Patents Assigned to AstraZeneca
  • Patent number: 9371291
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of the calcium salt of (E)-7-[4-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-isopropyl-2-[methyl(methylsulfonyl)amino]pyrimidin-5-yl](3R,5S)-3,5-dihydroxyhept-6-enoic acid, useful as an HMGCoA reductase inhibitor, from a compound of the formula (7) wherein A is an acetal or ketal protecting group and R is alkyl, via isolated crystalline compounds of the formula (8) or of formula (10) is described. Crystalline intermediates of formulae 7, 8 and 10 are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: AstraZeneca UK Limited, Shionogi & Company Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuo Okada, John Horbury, David Dermot Patrick Laffan
  • Publication number: 20160151373
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination comprising AZD5363, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and at least one androgen receptor signalling modulator selected from MDV-3100 (also known as enzalutamide), AZD3514, abiraterone (or an ester prodrug thereof: e.g. abiraterone acetate), and bicalutamide; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Each of these combinations may be useful in the treatment of cancer. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such combinations, and further relates to methods of treatment comprising the simultaneous, sequential or separate administration of AZD5363, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, with at least one androgen receptor signalling modulator as described above, to warm-blooded animal, such as a human for the treatment of cancer. The invention also relates to a kit comprising such combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventor: Barry Robert DAVIES
  • Publication number: 20160152623
    Abstract: There are disclosed certain 1-[2-(aminomethyl)benzyl]-2-thioxo-1,2,3,5-tetrahydro-4H-pyrrolo[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-one compounds of formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, together with compositions containing them and their use in therapy. The compounds are inhibitors of the enzyme MPO and are thereby particularly useful in the treatment or prophylaxis of cardiovascular disorders such as heart failure and coronary artery disease related conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Tord Bertil INGHARDT, Petra JOHANNESSON, Ulrik JURVA, Erik MICHAËLSSON, Eva-Lotte LINDSTEDT-ALSTERMARK, Nicholas TOMKINSON, Jeffrey Paul STONEHOUSE, Li-Ming Gan
  • Publication number: 20160136140
    Abstract: The invention concerns compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1 to R5 have any of the meanings defined hereinbefore in the description; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Robert Hugh Bradbury, David Buttar, Christopher De Savi, Craig Samuel Donald, Richard Albert Norman, Alfred Arthur Rabow, Gordon Stuart Currie, Heather Redfearn, Nadim Akhtar, Helen Elizabeth Williams, Matthew Osborne, Neda Yavari
  • Publication number: 20160137634
    Abstract: The invention concerns compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1 and R2 have any of the meanings defined hereinbefore in the description; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Bernard Christophe Barlaam, Benedicte Delouvrie, Craig Steven Harris, Christine Marie, Paul Lambert-Van der Brempt, Gilles Ouvry, Gary Patrick Reid, David Berry, Gary Peter Tomkinson
  • Patent number: 9339472
    Abstract: A coated tablet formulation is provided which includes a medicament such as the DPP4-inhibitor, saxaglipitin or its HCl salt, which is subject to intra-molecular cyclization, which formulation includes a tablet core containing one or more fillers, and other conventional excipients, which tablet core includes a coating thereon which may include two or more layers, at least one layer of which is an inner seal coat layer which is formed of one or more coating polymers, a second layer of which is formed of medicament which is the DPP4-inhibitor and one or more coating polymers, and an optional, but preferable third outer protective layer which is formed of one or more coating polymers. A method for forming the coated tablet is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Divyakant S. Desai, Bing V. Li
  • Publication number: 20160130249
    Abstract: The invention relates to quinazoline derivatives of formula (I), wherein m is an integer from 1 to 3; R1 represents halogeno or C1-3alkyl; X1 represents —O—; R2 is selected from one of the following three groups: 1) C1-5alkylR3 (wherein R3 is piperidin-4-yl which may bear one or two substituents selected from hydroxy, halogeno, C1-4alkyl, C1-4hydroxyalkyl and C1-4alkoxy; 2) C2-5alkenylR3 (wherein R3 is as defined hereinbefore); 3) C2-5alkynylR3 (wherein R3 is as defined hereinbefore); and wherein any alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group may bear one or more substituents selected from hydroxy, halogeno and amino; and salts thereof; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as active ingredient. The compounds of formula (I) and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof inhibit the effects of VEGF, a property of value in the treatment of a number of disease states including cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Thomas, Elaine Sophie Elizabeth Stokes, Laurent Francois Andre Hennequin
  • Publication number: 20160120950
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to stable pharmaceutical formulations and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicants: Amylin Pharmaceuticals, LLC, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
    Inventors: Robert N. Jennings, John T.H. Ong, Christopher A. Rhodes, Gregg Stetsko, Steven J. Prestrelski
  • Publication number: 20160113953
    Abstract: A method for treating NAFLD and/or NASH and suitable compositions for carrying out the method are claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventor: Karl Erik Goeran GANNEDAHL
  • Patent number: 9309267
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel derivatives that are suitable as precursors to compounds that are useful for imaging amyloid deposits in living patients, their compositions, methods of use and processes to make such compounds. The compounds deriving from these precursors are useful in methods of imaging amyloid deposits in brain in vivo to allow antemortem diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease by positron emission tomography (PET) as well as measuring clinical efficacy of Alzheimer's disease therapeutic agents. Furthermore, the present invention also discloses the precursor compounds in crystalline form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Seth Björk, Peter Johnström, Nils A. Nilsson, Katinka Ruda, Per M. Schou, Britt-Marie Swahn, Vern Delisser
