end-stage sepsis and conditions associated with the microbial inflammation such as thrombocytopenia and hypoglycogenemia. In one aspect, the compositions and methods disclosed herein can also be used to enhance clearance of microbes from infected tissues, organs, or systems in a subject. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods for reducing levels of stress responsible transcription factors and metabolic transcription factors in a cell in a subject with microbial inflammation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Jack Jacek HAWIGER, Jozef ZIENKIEWICZ, Ruth Ann VEACH, Yan LIU, Lukasz WYLEZINSKI
  • Publication number: 20200046799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and reducing inflammation and preventing and treating diseases and disorders associated with inflammation. It has been shown that CRADD plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity of endothelial monolayers. The recombinant cell-penetrating CRADD protein (CP-CRADD)-based compositions and methods described herein provide for the development of a novel treatment for inflammatory vascular disorders including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Huan Qiao, Lukasz S. Wylezinski
  • Patent number: 10342847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and reducing inflammation and preventing and treating diseases and disorders associated with inflammation. It has been shown that CRADD plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity of endothelial monolayers. The recombinant cell-penetrating CRADD protein (CP-CRADD)-based compositions and methods described herein provide for the development of a novel treatment for inflammatory vascular disorders including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Huan Qiao, Lukasz S. Wylezinski
  • Patent number: 10272133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy S. Major
  • Publication number: 20180050083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy S. Major
  • Patent number: 9808501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy S. Major
  • Publication number: 20170042964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy S. Major
  • Publication number: 20160354431
    Abstract: Nuclear Transport Modifiers such as cSN50 and cSN50.1, afford in vivo islet protection following a 2-day course of intense treatment in autoimmune diabetes-prone, non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a widely used model of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which resulted in a diabetes-free state for one year without apparent toxicity and the need to use insulin. cSN50 precipitously reduces the accumulation of islet-destructive autoreactive lymphocytes while enhancing activation-induced cell death of T and B lymphocytes derived from NOD mice. cSN50 attenuated pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in immune cells in this model of human T1D. cSN50 also provides cytoprotection of beta cells, therefore preserving residual insulin-producing capacity. Because intracellular delivery of a Nuclear Transport Modifier peptide such as cSN50 and cSN50.1 can result in lowering of fasting blood glucose levels and may ameliorate (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Daniel J. Moore, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz
  • Publication number: 20160324917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and reducing inflammation and preventing and treating diseases and disorders associated with inflammation. It has been shown that CRADD plays a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity of endothelial monolayers. The recombinant cell-penetrating CRADD protein (CP-CRADD)—based compositions and methods described herein provide for the development of a novel treatment for inflammatory vascular disorders including cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Yan Liu, Huan Qiao, Lukasz S. Wylezinski
  • Patent number: 9388224
    Abstract: Nuclear Transport Modifiers such as cSN50 and cSN50.1, afford in vivo islet protection following a 2-day course of intense treatment in autoimmune diabetes-prone, non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a widely used model of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which resulted in a diabetes-free state for one year without apparent toxicity and the need to use insulin. cSN50 precipitously reduces the accumulation of islet-destructive autoreactive lymphocytes while enhancing activation-induced cell death of T and B lymphocytes derived from NOD mice. cSN50 attenuated pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in immune cells in this model of human T1D. cSN50 also provides cytoprotection of beta cells, therefore preserving residual insulin-producing capacity. Because intracellular delivery of a Nuclear Transport Modifier peptide such as cSN50 and cSN50.1 can result in lowering of fasting blood glucose levels and may ameliorate (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Daniel J. Moore, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Ruth Ann Veach
  • Patent number: 9370549
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy S. Major
  • Publication number: 20150250850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy S. Major
  • Publication number: 20150191522
    Abstract: Nuclear Transport Modifiers such as cSN50 and cSN50.1, afford in vivo islet protection following a 2-day course of intense treatment in autoimmune diabetes-prone, non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a widely used model of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which resulted in a diabetes-free state for one year without apparent toxicity and the need to use insulin. cSN50 precipitously reduces the accumulation of islet-destructive autoreactive lymphocytes while enhancing activation-induced cell death of T and B lymphocytes derived from NOD mice. cSN50 attenuated pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in immune cells in this model of human T1D. cSN50 also provides cytoprotection of beta cells, therefore preserving residual insulin-producing capacity. Because intracellular delivery of a Nuclear Transport Modifier peptide such as cSN50 and cSN50.1 can result in lowering of fasting blood glucose levels and may ameliorate (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Daniel J. Moore, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Ruth Ann Veach
  • Patent number: 9044433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with dyslipidemia, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis, obesity, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, and related aspects of and conditions associated with metabolic syndrome. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are useful for regulating the lipid balance (lipid homeostasis) in a subject. Compositions and methods including a Nuclear Transport Modifier may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood and liver, a decrease in atherosclerotic lesion size, a decrease in body weight and in hyperglycemia, a reduction of fatty liver inflammation, and an improvement in liver function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Ruth Ann Veach, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Yan Liu, Robert D. Collins, Amy Major
  • Patent number: 8932559
    Abstract: Nuclear Transport Modifiers such as cSN50 and cSN50.1, afford in vivo islet protection following a 2-day course of intense treatment in autoimmune diabetes-prone, non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, a widely used model of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which resulted in a diabetes-free state for one year without apparent toxicity and the need to use insulin. cSN50 precipitously reduces the accumulation of islet-destructive autoreactive lymphocytes while enhancing activation-induced cell death of T and B lymphocytes derived from NOD mice. cSN50 attenuated pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in immune cells in this model of human T1D. cSN50 also provides cytoprotection of beta cells, therefore preserving residual insulin-producing capacity. Because intracellular delivery of a Nuclear Transport Modifier peptide such as cSN50 and cSN50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Jack J. Hawiger, Robert D. Collins, Daniel J. Moore, Jozef Zienkiewicz, Ruth Ann Veach