Patents Assigned to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Publication number: 20220175722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bispecific compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions characterized or mediated by aberrant fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Guangyan Du, Nathaniel Henning, Jie Jiang
  • Publication number: 20220177443
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and stereoisomers thereof that may cause degradation of various proteins e.g., IKZF2 (Helios). Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and methods of making and using the compounds to treat diseases and disorders characterized or mediated by aberrant protein activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Alyssa Verano, Eric Wang, Radoslaw Nowak, Jing Ting Christine Yuan, Nathanael Gray, Eric Fischer, Tinghu Zhang, Hu Liu
  • Publication number: 20220177466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (KEAP1). In some aspects, the present invention is directed to methods of treating diseases or disorders involving dysfunctional (e.g., dysregulated) KEAP1 activity, that entails administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a bifunctional compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or stereoisomer thereof, to a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Guangyan Du, Nathaniel Henning, Jie Jiang, Eric Fischer, Katherine Donovan
  • Publication number: 20220169631
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I?) or (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., carcinoma); lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer)), metabolic disorders (e.g., diabetes), autoimmune diseases, and neurological diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, gliosis, spinal cord injury)) in a subject, as well as for male contraception (e.g., reducing or inhibiting spermatogenesis, or reducing the rate of male fertility in a healthy fertile male subject). Provided are methods of inhibiting a CDK (e.g., CDK14, CDK15, CDK16, CDK17, CDK18) in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Fleur M. Ferguson, Zainab M. Doctor
  • Publication number: 20220163510
    Abstract: Aspects of the application provide methods and compositions for identifying and evaluating putative therapeutic agents for cancer by live cell imaging. Cell samples comprising cancerous cells that have been pre-treated with a test agent are contacted with a BH3 peptide, and samples are imaged by live cell imaging over a time interval. Methods of the application can be used to determine whether a patient is likely to benefit from treatment with a particular test agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Letai, Patrick Bhola, Rebecca German
  • Publication number: 20220160702
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula I, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Compounds of the present invention are useful for inhibiting kinase (e.g., GSK3 (e.g., GSK3? or GSK3?) or CK1) activity. The present invention further provides methods of using the compounds described herein for treating kinase-mediated disorders, such as neurological diseases, psychiatric disorders, metabolic disorders, and cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital
    Inventors: Florence Fevrier Wagner, Jennifer Q. Pan, Sivaraman Dandapani, Andrew Germain, Edward Holson, Benito Munoz, Partha P. Nag, Michael C. Lewis, Stephen J. Haggarty, Joshua A. Bishop, Kimberly Stegmaier, Michel Weiwer, Versha Banerji
  • Publication number: 20220160885
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, nucleic acid nanostructures covalently linked to oligolysine-PEG copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicants: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Shih, Zhao Zhao, Frances M. Anastassacos
  • Patent number: 11339157
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) processes for their production and their use as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Broad Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Siegel, Franziska Siegel, Volker Schulze, Markus Berger, Keith Graham, Ulrich Klar, Knut Eis, Detlev Sülzle, Ulf Bömer, Daniel Korr, Kirstin Petersen, Ursula Mönning, Uwe Eberspächer, Dieter Moosmayer, Matthew Meyerson, Heidi Greulich, Bethany Kaplan, Hassan Youssef Harb, Phi Manh Dinh
  • Patent number: 11340216
    Abstract: The present application relates, in some aspects, to the development of an assay that uses cell survival and/or cell viability as a phenotypic identifier to positively select for agents that destabilize a protein of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Kaelin, Vidyasagar Koduri
  • Publication number: 20220153722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by dysfunctional cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) and CDK5 activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael Gray, Nicholas Kwiatkowski, Eric Fischer, Katherine Donovan, Tinghu Zhang, Mingxing Teng, Jie Jiang
  • Publication number: 20220153730
