Patents Assigned to Cytokinetics
  • Patent number: 7939548
    Abstract: Chemical entities that modulate smooth muscle myosin and/or non-muscle myosin, and chemical entities, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of diseases and conditions associated with smooth muscle myosin and/or non-muscle myosin are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu-Ping Lu, Xiangping Qian, Chihyuan (Grace) Chuang, Bradley P. Morgan, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7932270
    Abstract: Chemical entities that modulate smooth muscle myosin and/or non-muscle myosin, and chemical entities, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of diseases and conditions associated with smooth muscle myosin and/or non-muscle myosin are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu-Ping Lu, Xiangping Qian, Jeffrey T. Finer, Chihyuan (Grace) Chuang, Bradley P. Morgan, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7919524
    Abstract: Compounds useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases and disorders by modulating the activity of KSP are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew McDonald, Gustave Bergnes, Bainian Feng, David J. Morgans, Jr., Steven David Knight, Kenneth A. Newlander, Dashyant Dhanak, Christopher A. Brook
  • Patent number: 7919511
    Abstract: Chemical entities that modulate smooth muscle myosin and/or non-muscle myosin, and chemical entities, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of diseases and conditions associated with smooth muscle myosin and/or non-muscle myosin are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu-Ping Lu, Xiangping Qian, Jeffrey T. Finer, Chihyuan (Grace) Chuang, Bradley P. Morgan, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7910743
    Abstract: Certain substituted urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley P. Morgan, Alex Muci, Erica Kraynack, Pu-Ping Lu, Todd Tochimoto, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7888373
    Abstract: Certain substituted sulfonamide derivatives of Formula (I) selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Paul Morgan, Fady Malik, Erica Anne Kraynack, Alexander Ramon Muci, Xiangping Qian, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7851484
    Abstract: Provided are certain chemical entities, and methods of use to modulate skeletal myosin, skeletal actin, skeletal tropomyosin, skeletal troponin C, skeletal troponin I, skeletal troponin T, and skeletal muscle, including fragments and isoforms thereof, as well as the skeletal sarcomere, and methods of use in the treatment of muscle weakness and/or cachexia, as part of a rehabilitation or conditioning exercise regimen, or in the treatment of fraility, post-polio syndrome, obesity, sarcopenia, wasting syndrome, muscle spasm, and other indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley P. Morgan, David J. Morgans, Jr., Gustave Bergnes, Alex Muci, Scott Collibee, Pu-Ping Lu, Luke W. Ashcraft, William F. Browne, IV, Marc Andrew Garard
  • Patent number: 7824880
    Abstract: The present invention provides assays for detecting ADP, GDP and inorganic phosphate. These assays can be used directly to detect the presence of ADP, GDP and inorganic phosphate or can be used as part of a number of methods for identifying candidate agents that bind to a target protein or serve as modulators of the biological activity of a target protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics
    Inventors: Ramesh Baliga, Donglin Guo, Daniel W. Pierce, Jeffrey T. Finer
  • Patent number: 7825120
    Abstract: Certain substituted ((piperazin-1-ylmethyl)benzyl)urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and may be useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley P. Morgan, Alex Muci, Erica A. Kraynack, Todd Tochimoto, Pu-Ping Lu, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7817840
    Abstract: Cell based assays are used to assess the hepatotoxicity of a stimulus. Imaging technologies are used to analyze the effects of a stimulus on hepatocytes. Image analysis may characterize the stimulus on the basis of whether it is hepatotoxic, and if so what type of pathology is exhibited; e.g., apoptosis, necrosis, cholestasis, and/or steatosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry C. Mattheakis, Jay Kenneth Trautman, Gregg Peter Solar, Jinhong Fan, Eugeni Vaisberg, Cynthia Lynn Adams, Aibing Rao
  • Publication number: 20100261160
    Abstract: Described herein are methods that can be used for diagnosis and prognosis of cellular proliferation. Also described herein are methods that can be used to screen candidate bioactive agents for the ability to modulate cellular proliferation. Additionally, methods and molecular targets (genes and their products) for therapeutic intervention in cancers are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Wood, Jeffrey T. Finer, Christophe Beraud, John Mak, Roman Sakowicz
