Abstract: The present invention relates to novel antibodies, particularly antibodies directed against deletion mutants of epidermal growth factor receptor and particularly to the type III deletion mutant, EGFRvIII. The invention also relates to human monoclonal antibodies directed against deletion mutants of epidermal growth factor receptor and particularly to EGFRvIII. Diagnostic and therapeutic formulations of such antibodies, and immunoconjugates thereof, are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 10, 2008
Date of Patent:
June 23, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Fremont Inc.
Inventors:
Richard Weber, Xiao Feng, Orit Foord, Larry Green, Jean Gudas, Bruce Keyt, Ying Liu, Palaniswami Rathanaswami, Robert Raya, Xiao Dong Yang, Jose Corvalan, Ian Foltz, Xiao-Chi Jia, Jaspal S. Kang, Chadwick T. King, Scott L. Klakamp, Qiaojuan Jane Su
Abstract: A drug delivery device includes a housing having an interior space, a needle having retracted and deployed states, an injector to move the needle between retracted and deployed states, and a reservoir disposed within the interior space, the reservoir configured to receive a volume of a drug and to be in fluid communication with the needle. The drug delivery device also includes a controller coupled to the injector and the reservoir, and configured to actuate the injector to move the needle from the retracted state to the deployed state only once, and to actuate the reservoir to deliver the volume of the drug to the patient as a single bolus after a preselected time period has elapsed, the controller disposed within the interior space and configured prior to being disposed within the interior space. The delivery device is wearable, disposable, and single-use.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2011
Date of Patent:
June 23, 2015
Assignee:
AMGEN INC.
Inventors:
Mark D. Holt, Alexander S. Cairns, Mathias Romacker
Abstract: Antigen binding proteins that interact with Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9) are described. Methods of treating hypercholesterolemia and other disorders by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of an antigen binding protein to PCSK9 are described. Methods of detecting the amount of PCSK9 in a sample using an antigen binding protein to PCSK9 are described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2014
Date of Patent:
June 16, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Simon Mark Jackson, Nigel Pelham Clinton Walker, Derek Evan Piper, Bei Shan, Wenyan Shen, Chadwick Terence King, Randal Robert Ketchem, Christopher Mehlin, Teresa Arazas Carabeo
Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are inhibitors of voltage-gated sodium channels, in particular Nav 1.7. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of sodium channels such as pain disorders. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of the present invention.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 7, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 9, 2015
Assignee:
AMGEN INC.
Inventors:
Thomas Dineen, Charles Kreiman, Matthew Weiss, Stephanie Geuns-Meyer
Abstract: Antigen binding proteins that interact with Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9) are described. Methods of treating hypercholesterolemia and other disorders by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of an antigen binding protein to PCSK9 are described. Methods of detecting the amount of PCSK9 in a sample using an antigen binding protein to PCSK9 are described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 3, 2011
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Simon Mark Jackson, Nigel Pelham Clinton Walker, Derek Evan Piper, Bei Shan, Wenyan Shen, Joyce Chi Yee Chan, Chadwick Terence King, Randal Robert Ketchem, Christopher Mehlin, Teresa Arazas Carabeo
Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are inhibitors of voltage-gated sodium channels, in particular Nav 1.7. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of sodium channels such as pain disorders. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of the present invention.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 6, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 21, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Christiane Boezio, Howard Bregman, James R. Coats, Erin F. Dimauro, Thomas Dineen, Bingfan Du, Russell Graceffa, Charles Kreiman, Daniel La, Isaac E. Marx, Nagasree Chakka, Hanh Nho Nguyen, Emily Anne Peterson, Matthew Weiss, Katrina W. Copeland, Holly L. Deak, Alessandro Boezio
Abstract: The present invention relates to the culture of animal cells in serum-free culture medium. The present invention provides particular dipeptides that can improve recombinant protein production and cell viability in such cultures, especially in the absence of peptones.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 21, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Sohye Kang, Rohini Deshpande, Rebecca E. McCoy, Leslie P. Miranda, Arvia E. Morris
Abstract: The present invention comprises a new class of compounds useful for the modulation of Beta-secretase enzyme activity and for the treatment of Beta-secretase mediated diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related conditions. In one embodiment, the compounds have a general Formula I wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, R2, R7, X, Y and Z of Formula I are defined herein. The invention also includes use of these compounds in pharmaceutical compositions for treatment, prophylactic or therapeutic, of disorders and conditions related to the activity of beta-secretase protein. Such disorders include, for example, Alzheimer's Disease, cognitive deficits, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and other central nervous system conditions related to and/or caused by the formation and/or deposition of plaque on the brain. The invention also comprises further embodiments of Formula I, intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of Formula I.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 21, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Jian Chen, Wenge Zhong, Patricia Lopez, Ryan White, Matthew Weiss, Ted Judd, Timothy Powers, Yuan Cheng, Thomas Dineen, Jonathan D. Low, Isaac E. Marx, Ana Elena Minatti
Abstract: The invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, thrombosis, and for decreasing or prevention of accumulation of cholesterol in a subject by modifying LCAT polypeptide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Mingyue Zhou, Wenyan Shen, Bei Shan, Margrit Schwarz, David Park Meininger, Tom Boone
Abstract: The present invention provides variant activin IIB soluble receptor polypeptides and proteins capable of binding and inhibiting the activities of activin A, myostatin, or GDF-11. The present invention also provides polynucleotides, vectors and host cells capable of producing the variant polypeptides and proteins. Compositions and methods for treating muscle-wasting and other diseases and disorders are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 1, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 7, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Jeonghoon Sun, Lei-Ting Tony Tam, Huiquan Han, Keith Soo-Nyung Kwak, Xiaolan Zhou, John Lu
Abstract: Myostatin antagonists, including myostatin binding antibodies, are disclosed. Also disclosed are nucleic acids encoding and cells including myostatin antagonists; methods of production; and methods of use.
