Abstract: The present invention provides a novel class of macrocyclic compounds, which are useful as cysteine protease inhibitors. Also provided are novel intermediates and methods of preparing the compounds. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds and compositions are useful in methods of treating or preventing one or more diseases associated with cysteine protease activity, particularly those associated with calpain activity.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 12, 2014
Publication date:
July 10, 2014
Applicants:
Lincoln University, Douglas Pharmaceuticals Limited, Canterprise Limited
Inventors:
Andrew David Abell, James Morriss Coxon, Matthew Alan Jones, Stephen Brian McNabb, Axel Thomas Neffe, Steven Geoffrey Aitken, Blair Gibb Stuart, Janna Marie Nikkel, Joanna Kimberley Duncan, Mutita Klanchantra, James David Morton, Roy Bickerstaffe, Lucinda Jane Goodricke Robertson, Hannah Yun Young Lee, Matthew Stewart Muir
Abstract: The present invention provides a novel class of macrocyclic compounds, which are useful as cysteine protease inhibitors. Also provided are novel intermediates and methods of preparing the compounds. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds and compositions are useful in methods of treating or preventing one or more diseases associated with cysteine protease activity, particularly those associated with calpain activity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 18, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2014
Assignees:
Lincoln University, Canterprise Limited, Douglas Pharmaceuticals Limited
Inventors:
Andrew David Abell, James Morriss Coxon, Matthew Alan Jones, Stephen Brian McNabb, Axel Thomas Neffe, Steven Geoffrey Aitken, Blair Gibb Stuart, Janna Marie Nikkel, Joanna Kimberley Duncan, Mutita Klanchantra, James David Morton, Roy Bickerstaffe, Lucinda Jane Goodricke Robertson, Hannah Yun Young Lee, Matthew Stewart Muir
Abstract: The present invention provides Schottky-like and ohmic contacts comprising metal oxides on zinc oxide substrates and a method of forming such contacts. The metal oxide Schottky-like and ohmic contacts may be formed on zinc oxide substrates using various deposition and lift-off photolithographic techniques. The barrier heights of the metal oxide Schottky-like contacts are significantly higher than those for plain metals and their ideality factors are very close to the image force controlled limit. The contacts may have application in diodes, power electronics, FET transistors and related structures, and in various optoelectronic devices, such as UV photodetectors.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 19, 2008
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2013
Assignee:
Canterprise Limited
Inventors:
Martin Ward Allen, Steven Michael Durbin
Abstract: A method of selecting bulk wood units for chemical pulping in alkaline conditions which consists of establishing a reference scale by selecting a test sample, measuring the acoustic velocity through each sample units, selecting acoustic velocity bands from the sample results, processing the sample units using known chemical pulping processes, measuring the percentage pulp yield, and then using the measured pulp yields and acoustic velocities to produce a reference scale; measuring the acoustic velocity through each of the units, comparing the velocity measurement for each unit against the reference scale, and then dividing the tested units into subgroups according to the predicted yield in chemical pulping.