Patents Assigned to AstraZeneca
  • Publication number: 20110034432
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I): wherein: R1 is methoxymethyl; R2 is selected from —C(O)NR4R5, —SO2NR4R5, —S(O)pR4 and HET-2; HET-1 is a 5- or 6-membered, optionally substituted C-linked heteroaryl ring; HET-2 is a 4-, 5- or 6-membered, C- or N-linked optionally substituted heterocyclyl ring; R3 is selected from halo, fluoromethyl, difluoromethyl, trifluoromethyl, methyl, methoxy and cyano; R4 is selected from for example hydrogen, optionally substituted (1-4C)alkyl and HET-2; R5 is hydrogen or (1-4C)alkyl; or R4 and R5 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached may form a heterocyclyl ring system as defined by HET-3; HET-3 is for example an optionally substituted N-linked, 4, 5 or 6 membered, saturated or partially unsaturated heterocyclyl ring; p is (independently at each occurrence) 0, 1 or 2; m is 0 or 1; n is 0, 1 or 2; provided that when m is 0, then n is 1 or 2; or a salt, pro-drug or solvate thereof, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Craig JOHNSTONE, Darren MCKERRECHER, Kurt Gordon PIKE
  • Publication number: 20110028715
    Abstract: A novel adenine compound represented by the formula (1): wherein A represents an (un)substituted aromatic carbocycle or (un)substituted aromatic heterocycle; L1 and L2 each independently represents straightened or branched alkylene, etc.; R1 represents halogen, (un)substituted alkyl, (un)substituted alkenyl, (un)substituted alkynyl, (un)substituted cycloalkyl, (un)substituted aryl, or (un)substituted heteroaryl; R2 and R3 each independently represents hydrogen, or (un)substituted alkyl, (un)substituted alkenyl, (un)substituted alkynyl, (un)substituted cycloalkyl, (un)substituted saturated heterocycle, (un)substituted aryl, or (un)substituted heteroaryl, or R2 combines together with L2 or R3 to form (un)substituted 4- to 8-membered nitrogen-containing saturated heterocycle; X is oxygen, sulfur, SO, SO2, NR7, NR7CO wherein R7 is hydrogen or alkyl, or a single bond; provided that X is a single bond when R1 is halogen, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd., AstraZeneca Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Yoshiaki ISOBE, Tomoaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20110028488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination for use in the synergistic treatment of breast cancer comprising an antioestrogen and the Src kinase inhibitor AZD0530, a combination for the synergistic treatment of cancer comprising an EGFR TKI and the Src kinase inhibitor AZD0530 and a triple combination for the synergistic treatment of breast cancer comprising an antioestrogen, an EGFR TKI and the Src kinase inhibitor AZD0530.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Tim Paul GREEN
  • Publication number: 20110028529
    Abstract: New crystalline forms of 4-[4-(2-adamantylcarbamoyl)-5-tert-butyl-pyrazol-1-yl]benzoic acid; their use in the inhibition of 11?HSD1, processes for making them and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Gary Peter TOMKINSON
  • Publication number: 20110028471
    Abstract: There is provided a combination product comprising a VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor and a m TOR-selective kinase inhibitor, and methods for the production of an anti-cancer effect in a patient, which is accordingly useful in the treatment of cancer in a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Juliane Jürgensmeier, Georgina Speake
  • Publication number: 20110028530
    Abstract: New crystalline forms of 4-[4-(2-adamantylcarbamoyl)-5-tert-butyl-pyrazol-1-yl]benzoic acid; their use in the inhibition of 11?HSD1, processes for making them and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Gary Peter TOMKINSON
  • Publication number: 20110020360
    Abstract: Targeted binding agents directed to the antigen PDGFR-alpha and uses of such agents are disclosed herein. More specifically the invention relates to fully human monoclonal antibodies directed to the antigen PDGFR-alpha and uses of these antibodies. Aspects of the invention also relate to hybridomas or other cell lines expressing such antibodies. The described targeted binding agents and antibodies are useful as diagnostics and for the treatment of diseases associated with the activity and/or overexpression of PDGFR-alpha.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: NAOMI LAING, JASPAL SINGH KANG, IAN FOLTZ, GADI GAZIT-BOMSTEIN, XIAO-DANG YANG, SUE A. CARTLIDGE, DAVID CHARLES BLAKEY
  • Publication number: 20110021540
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula wherein R1, R3, L1, L2, G1, G2, A and m are as defined in the specification and optical isomers, racemates and tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; together with processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy. The compounds are inhibitors of microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Johan Bylund, Maria Ek, Jorg Holenz, Martin H. Johansson, Annika Kers, Katja Narhi, Gunnar Nordvall, Liselotte Ohberg, Daniel Sohn, Jenny Viklund, Stefan Von Berg
  • Patent number: 7875715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds that demonstrate antibacterial activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them as the active ingredient, to their use as medicaments and to their use in the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals such as humans. In particular this invention relates to compounds useful for the treatment of bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals such as humans, more particularly to the use of these compounds in the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals such as humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Gloria Breault, Charles Joseph Eyermann, Bolin Geng, Marshall Morningstar, Folkert Reck