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds according to Formula (I): where Ring A, Ring B, X, L1, L2, RA, RC, RD, RE, m, n, and p are as defined herein. Compounds of the present invention are contemplated useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of human diseases associated with kinase activity, for example, proliferative diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic disorders, inflammatory diseases, and cardiovascular diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11331379
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating pancreatic beta cell function through modulation of adipsin activity and/or expression. Also provided are methods for preventing, treating, diagnosing, and prognosing metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, in a subject through modulation or detection of adipsin activity and/or expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce M. Spiegelman, James Lo
  • Patent number: 11325955
    Abstract: Methods of generating and optimizing stabilized (e.g., stapled and/or stitched) anti-microbial peptides (StAMPs) for the prophylaxis and treatment of antibiotic-resistant (e.g., colistin-resistant, methicillin resistant, meropenem-resistant) bacterial infections (e.g., Gram-negative, Gram-positive), and methods for using such peptides for experimental investigation, livestock management, management of crops/trees/plants, and/or therapeutic benefit. Also featured are methods for reducing renal toxicity of a StAMP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren D. Walensky, Rida Mourtada
  • Patent number: 11325910
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), (II), or (III), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, osteosarcoma, brain cancer, ovarian cancer, neuroblastoma, lung cancer, colorectal cancer), benign neoplasms, diseases associated with angiogenesis, inflammatory diseases, autoinflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases) in a subject. Treatment of a subject with a proliferative disease using a compound or composition of the invention may inhibit the aberrant activity of a kinase, such as a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Nicholas Paul Kwiatkowski
  • Publication number: 20220135967
    Abstract: The present invention provides a means to modulate gene expression in vivo in a manner that avoids problems associated with CRISPR endogenous protein knock-out or knock-in strategies and strategies that provide for correction, or alteration, of single nucleotides. The invention includes inserting into the genome a nucleotide encoding a heterobifunctional compound targeting protein (dTAG) in-frame with the nucleotide sequence of a gene encoding an endogenously expressed protein of interest which, upon expression, produces an endogenous protein-dTAG hybrid protein. This allows for targeted protein degradation of the dTAG and the fused endogenous protein using a heterobifunctional compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Dennis Buckley, Georg Winter, Andrew J. Phillips, Timothy Heffernan, James Bradner, Justin Roberts, Behnam Nabet
  • Publication number: 20220133693
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment or prevention of microsatellite unstable cancers. In particular, the instant disclosure provides for identification of a cancer as exhibiting microsatellite instability (MSI) and/or impaired mismatch repair (MMR), and selection and/or administration of an inhibitor of the WRN helicase as a therapeutic agent for such a cancer and/or subject having or at risk of developing such a cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., INSTITUTO CARLOS SLIM DE LA SALUD, A.C.
    Inventors: Francisca Vazquez, Adam Bass, Tsukasa Shibue, Edmond Chan, James McFarland, Mahmoud Ghandi, Aviad Tsherniak
  • Publication number: 20220135573
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel heteroaryl compounds of formula (VII). Such compounds are useful for the treatment of cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Nathanael S. GRAY, Jianming ZHANG, Barun OKRAM, Xianming DENG, Jae Won CHANG, Amy WOJCIECHOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20220133736
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of increasing skin pigmentation in a subject in need thereof using salt-inducible kinase (SIK) inhibitors, such as macrocyclic compounds of Formula (I), bicyclic urea compounds of Formula (II), (III), and (IV), and compounds of Formula (V), (VI), (VI-A), or (VII). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: The General Hospital Corporation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Fisher, Nisma Mujahid, Ryo Murakami, Nathanael S. Gray, Yanke Liang, Hwan Geun Choi
  • Publication number: 20220136057
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and devices for determining molecular signatures in a cancer that predict response to a MARPK pathway inhibitor and methods of use of such signatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory M. Johannessen, David J. Konieczkowski, Levi A. Garraway
  • Patent number: 11318139
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating brain metastases using synergistic combinations of anti-PI3K and anti-mTOR therapies. It has also been determined that blocking PI3K and mTOR provides therapeutic benefit for treating brain metastases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Zhao, Jing Ni, Shaozhen Xie