Patents Assigned to Albany Medical College
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Publication number: 20150030632Abstract: Establishment of an effective and uniform vaccine development strategy is key to conquering current and emerging infectious diseases. Despite successes against an array of bacterial agents, current approaches to vaccine development are as diverse as the microbes they target and require adjuvants that often have limited efficacy and/or toxic side effects. As a consequence, vaccine discovery is often slow, inefficient, and unsuccessful in the case of many high priority pathogens. The present disclosure suggests that vaccine generation for bacterial pathogens can be improved by optimizing the efficiency of processing/presentation of a bacterial immunogen via the targeting of immunogen to CR2 and/or TLR2 on APCs. This approach not only yields an adjuvant-free mucosal vaccine against a Category A biothreat agent, but also establishes a novel genetic approach/platform for vaccine development, which is applicable to many other infectious agents, thereby profoundly impacting preventive medicine/public health.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGEInventors: Karsten Hazlett, Edmund Gosselin, Timothy Sellati, Tiffany Zarrella
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Publication number: 20140227232Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment methods and methods for sustained delivery of one or more exogenous factors to desired nervous system sites. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the use of biodegradable microspheres to deliver exogenous factors, such as the morphogenic factor, sonic hedgehog (Shh), to the site of spinal cord injury. In certain embodiments, the Shh-releasing microspheres are administered together with stem cells, which may be spinal cord neural stem cells. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to regrowth of neural cells in both the central and peripheral nervous systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicants: ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE, REGENERATIVE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Sally Temple Stern, Natalia Lowry, Jeffrey Stern, Susan K. Goderie
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Publication number: 20140200613Abstract: Dynamic spinal plating systems that can be placed on the anterior aspect of the spine to aid in spinal fusion and surgical methods for using the dynamic spinal plating systems are disclosed. The dynamic spinal plating systems including a plate and at least one bone attachment mechanism. The plate including a superior end with at least one screw hole, an inferior end, and two lateral sides forming an opening that is transverse by the bone attachment mechanism. The dynamic spinal plating systems also include at least one screw plate with a center screw hole and two passageways that mate with two transverse members of the bone attachment mechanism. When implanted the vertebral stabilization devices may provide a degree of movement in the superior-inferior direction providing for a minimal change in length as the patient moves and as vertebral body height decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGEInventors: Darryl Dirisio, M. Parvez Shaikh
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Patent number: 8609329Abstract: Automated FRET imaging of membrane-bound receptor/ligand complexes can discriminate between a clustered organization of ligand/receptor complexes that occurs during the early endocytic stages following internalization and a random distribution characteristic of late stage disassociation of ligand from the receptor. In the case of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDL-R) and its ligand, LDL, this feature of FRET imaging forms the basis of an assay to monitor the endosomal release of cholesterol into the cell and identify compounds which alter pH in the endosome thereby inhibiting the disassociation of ligand and cholesterol from the receptor, a mechanism that is involved in regulation of plasma/serum cholesterol.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Margarida Barroso, Ronak Talati
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Patent number: 8420614Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting or reversing fibrotic disorders by administering a Hic-5 antagonist to a mammal in need thereof. The invention also includes methods for screening compounds to identify Hic-5 antagonists useful in inhibiting or reversing fibrotic disorders.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Livingston Van De Water, Ganary Dabiri, Christopher E. Turner
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Publication number: 20130059794Abstract: The invention relates to compounds that are analogs of a cyclic peptide, cyclo[EKTOVNOGN], AFPep, that has anti-estrotrophic activity. The analogs of the invention include peptides and peptidomimetics that inhibit estrogen receptor-dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGEInventors: Thomas T. Andersen, Herbert I. Jacobson, James A. Bennett, Leroy Joseph, Alberto Bryan
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Publication number: 20120109197Abstract: A spine prosthesis is provided and in particular, related to the facet joint of a spine. A spinal implant comprises a facet prosthesis including an insert to be positioned within a joint capsule between facets of a zygapophyseal joint. The insert may comprise a member having two opposing facet interfacing portions. A facet prosthesis exerts a distraction force between facets of a facet joint and may comprise a curable material to be injected into the facet joint. A facet prosthesis may also comprise a pair of magnets, each magnet coupled to a facet and oriented with like poles facing each other to provide a distracting force away from each other. A spine implant may also include an insert to be positioned within the joint capsule, a securing member comprising an elongate portion extending through part of a facet, and an anchor to anchor the securing member to the facet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicants: Albany Medical College, Kspine, Inc.Inventors: Allen L. Carl, Dan Sachs, Meir Rosenberg
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Patent number: 8133206Abstract: A safety intravenous catheter assembly includes a needle, a catheter hub having an axial bore extending through the catheter hub and a notch extending outwardly in the axial bore, a needle cover, and a notch clip connected to the needle cover. The notch clip is selectively maintained adjacent the needle throughout a range of positions from being in forceful contact with the needle to being generally spaced from the needle and selectively maintained adjacent the catheter hub throughout a range of positions from being in forceful contact with the catheter hub to being generally spaced from the catheter hub to lock the catheter hub to the needle cover while being operable to move the needle relative to the notch clip in a near frictionless relationship.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Elliott S. Greene, Jason A. Greene
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Patent number: 8126267Abstract: Computer-implemented image processing methods and apparatuses are presented for automatically selecting regions of interest within an image represented by pixel intensity values. A first pixel box is employed in progressively scanning and evaluating the image. If pixels within the first pixel box have pixel-intensity-related characteristics exceeding respective defined thresholds, then those pixels are identified as an area of interest and a second pixel box is employed in progressively scanning and evaluating the selected area of interest to identify regions of interest. Each area of interest is larger than a region of interest, and the second pixel box is smaller than the first. Regions of interest within the image are identified if one or more pixel-intensity-related characteristics of pixels within the second pixel box exceeds a second defined threshold, wherein the second threshold is greater than the first. Once selected, identifying information for the regions of interest is stored or output.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Ronak Talati, Margarida Barroso
