Patents Assigned to Amgen
  • Publication number: 20160016906
    Abstract: Provided are omecamtiv mecarbil dihydrochloride salt forms, compositions and pharmaceutical formulations thereof, and methods for their preparation and use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicants: AMGEN INC., CYTOKINETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng Cui, Henry Morrison, Karthik Nagapudi, Shawn Walker, Charles Bernard, Karl Bennett Hansen, Neil Fred Langille, Alan Martin Allgeier, Steven Mennen, Jacqueline Woo, Bradley Paul Morgan, Alex Muci
  • Patent number: 9238691
    Abstract: Provided are antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind to CCR2, preferably human CCR2, and that may inhibit CCR2. The present antibodies may bind to the first and/or second extracellular loops of CCR2. Isolated heavy and light chains derived from the antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies and chains are provided. Methods of making and using the anti-CCR2 antibodies or antigen-binding portions, and compositions comprising these antibodies or antigen-binding portions, including compositions for diagnosis and treatment, are provided. Also provided are gene therapy methods using nucleic acid molecules encoding the heavy and/or light chains that comprise the human anti-CCR2 antibodies or antigen-binding portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: Pfizer Inc., Amgen Fremont Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald P. Gladue, Bradley T. Keller, Shinji Ogawa, Arvind Rajpal, Laurie A. Tylaska, Shelley Sims Belouski, Larry L. Green, Meina Liang
  • Patent number: 9234041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind to insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-IR), which is preferably human IGF-IR. The invention also relates to human anti-IGF-IR antibodies, including chimeric, bispecific, derivatized, single chain antibodies or portions of fusion proteins. The invention also relates to isolated heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules derived from anti-IGF-IR antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such molecules. The present invention also relates to methods of making anti-IGF-IR antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions thereof for diagnosis and treatment. The invention also provides gene therapy methods using nucleic acid molecules encoding the heavy and/or light immunoglobulin molecules that comprise the human anti-IGF-IR antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: Pfizer Inc., Amgen Fremont Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce D. Cohen, Jean Beebe, Jr., Penelope E. Miller, James D. Moyer, Jose Ramon Corvalan, Michael Gallo
  • Publication number: 20160002185
    Abstract: The present invention provides MDM2 inhibitor compounds of Formula (I), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables are defined above, which compounds are useful as therapeutic agents, particularly for the treatment of cancers. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions that contain an MDM2 inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Michael D. BARTBERGER, Hilary Plake BECK, Michael R. DEGRAFFENREID, Brian M. FOX, Felix GONZALEZ LOPEZ DE TURISO, Lisa D. JULIAN, Frank KAYSER, Julio C. MEDINA, Steven H. OLSON, Yosup REW, Philip M. ROVETO, Daqing SUN, Xuelei YAN
  • Publication number: 20160000932
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing a pharmacologically active compound, in which at least one internal conjugation site of an Fc domain sequence is selected that is amenable to conjugation of an additional functional moiety by a defined conjugation chemistry through the side chain of an amino acid residue at the conjugation site. An appropriate amino acid residue for conjugation may be present in a native Fc domain at the conjugation site or may be added by insertion (i.e., between amino acids in the native Fc domain) or by replacement (i.e., removing amino acids and substituting different amino acids). In the latter case, the number of amino acids added need not correspond to the number of amino acids removed from the previously existing Fc domain. This technology may be used to produce useful compositions of matter and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Colin V. GEGG, Kenneth W. WALKER, Leslie P. MIRANDA, Fei XIONG
  • Patent number: 9227019
    Abstract: An assembly includes a pre-filled syringe including a barrel with a first end and a second, open end, a plunger disposed within the barrel and spaced between the first end and the second, open end, a product disposed in the barrel between the first end of the barrel and the plunger, and an outwardly-directed rim disposed about the barrel at the second, open end. In addition, the assembly includes an identification tag secured to the outwardly-directed rim of the barrel of the syringe with an outwardly-facing surface of the tag overlying the second, open end of the barrel, the tag having an identifier disposed on the surface of the tag, the identifier including data regarding the pre-filled syringe, the product disposed in the barrel, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Robert W. Swift, Donald Wilson
