Patents by Inventor Stephen Albert Johnston

Stephen Albert Johnston 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: 11976274
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of identifying neoantigens for treating and preventing cancer. Also disclosed are methods and compositions for administering identified neoantigens for the treatment and prevention of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Stephen Albert Johnston, Luhui Shen
  • Publication number: 20230338490
    Abstract: Provided herein are vaccine compositions for use in immunotherapy for canine cancers, and methods of canine cancer immunotherapy using said compositions. The compositions and methods provided herein include DNA vaccines having two plasmids that encode thirty-one peptide antigens, plus a plasmid that encodes canine GMCSF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Publication number: 20230338486
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of treating cancer in dogs using personalized cancer vaccines comprising peptides having frameshift mutations caused by errors in transcription and splicing of an mRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Luhui SHEN
  • Publication number: 20230181645
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods to improve effectiveness of cancer vaccines by increasing high affinity T cells number. Methods of eliciting an immune response in a treatment subject in need thereof and methods of treating cancer and/or a tumor in a subject are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Publication number: 20220373561
    Abstract: A method of producing a set of high affinity peptides for detecting one or more antibodies associated with a disease or condition of interest. The method including identifying a set of informative peptides correlated to the disease or condition of interest and translating the set of informative peptides to one or more high affinity peptides for an antibody of interest, wherein the presence of the antibody of interest identifies a subject as having the disease or condition of interest. A diagnostic peptide array produced from the one or more high affinity. A method of detecting an antibody associated with a disease of condition, including: contacting a biological sample with a diagnostic peptide array; and detecting the binding of one or more antibodies to a peptide that is associated with a disease or condition of interest, thereby detecting the antibody associated with a disease of condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON
  • Patent number: 11484581
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of treating cancer in dogs using personalized cancer vaccines comprising peptides having frameshift mutations caused by errors in transcription and splicing of an mRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Stephen Albert Johnston, Luhui Shen
  • Publication number: 20220332843
    Abstract: A method of producing a therapeutic or preventive antibody for a cancer and/or tumor of interest is disclosed. The methods include binding antibodies of interest to frameshift peptide arrays, selecting frameshift peptides that are immunoreactive to the antibodies, and preparing an antibody composition against the selected frameshift peptides. Also disclosed are antibody compositions, methods of eliciting an immune response and methods of treatment using the methods of producing the antibodies as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Milene PETERSON
  • Publication number: 20220257701
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of identifying neoantigens for treating and preventing cancer. Also disclosed are methods and compositions for administering identified neoantigens for the treatment and prevention of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Luhui SHEN
  • Publication number: 20220251544
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of identifying neoantigens for treating and preventing cancer. Also disclosed are methods and compositions for administering identified neoantigens for the treatment and prevention of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Luhui SHEN
  • Publication number: 20220162276
    Abstract: Compositions, methods, systems, apparatus and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed for reducing the susceptibility of a population and/or members thereof to cancer, which may include anti-cancer vaccines, components thereof which may include novopeptides, and methods relating thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Publication number: 20220008525
    Abstract: A method of producing a vaccine for a cancer and/or tumor and stage of interest is disclosed. The method includes identifying a first population of peptides that are immunoreactive with a set of biological samples obtained from a set of test subjects that have been identified as having the cancer and/or tumor of interest, and preparing a cancer vaccine composition for the cancer of interest, wherein the cancer vaccine composition comprises a second population of peptides comprising one or more peptides in the first population or a nucleic acid sequence encoding the one or more peptides, thereby producing the vaccine for the cancer and/or tumor of interest. Also disclosed are vaccine compositions and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON
  • Patent number: 11168121
    Abstract: Compositions, methods, systems, apparatus and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed for reducing the susceptibility of a population and/or members thereof to cancer, which may include anti-cancer vaccines, components thereof which may include novopeptides, and methods relating thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CALVIRI, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Publication number: 20210223257
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for determining microsatellite instability. In some embodiments, the disclosed methods and systems are used for determining whether a cancer patient has high microsatellite instability (MSI-H). MSI-H patients have remarkably good responses to immunotherapy, such as checkpoint inhibitors immunotherapy. Therefore, the disclosed methods and systems can be used for identifying MSI-H and thus, patients as candidates for immunotherapy. In turn, the disclosed methods and systems can be used to predict responsiveness to immunotherapy. In some embodiments, the methods further include providing an immunotherapy to the MSI-H patient. Also disclosed are vaccines and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Phillip STAFFORD, Jian ZHANG, Luhui SHEN
  • Publication number: 20210196805
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of treating cancer in dogs using personalized cancer vaccines comprising peptides having frameshift mutations caused by errors in transcription and splicing of an mRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Luhui SHEN
  • Publication number: 20210199654
    Abstract: A method of producing a diagnostic peptide array, a diagnostic peptide array produced therefrom and methods of using a diagnostic peptide array are disclosed. Also disclosed, is a method of detecting an antibody associated with a disease of condition, including: contacting a biological sample with a diagnostic peptide array; and detecting the binding of one or more antibodies to a peptide that is associated with a disease or condition of interest, thereby detecting the antibody associated with a disease of condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Publication number: 20210088532
    Abstract: Methods for antibody profiling and epitope mapping are provided herein. More particularly, methods for screening and mapping epitopes of candidate antibodies and protein target identification are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Patent number: 10900975
    Abstract: Methods for antibody profiling and epitope mapping are provided herein. More particularly, methods for screening and mapping epitopes of candidate antibodies and protein target identification are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventor: Stephen Albert Johnston
  • Publication number: 20210011024
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices to provide efficient methods and systems for discovering therapeutic targets, novel antigens, and for deciphering an immunosignature. The invention discloses methods for the identification of unique peptides which form an immunosignature. The invention can be applied to target identifying screening in drug discovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Albert Johnston, Joseph Barten Legutki, Muskan Kukreja
  • Publication number: 20200276285
    Abstract: Provided herein, are methods of treating cancer using personalized cancer vaccines comprising peptides having frameshift mutations caused by errors in transcription and splicing of an mRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Luhui SHEN
  • Publication number: 20200256861
    Abstract: Health is a complex state that represents the continuously changing outcome of nearly all human activities and interactions. The invention provides efficient methods and arrays for health monitoring, diagnosis, treatment, and preventive care. The invention monitors a broad range of identifying molecules from a subject, such as circulating antibodies, and the invention evaluates a pattern of binding of those molecules to a peptide array. The characterization of the pattern of binding of such molecules to a peptide array with the methods of the invention provide a robust measure of a state of health of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Albert JOHNSTON, Phillip STAFFORD, Neal WOODBURY