  • Patent number: 9295644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to use of a composition for symptomatic relief, when needed, comprising, in admixture (a) a first active ingredient which is formoterol, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof or a solvate of such a salt; and (b) a second active ingredient which is budesonide; for the manufacture of a medicament for use in the prevention or treatment of an acute condition of asthma and/or intermittent asthma and/or episodes in chronic asthma. The invention further relates to a method for prevention or treatment of an acute condition of asthma and/or intermittent asthma and/or episodes in chronic asthma by administering, by inhalation, a composition comprising the first and second active ingredients as defined previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Tommy Ekström
  • Patent number: 9289565
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a medical dispenser, comprising an outlet and a plurality of sealed compartments containing medicament to be sequentially aligned with and dispensed through said outlet. Movement of an actuator sequentially causes mechanical energy to be built up and then released and converted into an indexing movement of the compartments. The disclosure also relates to an indexing method for a medical dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: John Briant, Patrick Campbell, Charles Cooke, Christopher Groombridge, James Daniel John, Trevor John Penhallurick, William Bakewell, Nicholas Harrison
  • Publication number: 20160074412
    Abstract: There is provided pyrimidinyl compounds of Formula (I), wherein: R2 is or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Foote, Johannes Wilhelmus, Maria Nissink, Paul Turner
  • Patent number: 9283337
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for entraining in an airflow a medicament powder contained in a cavity having a cavity opening. Large airflow vortices are provided, for instance, by use of an obstacle in a flow passage, The airflow with large vortices is arranged to by-pass the cavity opening, thereby generating an eddy in the cavity which contributes to entraining the powder in said airflow. The present disclosure also relates to a medical dispenser, for instance an inhaler, in which the method may be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Astrazeneca AB
    Inventors: Orest Lastow, Johan Remmelgas, John Briant
  • Publication number: 20160060240
    Abstract: The invention concerns chromenone derivatives of Formula I or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, n and R9 has any of the meanings defined hereinbefore in the description; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Bernard Christophe BARLAAM, Sebastien Louis DEGORCE, Christine Marie, Paul LAMBERT-VAN DER BREMPT, Remy Robert MORGENTIN, Patrick PLE
  • Patent number: 9254367
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a breath actuated inhaler (BAI) actuator may include a loading element capable of being loaded with an actuation force and a breath actuated trigger mechanism arranged to counteract the actuation force of the loading element and to fire the actuator by releasing the actuation force of the loading element in response to an inhalation breath. An actuation locking device may be moveable between a locked position wherein it relieves the actuation force from the trigger mechanism setting the trigger mechanism in a neutral position, and an armed position wherein the trigger mechanism is set in an armed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Nicholas Bowman, Jörgen Fruensgaard, Jörgen Funder Rasmussen, Henrik Hougaard Vilstrup, Keld Sloth Christensen
  • Patent number: 9248129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and their pharmaceutical compositions. In addition, the present invention relates to therapeutic methods for the treatment and/or prevention of A?-related pathologies such as Down's syndrome, ?-amyloid angiopathy such as but not limited to cerebral amyloid angiopathy or hereditary cerebral hemorrhage, disorders associated with cognitive impairment such as but not limited to MCI (“mild cognitive impairment”), Alzheimer's disease, memory loss, attention deficit symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or dementia including dementia of mixed vascular and degenerative origin, pre-senile dementia, senile dementia and dementia associated with Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy or cortical basal degeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Gabor Csjernyik, Sofia Karlstrom, Annika Kers, Karin Kolmodin, Martin Nylof, Liselotte Ohberg, Laszlo Rakos, Lars Sandberg, Fernando Sehgelmeble, Peter Soderman, Britt-Marie Swahn, Stefan Von Berg
  • Patent number: 9249181
    Abstract: There are provided compounds and methods for amidating the C-terminus of a polypeptide. The methods include reacting a polypeptide which includes a C-terminal thioester or C-terminal selenoester with any one of a defined set of auxiliary molecules under conditions suitable to produce a polypeptide adduct which includes the auxiliary molecule chemically bound at the C-terminal of the polypeptide. The auxiliary molecule can be a substituted or unsubstituted 2-phenyl-2-amino ethanethiol, a substituted or unsubstituted 2-phenyl-2-amino ethaneselenol, or a substituted xanthene. In the subsequent step, a portion of the auxiliary molecule is removed from the C-terminal of the polypeptide adduct and leaving the amide nitrogen under conditions suitable to form a C-terminal free amide polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: Amylin Pharmaceuticals, LLC, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
    Inventors: Chengzao Sun, Behrouz Bruce Forood, Gary Luo, Soumitra S. Ghosh
  • Patent number: 9248240
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device for injection of formulations into a patient. In one embodiment the injection is sub-cutaneous. The device is convenient for injecting viscous formulations that would otherwise clog conventional injection devices, for example formulations containing microspheres, suspensions, and other viscous substances. Generally, the device features a needle for piercing the skin, an internal chamber for holding and transmitting fluid, a plunger for applying pressure to the internal chamber, a switch for triggering withdrawal of the needle, a sheath at least partially encompassing the needle and having a flow path within the sheath, and a spring that expands when the switch is triggered, and which thereby at least partially withdraws the needle from the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Casey, Tyler J. Holschlag
  • Patent number: 9248140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I): and to their salts, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of use, and methods for their preparation. These compounds inhibit Bcl-2 and/or Bcl-XL activities and may be used for the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Robert Bruce Diebold, Thomas Woodrow Gero, Paul Grover, Shan Huang, Stephanos Ioannidis, Claude Afona Ogoe, Jamal Carlos Saeh