Patents Assigned to Astellas Pharma Inc.
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Patent number: 10731133Abstract: A method for acquiring and producing high-purity renal progenitor cells from a renal progenitor cell population into which pluripotent stem cells are induced to differentiate, by identifying a cell surface antigen marker specific to renal progenitor cells. The disclosed method may include, for example, the steps of: (i) culturing the pluripotent stem cells under conditions that induce differentiation into renal progenitor cells; and (ii) sorting a cell population from the cells obtained at step (i), by using at least one cell surface marker selected from the group consisting of CD9(?), CD55(?), CD106(+), CD140a(+), CD140b(+), CD165(+), CD271(+) and CD326(?).Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., Kyoto UniversityInventors: Tatsuya Kawamoto, Yukiko Yamagishi, Kenji Osafune
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Patent number: 10710988Abstract: [Problem] To provide a compound useful as an MC4 receptor agonist. [Means for Solution] The present inventors studied MC4 receptor agonists, and have found that a piperazine derivative has an MC4 receptor agonistic action, thereby completing the present invention. The piperazine derivative of the present invention has an MC4 receptor agonistic action, and can be used as an agent for preventing or treating bladder and/or urinary tract diseases, in particular, underactive bladder, hypotonic bladder, acontractile bladder, detrusor underactivity, neurogenic bladder, urethral relaxation failure, detrusor-external urethral sphincter dyssynergia, and voiding dysfunctions in benign prostatic hyperplasia.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Takashi Sugane, Norio Asai, Hiroyuki Moritomo, Daisuke Yamashita, Naomi Hosogai
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Patent number: 10689393Abstract: Novel tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative compounds are disclosed herein that may be used as an active ingredient for a pharmaceutical composition, and in particular, for a pharmaceutical composition useful for preventing or treating a disease or condition responsive to modulation of the contractility of the skeletal sarcomere. This may be accomplished, for example, by modulation of the troponin complex of the fast skeletal muscle sarcomere through one or more of fast skeletal myosin, actin, tropomyosin, troponin C, troponin I, and troponin T, and fragments and isoforms thereof. The tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative compounds can thus be used as an agent for preventing or treating 1) neuromuscular disorders, 2) disorders of voluntary muscle, 3) CNS disorders in which muscle weakness, atrophy, and fatigue are prominent symptoms, 4) muscle symptoms stemming from systemic disorders, and 5) dysfunctions of pelvic floor and urethral/anal sphincter muscle.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., Cytokinetics, IncorporatedInventors: Ippei Sato, Takashi Kamikubo, Masanori Miura, Yuji Matsushima, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Shiina, Susumu Yamaki, Tomoyuki Saito, Hiroshi Kiyohara, Munemichi Ohe, Kayoko Mihara, Bradley Paul Morgan, Fady Malik, Scott Emile Collibee, Luke Ashcraft, Pu-Ping Lu, Jeffrey Michael Warrington, Marc Garard
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Publication number: 20200171174Abstract: The problem to be solved is to provide an anti-human MUC1 antibody Fab fragment that is expected to be useful in the diagnosis and/or treatment of a cancer, particularly, the diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer or bladder cancer, and a diagnosis approach and/or a treatment approach using a conjugate comprising the Fab fragment. The solution is an anti-human MUC1 antibody Fab fragment comprising a heavy chain fragment comprising a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 8 or 10, and a light chain comprising a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 12, and a conjugate comprising the Fab fragment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Akifumi MORINAKA, Hiroki SHIRAI, Kazunori HIRAYAMA, Naomi HOSOGAI, Hitoshi DOIHARA
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Publication number: 20200140437Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treating lung cancer. [Means for Solution] The present inventors have studied a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treating lung cancer, and as a result, it was found that a quinazoline compound has an excellent G12C mutation KRAS inhibitory activity, and which can be used as a therapeutic agent for lung cancer, and thereby the present invention has been completed. The quinazoline compound of the present invention and a salt thereof may be used as the therapeutic agent for lung cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki Kuramoto, Michinori Akaiwa, Tomoaki Abe, Takanobu Araki, Susumu Yamaki, Shigeki Kunikawa, Tomoyoshi Imaizumi, Takahiro Nigawara, Keisuke Arakawa, Itsuro Shimada, Masashi Shimazaki, Yoshiki Satake, Kazushi Watanabe, Takanori Koike
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Patent number: 10619216Abstract: The object of the invention is to elucidate a new causative gene of cancer, polynucleotide, and thereby provide a method for detecting the polynucleotide or a polypeptide that is encoded by the polynucleotide, as well as a primer set or a detection kit for such detection. The detection method detects a fusion gene of a part of an RP2 gene and a part of an ARHGAP6 gene, or a fusion protein encoded by such gene. The primer set includes a sense primer designed from a section encoding RP2 and an antisense primer designed from a section encoding ARHGAP6.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., National Cancer CenterInventors: Hiroki Sasaki, Hitoshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 10619184Abstract: The object of the invention is to elucidate a new causative gene of cancer, polynucleotide, and thereby provide a method for detecting the polynucleotide or a polypeptide that is encoded by the polynucleotide, as well as a primer set or a detection kit for such detection. The detection method detects a fusion gene of a part of an OCLN gene and a part of an ARHGAP26 gene, or a fusion protein encoded by such gene. The primer set includes a sense primer designed from a section encoding OCLN and an antisense primer designed from a section encoding ARHGAP26.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., National Cancer CenterInventors: Hiroki Sasaki, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Makoto Asaumi, Kazuhisa Tsunoyama