  • Patent number: 9228168
    Abstract: The invention provides stable feed media containing pyruvate and methods for stabilizing feed media by adding pyruvate. The invention further provides methods for producing proteins using such media and proteins produced through the use of such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Arvia Eleanor Morris, Aurora Villegas Viaje, Erika Pineda
  • Publication number: 20150376286
    Abstract: Antigen binding proteins that bind to human CGRP receptor (CGRP R) are provided. Nucleic acids encoding the antigen binding protein, vectors, and cells encoding the same are also provided. The antigen binding proteins can inhibit binding of CGRP R to CGRP, and are useful in a number of CGRP R related disorders, including the treatment and/or prevention of migraine headaches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Thomas C. BOONE, David W. BRANKOW, Colin V. GEGG, JR., Shaw-Fen Sylvia HU, Chadwick T. KING, Hsieng Sen LU, Licheng SHI, Cen XU
  • Patent number: 9221915
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that bind to the extracellular domain (ECD) of activin receptor-like, kinase-1 (ALK-1) and that function to abrogate the ALK-1/TGF-beta-1/Smad1 signaling pathway. The invention also relates to heavy and light chain immunoglobulins derived from human anti-ALK-1 antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such immunoglobulins. The present invention also relates to methods of making human anti-ALK-1 antibodies, compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions. The invention also relates to transgenic animals or plants comprising nucleic acid molecules of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: Pfizer Inc., Amgen Fremont Inc.
    Inventors: Shelley Sims Belouski, Sirid-Aimée Kellerman, Michael Aidan North, Karin Kristina Amundson, Vahe Bedian, Dana Dan Hu-Lowe, Xin Jiang, Shannon Marie Karlicek, James Arthur Thomson, Jianying Wang, Grant Raymond Wickman, Jingchuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150359850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating ovarian cancer in a subject by administering to the subject by evaluating the subject's expression levels of specific biomarkers or angiogenic an anti-activin-A compound, such as an anti-activin-A antibody or an activin-A-binding receptor. In some embodiments, at least two compounds are administered to the subject, where the first compound is an anti-activin A compound, and the second compound is a chemotherapeutic compound, for example capecitabine. The invention further relates to methods of identifying subjects for treatment factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicants: SANTA MARIA BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC., AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Huiquan Han, Christopher Michael Haqq, Isaac Ciechanover, Xiaolan Zhou, John Zhao-Nian Lu
  • Patent number: 9212182
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are inhibitors of voltage-gated sodium channels, in particular Nav1.7. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases associated with the activity of sodium channels such as pain disorders and itch. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Weiss, Alessandro Boezio, Christiane Boezio, John R. Butler, Margaret Yuhua Chu-Moyer, Erin F. Dimauro, Thomas Dineen, Russell Graceffa, Angel Guzman-Perez, Hongbing Huang, Charles Kreiman, Daniel La, Isaac E. Marx, Benjamin Charles Milgrim, Hanh Nho Nguyen, Emily Peterson, Karina Romero, Brian Sparling
  • Publication number: 20150353542
    Abstract: Methods of modulating the properties of a cell culture expressing a protein of interest are provided. In various embodiments the methods relate to the addition of cell cycle inhibitors to growing cell cultures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Zhimei DU, John Douglas MCCARTER, Pranhitha REDDY, Andrew William SNOWDEN, Lawrence R. MCGEE, John Gordon ALLEN, David Lawrence TREIBER, Kathleen KEEGAN, Zhihong LI
  • Patent number: 9200040
    Abstract: Disclosed are peptides that bind to Ang-2. Also disclosed are peptibodies comprising the peptides, methods of making such peptides and peptibodies, and methods of treatment using such peptides and peptibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Daniel Oliner, Hosung Min
  • Patent number: 9200060
    Abstract: The invention relates to monomeric Fc polypeptides and methods of making and using such polypeptides. The polypeptides comprise substitution of one or more hydrophobic interface residues in the CH3 region with a polar amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Gunasekaran Kannan, Hongxing Zhou, Nancy Sun
