Patents Assigned to ACEA BioSciences
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Patent number: 9623027Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
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Patent number: 9625472Abstract: The present invention includes devices, systems, and methods for assaying cells using cell-substrate impedance monitoring. In one aspect, the invention provides cell-substrate impedance monitoring devices that comprise electrode arrays on a nonconducting substrate, in which each of the arrays has an approximately uniform electrode resistance across the entire array. In another aspect, the invention provides cellular assays that use impedance monitoring to detect changes in cell behavior or state. In some preferred aspects, the assays are designed to investigate the affects of compounds on cells, such as cytotoxicity assays.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Xiao Xu, Yama Abassi, Xiaobo Wang, Jiangbo Gan
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Patent number: 9612234Abstract: A method of determining one or more beating parameters for use in cardiomyocyte beating analysis including: providing a cell analysis device including wells, each well including a sensor capable of monitoring beating of cardiomyoctes in millisecond time resolution; adding cardiomyocytes to the wells; monitoring the beating of the cardiomyocytes in millisecond time resolution to obtain a plurality of beating measurements; and calculating one or more beating parameters from the plurality of beating measurements.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Nan Li, Xiaobo Wang, Yama A. Abassi, Biao Xi, Wen Fu Zhang, Xiao Xu
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Patent number: 9586965Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of proliferation disorders and other diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as, but not limited to, EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, BLK, BMX/ETK, BTK, FLT3(D835Y), ITK, JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, TEC and TXK) and/or the respective pathways.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
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Patent number: 9575063Abstract: An optical engine for use in a bench top flow cytometer, the optical engine comprising a set of lasers; a different set of beam shaping optics for each laser, wherein each set comprises two lenses to adjustably focus light horizontally along an x-axis to a same horizontal position and vertically along a y-axis to a different vertical position along a same plane; collection optics for collecting fluorescence from the flow cell; filtration optics that filter the collected fluorescence from the flow cell into different detection channels according to wavelength ranges; and a detector for each detection channel that converts the filtered fluorescence to electrical signals, wherein electrical signals are processed so that the fluorescence from each laser at the different vertical positions is distinguished at the same detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Nan Li, Ye Chen, Hyunsun Chung, Zengqiang Li, Xiaobo Wang
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Patent number: 9568423Abstract: A system for detecting signal components of light induced by multiple excitation sources including: a flow channel including at least two spatially separated optical interrogation zones; a non-modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a first wavelength at a near constant intensity onto a first of the optical interrogation zones; a modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a second wavelength with an intensity modulated over time at a modulating frequency onto a second of the optical interrogation zones; a detector subsystem comprising a set of detectors configured to detect light emitted from particles flowing through the at least two optical interrogation zones and to convert the detected light into a total electrical signal; and a processor that determines signal components from the light detected from each of the optical interrogation zones.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Nan Li, Jian Wu, Ye Chen, Tianxing Wang, Xiaobo Wang
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Patent number: 9464089Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compounds, compositions and methods, especially as they are related to compositions and methods for the treatment and/or prevention of a proliferation disorder, a cancer, a tumor, an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, psoriasis, dry eye or an immunologically related disease, and in some embodiments diseases or disorders related to the dysregulation of kinase such as, but not limited to, EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, BLK, BMX/ETK, FLT3(D835Y), ITK, TEC, TXK, BTK, or JAK, and the respective pathways.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
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Patent number: 9399787Abstract: A method of performing an assay of a response of two or more cell types to a test compound, including: providing a device for monitoring cell-substrate impedance, adding at least two different cell types to the device; adding at least one test compound to form at least two test compound wells; providing at least two control wells; monitoring impedance of the at least two test compound wells and of the at least two control wells at three or more time points after adding the at least one test compound; and analyzing measured impedance from the at least two test compound wells and from the at least two control wells at the three or more time points to obtain information on the response of the different cell types to the at least one test compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Yama A. Abassi, Xiaobo Wang, Xiao Xu
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Patent number: 9200246Abstract: An insert device and co-culture device assembly incorporating the insert device, which includes an insert chamber with two fluid impermeable side walls that extend from a microporous bottom to an open top to form an inner cavity. The first side wall is shaped to form a convex arc that follows between about half of a circumference of the well and less than an entire circumference of the well. The second side wall joins ends of the first side wall and protrudes inward towards a center of the convex arc. A flange extends outward from or beneath the top and is notched to form a gap adjacent to the second side wall, which forms an access port allowing access to the lower chamber with a micropipette tip when the insert device is inserted into a well of a single or multi-well plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Donald Thomas, Wei Li, Ning Ke, Nan Li, Adrian Papas, Manfred Watzele, Alexander Seiler, Tianxing Wang, Yama Abassi, Xiaobo Wang
