Patents Assigned to Amgen
  • Patent number: 7318925
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention described herein relate to antibodies directed to the antigen parathyroid hormone (PTH) and uses of such antibodies. In particular, in some embodiments, there are provided fully human monoclonal antibodies directed to the antigen PTH. In further embodiments, nucleotide sequences encoding, and amino acid sequences comprising, heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules, particularly sequences corresponding to contiguous heavy and light chain sequences spanning the framework regions and/or complementarity determining regions (CDRs), specifically from FR1 through FR4 or CDR1 through CDR3, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen Fremont, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorin Roskos, Ian Foltz, Chadwick King, Gregory Bell
  • Publication number: 20080009608
    Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acids encoding a novel ABC family cholesterol transporter, SSG. The herein-disclosed sequences can be used for any of a number of purposes, including for the diagnosis and treatment of cholesterol-associated disorders, including sitosterolemia, and for the identification of molecules that associate with and/or modulate the activity of SSG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Tian, Joshua Schultz, Bei Shan
  • Patent number: 7316911
    Abstract: A method is provided for the localized intravascular administration of a fibrinolytic metalloproteinase to a human subject in amounts that are both safe and effective to lyse an occluding fibrin-containing blood clot, while also avoiding the neutralizing effects of ?2-macroglobulin in the circulating blood. A method is also provided for the treatment of a blood clot in, around or attached to an indwelling vascular access device. A method for restoring patency and function of an indwelling vascular access device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher F. Toombs
  • Patent number: 7314933
    Abstract: Substituted nitrogen-containing heterocycles and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritus, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Mark H. Norman, Vassil I. Ognyanov, Robert M. Rzasa
  • Patent number: 7314728
    Abstract: A method is provided for the localized intravascular administration of a fibrinolytic metalloproteinase to a human subject in amounts that are both safe and effective to lyse an occluding fibrin-containing blood clot, while also avoiding the neutralizing effects of ?2-macroglobulin in the circulating blood. A method is also provided for the treatment of a blood clot in, around or attached to an indwelling vascular access device. A method for restoring patency and function of an indwelling vascular access device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Amgen, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher F. Toombs
  • Patent number: 7311908
    Abstract: Frozen and lyophilized compositions for a metalloproteinase fibrinolytic agent (fibrolase or NAT), a method for preparing the lyophilized composition, and a kit and method for reconstituting the lyophilized composition are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent S. Kendrick, Brian A. Peterson
  • Patent number: 7312024
    Abstract: Materials and methods are disclosed for modulating proliferation of cell types associated with Hodgkin's disease through inhibition of IL-13 and components in IL-13 associated signal transduction pathways. Methods to identify inhibitors, compositions comprising the inhibitors, and methods using the inhibitors to treat Hodgkin's disease are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Tak W. Mak, Ursula Kapp
  • Patent number: 7307088
    Abstract: Selected compounds are effective for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases, such as angiogenesis mediated diseases. The invention encompasses novel compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases and other maladies or conditions involving, cancer and the like. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Huang, Guoqing Chen, Aiwen Li, Babak Riahi, Andrew Tasker, Kevin Yang, Chester Chenguang Yuan
  • Patent number: 7304150
    Abstract: Methods for increasing and maintaining hematocrit in a mammal comprising administering a hyperglycosylated analog of erythropoietin are disclosed. An analog may be administered less frequently than an equivalent molar amount of recombinant human erythropoietin to obtain a comparable target hematocrit and treat anemia. Alternatively, a lower molar amount of a hyperglycosylated analog may be administered to obtain a comparable target hematocrit and treat anemia. Also disclosed are new hyperglycosylated erythopoietin analogs, methods of production of the analogs, and compositions comprising the analogs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Joan C. Egrie, Steven G. Elliott, Jeffrey K. Browne, Karen C. Sitney
  • Patent number: 7301022
    Abstract: Compounds having the general structure and compositions containing them, for the treatment of acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain, dental pain, general headache, migraine, cluster headache, mixed-vascular and non-vascular syndromes, tension headache, general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, inflammatory pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, neuropathic pain and associated hyperalgesia and allodynia, diabetic neuropathy pain, causalgia, sympathetically maintained pain, deafferentation syndromes, asthma, epithelial tissue damage or dysfunction, herpes simplex, disturbances of visceral motility at respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal or vascular regions, wounds, burns, allergic skin reactions, pruritus, vitiligo, general gastrointestinal disorders, gastric ulceration, d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Yunxin Y. Bo, Partha P. Chakrabarti, Ning Chen, Hongyu Liao, Mark H. Norman, Markian Stec, Nuria Tamayo, Xianghong Wang
  • Publication number: 20070265248