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Patent number: 8114158Abstract: A spine prosthesis is provided and in particular, related to the facet joint of a spine. A spinal implant comprises a facet prosthesis including an insert to be positioned within a joint capsule between facets of a zygapophyseal joint. The insert may comprise a member having two opposing facet interfacing portions. A facet prosthesis exerts a distraction force between facets of a facet joint and may comprise a curable material to be injected into the facet joint. A facet prosthesis may also comprise a pair of magnets, each magnet coupled to a facet and oriented with like poles facing each other to provide a distracting force away from each other. A spine implant may also include an insert to be positioned within the joint capsule, a securing member comprising an elongate portion extending through part of a facet, and an anchor to anchor the securing member to the facet.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignees: Kspine, Inc., Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Allen L. Carl, Dan Sachs, Meir Rosenberg
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Patent number: 8067545Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions containing novel leptin peptides, preferably for the modulation of body mass (i.e., weight), more specifically for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in homeostasis of body weight and adipose tissue mass.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Patricia Grasso, Daniel W. Lee, Matthew C. Leinung
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Patent number: 8043345Abstract: A method for correcting a spinal deformity is provided. A spinal implant for correcting a spinal deformity includes a multipoint connector that connects to at least one vertebra of a spine at a plurality of locations and a force directing device that applies a force to the vertebra through the multipoint connector. The force directing device may include a rod which extends generally along an axis of the spine and a force directing member which is adjustably coupled to both the rod and the multipoint connector and which applies a corrective force to the at least one vertebra.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignees: K Spine, Inc., Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Allen L. Carl, Dan Sachs
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Patent number: 8022189Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions containing novel leptin peptides, preferably for the modulation of body mass (i.e., weight), more specifically for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in homeostasis of body weight and adipose tissue mass.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Patricia Grasso, Daniel W. Lee, Matthew C. Leinung
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Patent number: 8016860Abstract: A device and method for correcting a spinal deformity are provided. A spinal implant for correcting a spinal deformity includes a multipoint connector that connects to at least one vertebra of a spine at a plurality of locations and a force directing device that applies a force to the vertebra through the multipoint connector. The force directing device may include a rod which extends generally along an axis of the spine and a force directing member which is adjustably coupled to both the rod and the multipoint connector and which applies a corrective force to the at least one vertebra.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignees: K Spine, Inc., Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Allen L. Carl, Dan Sachs
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Publication number: 20110217264Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment methods and methods for sustained delivery of one or more exogenous factors to desired nervous system sites. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the use of biodegradable microspheres to deliver exogenous factors, such as the morphogenic factor, sonic hedgehog (Shh), to the site of spinal cord injury. In certain embodiments, the Shh-releasing microspheres are administered together with stem cells, which may be spinal cord neural stem cells. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to regrowth of neural cells in both the central and peripheral nervous systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicants: REGENERATIVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGEInventors: Sally Temple, Natalia Lowry, Jeffrey Stern, Susan K. Goderie
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Patent number: 8007784Abstract: The present invention is directed to a non-immunogenic cellular composition comprising: a cell having a cell surface and antigenic determinants on the cell surface; an optional linker molecule covalently attached to the cell surface; and a hydrophilic, biocompatible, non-immunogenicity providing compound or polymer (e.g., polyethylene glycol or a derivative thereof) covalently attached to the linker molecule or directly to the cell. In one embodiment, the linker molecule is covalently attached directly to the antigenic determinant on the cell surface. In an alternate embodiment, the linker molecule may be covalently attached to a non-antigenic site on the cell surface, but will camouflage the antigenic determinant on the cell surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Mark D. Scott, John W. Eaton
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Patent number: 8002801Abstract: A spine implant, in particular a stabilization or distraction device, is provided with an adjustable length. The implant has first and second portions for coupling to a first bony portion of a first vertebra and a second bony portion of a second vertebra, respectively, where the second bony portion is located at an oblique angle to the first bony portion. The spinal implant permits movement between the first bony portion and the second bony portion and is adjustable to change an amount of said movement between said first bony portion and said second bony portion after the implant is implanted.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignees: K Spine, Inc., Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Allen L. Carl, Dan Sachs, Meir Rosenberg
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Patent number: 7964701Abstract: The invention relates to compounds that include peptides that inhibit estrogen receptor dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Thomas T. Andersen, James A. Bennett, Herbert Jacobson
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Patent number: 7943577Abstract: Therapeutic compounds which are cell proliferation modulators, preferably inhibitors. These modulators contain amino acid structures that are arranged as a hydrophilic analog of an alpha-fetoprotein. The modulator may be a peptide itself, e.g., an octapeptide like that of SEQ ID NO: 5; a peptidomimetic; or may be in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable scaffold, such as a polycyclic hydrocarbon to which is attached the necessary amino acid structures for biological and/or chemical activity. The modulators of the invention are distinguished in one aspect over previous compounds in that they are orally active, and therefore do not have to be injected into the patient. The compositions and methods are useful for reducing estrogen-dependent and estrogen-independent growth of cells, and treating or preventing cancer, such as breast cancer, brain cancer, head-and-neck cancer, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, and skin cancer.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventors: Thomas T. Andersen, James A. Bennett, Herbert I. Jacobson, Fassil B. Mesfin
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Patent number: D673269Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Albany Medical CollegeInventor: Kody El-Mohtar