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Patent number: 9158118Abstract: A prism including a substrate faceted to provide a plurality of flat surfaces, wherein at least two of the plurality of surfaces, each including a filter coating, form at least two filter surfaces, wherein each filter surface selectively permits passage of a predetermined wavelength and reflects remaining wavelengths along an optical path towards another of the plurality of surfaces, optionally another filter surface, wherein an angle of incidence of each of the plurality of surfaces along the optical path is equal or nearly equal. An apparatus incorporating the prism and its use for splitting a light spectrum into a plurality of wavelengths or wavelength ranges.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Nan Li, Ye Chen, Xiaobo Wang
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Patent number: 9034885Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: ACEA BIOSCIENCES INC.Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
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Patent number: 8921041Abstract: The present invention includes devices and methods for transfecting a cell or cell population and dynamic monitoring of cellular events. A variety of microelectronic devices are provide that incorporate functions such as electroporation, modulation of a transmembrane potential and dynamic monitoring of cellular functions and mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Xiaobo Wang, Yama A. Abassi, Josephine Atienza, Xiao Xu, Junquan Xu
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Patent number: 8916357Abstract: Methods for identifying a compound capable of interacting with a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) including providing a device capable of measuring cell-substrate impedance, adding test cells expressing a RTK to the device, measuring first impedances, adding a compound to at least one compound well and adding a vehicle control to at least one control well, measuring second impedances of the compound well and the control well, determining the change in the impedance for the compound well and the one control well, comparing the change in impedance between the compound well and the control well, and identifying the compound interacts with the RTK if the comparison demonstrates a significant difference between the change in impedance.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Yama A. Abassi, Naichen Yu, Josephine Atienza, Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang
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Publication number: 20140203818Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for monitoring excitable cells, such as cardiomyocytes, on microelectrode arrays that couple the electro-stimulation of excitable cells to induce or regulate cardiomyocyte beating and the simultaneous measurement of impedance and extracellular recording to assess changes in cardiomyocyte beating, viability, morphology or electrophysical properties in response to a plurality of treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Xiaobo Wang, Wei Ouyang, Nan Li, Tianxing Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiao Xu, Yama A. Abassi
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Patent number: 8685988Abstract: The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Acea Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Xiao Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Long Mao, Li Zhao, Biao Xi
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Publication number: 20140057283Abstract: A method for assaying target molecules in a sample liquid, the method comprising: providing an impedance monitoring device operably connected to an impedance analyzer; adding a sample liquid suspected of having target molecules to the well thereby permitting binding of target molecules to the capture molecules; monitoring impedance of the well; and determining the presence, amount or concentration of target molecules in the liquid sample from the monitored impedance. The device includes a nonconducting substrate having a well, at least two electrodes fabricated on a bottom of the well and on a same plane, wherein the surfaces of the at least two electrodes are modified with capture molecules configured to bind target molecules in a liquid sample, and at least two connection pads electrically connected to the at least two electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INCInventor: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC
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Publication number: 20130200277Abstract: A system for detecting signal components of light induced by multiple excitation sources including: a flow channel including at least two spatially separated optical interrogation zones; a non-modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a first wavelength at a near constant intensity onto a first of the optical interrogation zones; a modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a second wavelength with an intensity modulated over time at a modulating frequency onto a second of the optical interrogation zones; a detector subsystem comprising a set of detectors configured to detect light emitted from particles flowing through the at least two optical interrogation zones and to convert the detected light into a total electrical signal; and a processor that determines signal components from the light detected from each of the optical interrogation zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INCInventor: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC
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Publication number: 20130190320Abstract: The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compounds, compositions and methods, especially as they are related to compositions and methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventor: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130143254Abstract: An insert device and co-culture device assembly incorporating the insert device, which includes an insert chamber with two fluid impermeable side walls that extend from a microporous bottom to an open top to form an inner cavity. The first side wall is shaped to form a convex arc that follows between about half of a circumference of the well and less than an entire circumference of the well. The second side wall joins ends of the first side wall and protrudes inward towards a center of the convex arc. A flange extends outward from or beneath the top and is notched to form a gap adjacent to the second side wall, which forms an access port allowing access to the lower chamber with a micropipette tip when the insert device is inserted into a well of a single or multi-well plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicants: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC., ACEA BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Donald Thomas, Wei Li, Ning Ke, Nan Li, Adrian Papas, Manfred Watzele, Alexander Seiler, Tianxing Wang, Yama Abassi, Xiaobo Wang
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Patent number: D684703Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignees: ACEA Biosciences, Inc., Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Manfred Watzele, Alexander Seiler, Donald Thomas, Wei Li, Tianxing Wang, Nan Li, Xiaobo Wang