    Abstract: Selected substituted piperazine compounds are effective for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases, such as obesity and the like. The invention encompasses novel compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases and other maladies or conditions involving activation of the melanocortin receptor. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Fotsch, Premilla Arasasingham, Yunxin Bo, Ning Chen, Martin Goldberg, Nianhe Han, Feng-Yin Hsieh, Michael Kelly, Qingyian Liu, Mark Norman, Duncan Smith, Markian Stec, Nuria Tamayo, Ning Xi, Shimin Xu, Elizabeth Doherty
  • Publication number: 20070254338
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for making recombinant heteromeric proteins using a protein complementation assay employing complementation pairs of selectable markers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: R. Guy Caspary, Allison Bianchi, Pauline S. Smidt, Virginia L. Price, Martin J. Allen
  • Patent number: 7288253
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention described herein relate to antibodies directed to the antigen parathyroid hormone (PTH) and uses of such antibodies. In particular, in some embodiments, there are provided fully human monoclonal antibodies directed to the antigen PTH. In further embodiments, nucleotide sequences encoding, and amino acid sequences comprising, heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules, particularly sequences corresponding to contiguous heavy and light chain sequences spanning the framework regions and/or complementarity determining regions (CDRs), specifically from FR1 through FR4 or CDR1 through CDR3, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Fremont, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorin Roskos, Ian Foltz, Chadwick King
  • Publication number: 20070248692
    Abstract: Combination therapies are provided for the treatment of proliferative disorders which use a pentafluorobenzenesulfonamide of formula I and an antineoplastic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicants: AMGEN INC., HEALTH RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Fengzhi Li, Xiang Ling, Youcef Rustum, Susan Schwendner, Pieter Timmermans, Jacqueline Walling
  • Publication number: 20070249520
    Abstract: The present invention relates to injectable formulations of irritant agents, such as calcimimetics, that are pharmaceutically stable and demonstrate a reduced incidence of irritation, pain, phlebitis, precipitation and hemolysis upon injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Anuradha Gore, Anne Navratil, Seshadri Neervannan, Christopher Spancake, Roger Zanon
  • Patent number: 7285401
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for detecting an amplification product. Amplification is accomplished through the use of a plurality of detection probes. The present invention is also directed to a method for detecting a target nucleic acid sequence by contacting a test sample with an excess of at least three pairs of nucleic acid amplification probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Jones, Rodney M. Richards
  • Patent number: 7285269
    Abstract: Antibodies directed to the antigen TNF? and uses of such antibodies. In particular, fully human monoclonal antibodies directed to the antigen TNF?. Nucleotide sequences encoding, and amino acid sequences comprising, heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules, particularly sequences corresponding to contiguous heavy and light chain sequences spanning the framework regions and/or complementarity determining regions (CDR's), specifically from FR1 through FR4 or CDR1 through CDR3. Hybridomas or other cell lines expressing such immunoglobulin molecules and monoclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Fremont, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Babcook, Jaspal S. Kang, Orit Foord, Larry Green, Xiao Feng, Scott Klakamp, Mary Haak-Frendscho, Palaniswami Rathanaswami, Craig Pigott, Meina Liang, Yen-Wah Lee, Kathy Manchulenko, Raffaella Faggioni, Giorgio Senaldi, Qiaojuan Jane Su
  • Publication number: 20070244155
    Abstract: Compounds having the general formula I and/or the general formula II are useful, for example, for treating metabolic disorders in a subject where the variables are provided herein. Compositions and methods for using the compounds for preparing medicaments and for treating metabolic disorders such as, for instance, type II diabetes are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sharma, Michelle Akerman, Mario Cardozo, Jonathan Houze, An-Rong Li, Jinquian Liu, Jiwen Liu, Zhihua Ma, Julio Medina, Michael Schmitt, Ying Sun, Yingcai Wang, Zhongyu Wang, Liusheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 7282483
    Abstract: The present invention provides DNA sequences coding for a TNF-binding protein and for the TNF receptor of which this protein constitutes the soluble domain. The DNA sequences can be used for preparing recombinant DNA molecules in order to produce TNF-binding protein and TNF receptor. Recombinant TNF-binding protein is used in pharmaceutical preparations for treating indications in which TNF has a harmful effect. With the aid of the TNF receptor or fragments thereof or with the aid of suitable host organisms transformed with recombinant DNA molecules containing the DNA which codes for the TNF receptor or fragments or modifications thereof, it is possible to investigate substances for their interaction with the TNF receptor and/or for their effect on the biological activity of TNF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauptmann, Adolf Himmler, Ingrid Maurer-Fogy, Christian Stratowa
  • Patent number: 7282504
    Abstract: The invention relates to inhibitors of kinases, compositions comprising the inhibitors, and methods of using the inhibitors and inhibitor compositions. The inhibitors and compositions comprising them are useful for treating disease or disease symptoms. The invention also provides for methods of making kinase inhibitor compounds, methods of inhibiting kinase activity, and methods for treating disease or disease symptoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Armistead, Jean E Bemis, Lucian V DiPietro, Stephanie D. Geuns-Meyer, Gregory J. Habgood, Joseph L. Kim, Joseph J. Nunes, Vinod F. Patel, Leticia M. Toledo-Sherman