Abstract: Chimeric molecules comprising receptor activator of NF-?B ligand (RANKL) antibodies and parathyroid hormone/parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH/PTHrP) peptides are described. Compositions and methods for the treatment of bone diseases are also described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2006
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Paul Kostenuik, Wenyan Shen, Thomas C. Boone
Abstract: Disclosed is an isolated immunoglobulin. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising the immunoglobulin, isolated nucleic acid encoding it, vectors, host cells, useful in methods of making it. In some embodiments the immunoglobulin comprises one to twenty-four pharmacologically active chemical moieties conjugated thereto, such as a pharmacologically active polypeptide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2011
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Kenneth W. Walker, Frederick W. Jacobsen, Taruna Arora
Abstract: There are disclosed alpha4beta7 heterodimer-specific antigen binding proteins, nucleic acids encoding them, and methods of making and using them.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 26, 2014
Publication date:
March 26, 2015
Applicant:
AMGEN INC.
Inventors:
Hailing Hsu, Ian Foltz, Frederick Jacobsen, Taruna Arora
Abstract: The disclosure provides compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-activin A binding proteins, including antibodies. In particular embodiments, the disclosure provides fully human, humanized, and chimeric anti-activin A antibodies that bind human activin A, activin A-binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and activin A-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Other embodiments provide nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating or diagnosing subjects having activin A-related disorders or conditions including cachexia related to gonadal cancer, other cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 24, 2014
Publication date:
March 26, 2015
Applicant:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Huiquan Han, Qing Chen, Keith Soo-Nyung Kwak, Xiaolan Zhou
Abstract: The present invention relates to CD27L antigen binding proteins, such an antibodies, polynucleotides encoding said CD27l antigen binding proteins, antibody drug conjugate compositions, and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases associated with CD27L expression.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 20, 2012
Date of Patent:
March 24, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
John M. Delaney, William Christian Fanslow, III, Chadwick Terence King
Abstract: Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods are provided that are useful in the treatment of CDK4-mediated disorders, such as cancer. The subject compounds are fused pyridine, pyrimide and triazine derivatives.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 7, 2014
Date of Patent:
March 17, 2015
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Richard V. Connors, Kang Dai, John Eksterowicz, Pingchen Fan, Benjamin Fisher, Jiasheng Fu, Kexue Li, Zhihong Li, Lawrence R. McGee, Rajiv Sharma, Xiaodong Wang, Dustin L. McMinn, Jeffrey T. Mihalic, Jeffrey Deignan
Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical combination comprising an alpha-isoform specific phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor compound, such as (S)-Pyrrolidine-1,2-dicarboxylic acid 2-amide 1-({4-methyl-5-[2-(2,2,2-trifluoro-1,1-dimethyl-ethyl)-pyridin-4-yl]-thiazol-2-yl}-amide), or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and an insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF1R) inhibitor (e.g., the IGF1R inhibitor ANTIBODY A, or a variant or derivative thereof), a pharmaceutical composition comprising such combination, methods for treating cancer comprising administration of therapeutically effective amounts of such inhibitors to a subject in need thereof, and uses of such combination for the treatment of cancer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 13, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 17, 2015
Assignees:
Novartis AG, Amgen, Inc.
Inventors:
Xizhong Huang, Malte Peters, Karl Maria Schumacher, Zhu Alexander Cao, Jennifer Lorraine Gansert, David Dong Eun Chang
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.