  • Patent number: 7875626
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 4,5,6,7-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-one and 4,5-dihydropyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-one compounds of formula (I) and processes for preparing such compounds, their use in the treatment of obesity, psychiatric and neurological disorders, to methods for their therapeutic use and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Leifeng Cheng
  • Publication number: 20110015141
    Abstract: Methods are provided for treating cancers that have high glucose requirements and that express SGLT2 at levels higher than normal cells, such as metastatic cancers, for example, metastatic lung cancers, employing an SGLT2 inhibitor alone or in combination with a cytotoxic agent and to a composition containing a combination of an SGLT2 inhibitor and a cytotoxic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicants: BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY, ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Mario Maldonado, Paul Strumph
  • Publication number: 20110015393
    Abstract: 4-(4-Fluoro-3-(4-methoxypiperidine-1-carbonyl)benzyl)phthalazin-1(2H)-one as crystalline Form C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventor: Neil HAWKINS
  • Patent number: 7872035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist of the general formula (I) in the manufacture of a medicament for the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of a vascular headache condition such as migraine, in a subject suffering from, or susceptible to, such a vascular headache condition. A further aspect of the invention is a pharmaceutical formulation useful in any one of said vascular headache conditions, as well as a method of treatment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Harald Schrader
  • Patent number: 7872011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to selective inhibitors of phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinase ?, use of the selective inhibitors in anti-thrombotic therapy, and a method for screening compounds useful for the new anti-thrombotic therapy by detecting selective inhibitory activity of PI 3-kinase ? of the compound. The invention also relates to novel compounds that are inhibitors of PI 3-kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Shaun P. Jackson, Alan D. Robertson, Vijaya Kenche, Philip Thompson, Hishani Prabaharan, Karen Anderson, Belinda Abbott, Isaac Goncalves, Warwick Nesbitt, Simone Shoenwaelder, Dilek Saylik
  • Patent number: 7871998
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): (wherein variable groups are as defined within) pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, solvates of such salts and prodrugs thereof and their use as cholesterol absorption inhibitors for the treatment of hyperlipidaemia are described. Processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Susanne Alenfalk, Mikael Dahlström, Fana Hunegnaw, Staffan Karlsson, Malin Lemurell, Ann-Margret Lindqvist, Tore Skjäret, Ingemar Starke
  • Publication number: 20110009373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of treating endometriosis using a combination of an aromatase inhibitor, a progestin and an oestrogen. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical formulations comprising said combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventor: Stephen Rubin
  • Publication number: 20110009647
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the preparation of a diastereomerically pure dibenzoyl-L-tartrate salt of a compound of formula (III) and to products of said process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Rhony Aufdenblatten, Martin Hans Bohlin, Laurent Ducry, Ulrika Lindblad, Mattias Magnusson
  • Patent number: 7868188
    Abstract: The invention provides thiazole derivatives of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in which Ring A, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the specification; a processes for their preparation; pharmaceutical compositions containing them; and their use in therapy, for example in the treatment of disease mediated by a PI3K enzyme and/or a mTOR kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Malena Bengtsson, Joakim Larsson, Grigorios Nikitidis, Peter Storm, John Peter Bailey, Edward Jolyon Griffen, Jean-Claude Arnould, Thomas Geoffrey Colerick Bird
  • Patent number: 7868008
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and n are as defined for formula I in the description. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of the compounds and to new intermediates employed in the preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and to the use of the compounds in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Bradford Van Wagenen, Radhakrishnan Ukkiramapandian, Joshua Clayton, Ian Egle, James Empfield, Methvin Isaac, Fupeng Ma, Abdelmalik Slassi, Gary Steelman, Rebecca Urbanek, Sally Walsh
  • Patent number: 7868181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds of formula I, where R1 and R2 are independently halo or C1-3haloalkyl, X is ethenyl or ethynyl, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Carmen Leung, Miroslaw Tomaszewski, Simon Woo