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Patent number: 10604568Abstract: The present invention provides methods for diagnosis or treatment of cancer diseases involving cancer stem cells comprising targeting CLDN6. In particular, the present invention provides a method of determining cancer stem cells comprising detecting cells expressing CLDN6, Furthermore, the present invention provides a method of treating or preventing cancer comprising inhibiting and/or eliminating cancer stem cells by administering an antibody having the ability of binding to CLDN6 to a cancer patient.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignees: BioN Tech AG, TRON-TRANSLATIONALE ONKOLOGIE AN DER UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN DER JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ GEMEINNÜTZIGE GMBH, Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Ugur Sahin, Ozlem Tureci, Korden Walter, Meike Wagner, Maria Kreuzberg, Sabine Hacker, Stefan Jacobs
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Patent number: 10596256Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing GT468, including tumor-related diseases such as breast cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, hepatocellular cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, head & neck cancer, kidney cancer, in particular renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, sarcoma, myeloma, neuroblastoma, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, and thyroid cancer, and the metastatic forms thereof. In one embodiment, the tumor disease is metastatic cancer in the lung.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignees: TRON—TRANSLATIONALE ONKOLOGIE AN DER UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN DER JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ GEMEINNÜTZIGE GMBH, ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.Inventors: Ugur Sahin, Ozlem Tureci, Michael Koslowski, Rita Mitnacht-Kraus
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Patent number: 10583087Abstract: Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration, comprising 1-{5-[(5-{[(2R)-2-ethylpyrrolidin-1-yl]methyl}-4-[4-methoxy-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1,3-thiazol-2-yl)carbamoyl]pyrazin-2-yl}pyperidine-4-carboxylic acid, which is a compound having pH-dependent solubility, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a cellulose derivative. In the pharmaceutical composition for oral administration, the solubility and absorbability of the drug are improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.Inventors: Yumiko Suda, Toshiro Sakai, Ryo Kojima, Dal Oyama, Koji Nishimura, Kumi Naiki
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Publication number: 20200071404Abstract: [Problem] Provided is an anti-human CD73 antibody which is enhanced as compared to the antibody in the prior art and has an ability of recovering AMP-dependently suppressed T cell functions. [Means for Solution] Provided is an anti-human CD73 antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region comprising CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 31 to 35 of SEQ ID NO: 2, CDR2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 50 to 66 of SEQ ID NO: 2, and CDR3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 99 to 112 of SEQ ID NO: 2, and a light chain variable region comprising CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 24 to 34 of SEQ ID NO: 4, CDR2 consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 50 to 56 of SEQ ID NO: 4, and CDR3 consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 89 to 98 of SEQ ID NO: 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Masahito SATO, Hanae TOYONAGE, Fumio OSAKI, Tomohiro EGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200055868Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a compound suitable for a pharmaceutical composition, specifically a pharmaceutically composition for treating nocturia. The inventors have assumed that inhibition of nocturnal activity of placental leucine aminopeptidase (P-LAP), i.e. aminopeptidase that cleaves AVP, would maintain and/or increase an endogenous AVP level to enhance the antidiuretic effect, which would contribute to a decreased number of nocturnal voids, and have extensively studied compounds which inhibit P-LAP. As a result, the inventors have found that (2R)-3-amino-2-{[4-(substituted pyridine)-2-yl]methyl}-2-hydroxy-propanoic acid derivatives have excellent P-LAP inhibitory activity. The inventors have evaluated antidiuretic effects in water-loaded rats and have found that the compounds increase endogenous AVP levels by inhibiting P-LAP and consequently reduce urine production.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicants: Astellas Pharma Inc., KOTOBUKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi KAWAGUCHI, Akihiro ISHIHATA, Yusuke INAGAKI, Kazuyuki TSUCHIYA, Tadaatsu HANADATE, Akira KANAI, Hiroyuki KAIZAWA, Junichi KAZAMI, Hiroshi MORIKAWA, Masashi HIRAMOTO, Kentaro ENJO, Hajime TAKAMATSU