  • Publication number: 20150335748
    Abstract: A method of stabilizing an aqueous protein or antibody formulation is disclosed herein. Additionally, stable pharmaceutical formulations are contemplated which comprise a biologically active protein, a destabilizing concentration of preservative and a stabilizing concentration of osmolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Tiangsheng LI, Christopher James Sloey
  • Patent number: 9192665
    Abstract: The present invention provides means and methods for treating diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Specifically, a bispecific CD19×CD3 antibody which engages T cells via its CD3 binding portion and concomitantly binds to CD19 on the surface of in particular, lymphoma cells via its CD19 binding portion (i.e. a bispecific T cell engager, “BiTE”) is administered for use in the treatment of tumorous mass of lymophoreticular tissue and/or extranodal lymphoma caused by DLBCL in a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: AMGEN RESEARCH (MUNICH) GMBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Zugmaier, Dirk Nagorsen, Juergen Scheele
  • Publication number: 20150329538
    Abstract: The invention relates to amide-containing compounds of formula (1), and salts thereof. In some embodiments, the invention relates to inhibitors or modulators of Pim-1 and/or Pim-2, and/or Pim-3 protein kinase activity or enzyme function. In still further embodiments, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds disclosed herein, and their use in the prevention and treatment of Pim kinase related conditions and diseases, preferably cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Victor CEE, Frank CHAVEZ, JR., Jian J. CHEN, Essa Hu HARRINGTON, Bradley HERBERICH, Claire L.M. JACKSON, Brian A. LANMAN, Thomas T. NGUYEN, Mark H. NORMAN, Liping H. PETTUS, Anthony B. REED, Adrian L. SMITH, Nuria A. TAMAYO, Andrew TASKER, Hui-Ling WANG, Bin WU, Ryan WURZ
  • Patent number: 9187486
    Abstract: The invention relates to bicyclic compounds of formulas I and I?, and salts thereof. In some embodiments, the invention relates to inhibitors or modulators of Pim-1 and/or Pim-2, and/or Pim-3 protein kinase activity or enzyme function. In still further embodiments, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds disclosed herein, and their use in the prevention and treatment of Pim kinase related conditions and diseases, preferably cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Derin C. D'amico, Bradley J. Herberich, Claire L. M. Jackson, Liping H. Pettus, Andrew Tasker, Hui-Ling Wang, Bin Wu, Ryan Wurz
  • Publication number: 20150322151
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a human antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof or an antibody construct comprising a human binding domain or antigen binding fragment thereof capable of binding to human CDH19 on the surface of a target cell. The disclosure relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding the antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof contained in the antibody construct, a vector comprising the nucleic acid sequence and a host cell transformed or transfected with the vector. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a process for the production of the antibody construct of the disclosure, a medical use or a method of treatment using the antibody construct and a kit comprising the antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof or the antibody construct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Shouhua Xiao, Zheng Pan, Dineli Wickramasinghe, M. Shawn Jeffries, Chadwick Terence King, Brian Mingtung Chan
  • Patent number: RE45847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind to MAdCAM, preferably human MAdCAM and that function to inhibit MAdCAM. The invention also relates to human anti-MAdCAM antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof. The invention also relates to antibodies that are chimeric, bispecific, derivatized, single chain antibodies or portions of fusion proteins. The invention also relates to isolated heavy and light chain immunoglobulins derived from human anti-MAdCAM antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such immunoglobulins. The present invention also relates to methods of making human anti-MAdCAM antibodies, compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions for diagnosis and treatment. The invention also provides gene therapy methods using nucleic acid molecules encoding the heavy and/or light immunoglobulin molecules that comprise the human anti-MAdCAM antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: Pfizer Inc., Amgen Fremont Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Pullen, Elizabeth Molloy, Sirid-Aimee Kellermann, Larry L. Green, Mary Haak-Frendscho