Patents Assigned to Deutshces Wollforschungsinstitut
  • Patent number: 6342225
    Abstract: The invention provides an analogue of a pharmaceutical active whose molecular weight is less than 25,000 Daltons, the analogue comprising a pharmaceutical active whose molecular weight is less than 25,000 Daltons covalently linked to a pendant molecular group wherein as a result of the administration of the composition to the human or animal body an active complex having a molecular weight of 25,000 Daltons or greater is present in the human or animal circulatory system. The analogue is hepatoselective when administered to the circulatory system. Preferably the analogue is an insulin analogue comprising an insulin or functional equivalent thereof covalently linked to the pendant molecular group wherein the active complex is an insulin complex. Such an insulin analogue may be used in a method of insulin replacement therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignees: Deutshces Wollforschungsinstitut, Kings College London
    Inventors: Henry R. Jones, Fariba Shojaee-Moradi, Peter Henri Sonksen, Dietrich Brandenburg, Achim Schuttler, Heike Eckey, Erik Sundermann