  • Patent number: 7795448
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula V and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which may be useful for the treatment of cancer or other proliferative disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiangping Qian, Andrew I. McDonald, Han-Jie Zhou, Luke W. Ashcraft, Bing Yao, Hong Jiang, Jennifer Kuo Chen Huang, Jianchao Wang, David J. Morgans, Jr., Bradley P. Morgan, Gustave Bergnes, Dashyant Dhanak, Steven D. Knight, Nicholas D. Adams, Cynthia A. Parrish, Kevin Duffy, Duke Fitch, Rosanna Tedesco
  • Patent number: 7763628
    Abstract: Quinazolinones of formulae 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d are disclosed. They are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases and disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Finer, Gustav E Bergnes, Whitney W. Smith, John C. Chabala, Bainian Feng
  • Patent number: 7718657
    Abstract: Certain substituted urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley P. Morgan, Erica A. Kraynack, Pu-Ping Lu, Alex Muci, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7671200
    Abstract: Quinazolinones of formulae (a, b, c and d) are disclosed. They are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases and disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Finer, Gustave Bergnes, Bainian Feng, Whitney Smith, John Chabala
  • Patent number: 7657076
    Abstract: A method for generating stimulus response curves (e.g., dose response curves) shows how the phenotype of one or more cells change in response to varying levels of the stimulus. Each “point” on the curve represents quantitative phenotype for cell(s) at a particular level of stimulus (e.g., dose of a therapeutic). The quantitative phenotypes are multivariate phenotypic representations of the cell(s). They include various features of the cell(s) obtained by image analysis. Such features often include basic parameters obtained from images (e.g., cell shape, nucleus area, Golgi texture) and/or biological characterizations derived from the basic parameters (e.g., cell cycle state, mitotic index, etc.). The stimulus response curves may be compared to allow classification of stimuli and identify subtle differences in related stimuli. To facilitate the comparison, it may be desirable to present the response curves in a principal component space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugeni A. Vaisberg, Donald R. Oestreicher, Cynthia L. Adams
  • Patent number: 7629477
    Abstract: Compounds useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases and disorders by modulating the activity of KSP are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignees: Cytokinetics, Inc., SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew McDonald, Gustave Bergnes, Bainian Feng, David J. Morgans, Jr., Steven David Knight, Kenneth A. Newlander, Dashyant Dhanak, Christopher A. Brook
  • Patent number: 7618981
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula V and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which may be useful for the treatment of cancer or other proliferative disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignees: Cytokinetics, Inc., SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Xiangping Qian, Andrew I. McDonald, Han-Jie Zhou, Luke W. Ashcraft, Bing Yao, Hong Jiang, Jennifer Kuo Chen Huang, Jianchao Wang, David J. Morgans, Jr., Bradley P. Morgan, Gustave Bergnes, Dashyant Dhanak, Steven D. Knight, Nicholas D. Adams, Cynthia A. Parrish, Kevin Duffy, Duke Fitch, Rosanna Tedesco
  • Patent number: 7605164
    Abstract: Certain substituted benzamide derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Fady Malik, Adam Lewis Tomasi, Bainian Feng, Erica Anne Kraynack, Kathleen A. Elias, Pu-Ping Lu, Whitney Walter Smith, Xiangping Qian, David J. Morgans, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7598248
    Abstract: Provided is at least one chemical entity chosen from compounds of Formula I and compounds of Formula II: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions thereof, and methods for their use in modulating of one or more of skeletal myosin, skeletal actin, skeletal tropomyosin, skeletal troponin C, skeletal troponin I, skeletal troponin T, skeletal muscle, and skeletal sarcomere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Muci, Jeffrey T. Finer, Pu-Ping Lu, Alan James Russell, Bradley P. Morgan, David J. Morgans, Jr.