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Patent number: 10556906Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treating lung cancer. [Means for Solution] The present inventors have studied a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treating lung cancer, and as a result, it was found that a quinazoline compound has an excellent G12C mutation KRAS inhibitory activity, and which can be used as a therapeutic agent for lung cancer, and thereby the present invention has been completed. The quinazoline compound of the present invention and a salt thereof may be used as the therapeutic agent for lung cancer.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.Inventors: Kazuyuki Kuramoto, Michinori Akaiwa, Tomoaki Abe, Takanobu Araki, Susumu Yamaki, Shigeki Kunikawa, Tomoyoshi Imaizumi, Takahiro Nigawara, Keisuke Arakawa, Itsuro Shimada, Masashi Shimazaki, Yoshiki Satake, Kazushi Watanabe, Takanori Koike
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Patent number: 10548845Abstract: Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration, comprising 1-{5-[(5-{[(2R)-2-ethylpyrrolidin-1-yl]methyl}-4-[4-methoxy-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1,3-thiazol-2-yl)carbamoyl]pyrazin-2-yl}pyperidine-4-carboxylic acid, which is a compound having pH-dependent solubility, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a cellulose derivative. In the pharmaceutical composition for oral administration, the solubility and absorbability of the drug are improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.Inventors: Yumiko Suda, Toshiro Sakai, Ryo Kojima, Dal Oyama, Koji Nishimura, Kumi Naiki
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Patent number: 10532979Abstract: Phenyldifluoromethyl-substituted prolinamide compounds that have a cathepsin S inhibitory effect, and are usable as active ingredients of pharmaceutical compositions for preventing and/or treating autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis, allergies, or graft rejection of an organ, bone marrow or tissue.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.Inventors: Yutaka Nakajima, Sunao Imada, Eriko Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Tsuchiya, Yu Harayama, Shunichiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10517966Abstract: The problem to be solved is to provide an anti-human MUC1 antibody Fab fragment that is expected to be useful in the diagnosis and/or treatment of a cancer, particularly, the diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer or bladder cancer, and a diagnosis approach and/or a treatment approach using a conjugate comprising the Fab fragment. The solution is an anti-human MUC1 antibody Fab fragment comprising a heavy chain fragment comprising a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 8 or 10, and a light chain comprising a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 12, and a conjugate comprising the Fab fragment.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Akifumi Morinaka, Hiroki Shirai, Kazunori Hirayama, Naomi Hosogai, Hitoshi Doihara
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Publication number: 20190382403Abstract: Provided are a novel compound having CDK8 and/or CDK19 inhibitory activity, and a production method for Tregs. The treatment of T cells with a CDK8 and/or CDK19 inhibitor induces Foxp3 in the T cells. Foxp3+ T cells can be induced by treating Foxp3? T cells with the CDK8 and/or CDK19 inhibitor in vitro. Thus, Tregs can be induced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: Kyoto University, Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Shimon SAKAGUCHI, Naganari OHKURA, Norihisa MIKAMI, Shuh NARUMIYA, Masahiko AKAMATSU, Guliang XIA, Hironori HARADA, Naoto NAKAMURA, Satoru UJIHARA, Hisao HAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10507251Abstract: The problem to be solved is to provide an anti-human MUC1 antibody Fab fragment that is expected to be useful in the diagnosis and/or treatment of a cancer, particularly, the diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer or bladder cancer, and a diagnosis approach and/or a treatment approach using a conjugate comprising the Fab fragment. The solution is an anti-human MUC1 antibody Fab fragment comprising a heavy chain fragment comprising a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 8 or 10, and a light chain comprising a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 12, and a conjugate comprising the Fab fragment.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Akifumi Morinaka, Hiroki Shirai, Kazunori Hirayama, Naomi Hosogai, Hitoshi Doihara
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Publication number: 20190336552Abstract: The present invention provides a genetically recombinant vaccinia virus effective in preventing or treating cancer. Specifically, the present invention provides a recombinant vaccinia virus lacking functions of VGF and O1L and having a gene encoding B5R in which an SCR domain has been deleted. Specifically, the present invention provides a vaccinia virus comprising two polynucleotides, a polynucleotide encoding IL-7 and a polynucleotide encoding IL-12; a combination kit of two vaccinia viruses, a vaccinia virus comprising a polynucleotide encoding IL-7 and a vaccinia virus comprising a polynucleotide encoding IL-12; and use of the two vaccinia viruses in combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicants: Astellas Pharma Inc., National University Corporation Tottori UniversityInventors: Takafumi Nakamura, Hajime KUROSAKI, Motomu NAKATAKE
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Publication number: 20190330280Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] It is intended to provide a fusion polypeptide that regulates the transcription of a target gene. [Solution] The present inventors have provided a fusion polypeptide comprising: a cell-penetrating peptide; a DNA-binding polypeptide; and a transcriptional regulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicants: Astellas Pharma Inc., National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Hiroshima UniversityInventors: Hideki ENDO, Yukihito ISHIZAKA, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Tetsushi SAKUMA