Patents Assigned to Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
  • Patent number: 10793573
    Abstract: A compound of the Formula I and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is provided: Formula I, wherein, R is one selected from the group consisting of H and CH3; n is an integer ranging from 1 to 4; X is one selected from the group consisting of —CH2—, O, S, —NH—, —NHCHO—, —NHCOCH3—, and —NHCOCF3—; and Ar is one selected from the group consisting of (a) 1,4-phenyl, (b) 2?-fluoro-1,4-phenyl, and (c) 2,5-thienyl. Methods of treating a patient having cancer, targeting mitochondrial metabolism, and targeting SHMT2 and MTHFD2 using the compounds of this invention are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: Duquesne University of The Holy Spirit, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, Larry H. Matherly
  • Patent number: 10774090
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a compound comprising the formula: wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, or a compound of the formula wherein the S is replaced by CH2 or O, and optionally comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof. A method of treating a patient having cancer or a disease comprising administering to a patient an effective amount of the compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10689386
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I, or optionally a salt or a hydrate of the compound of Formula I is provided: wherein X is one selected from the group consisting of wherein R is an alkyl group having from one to six carbon atoms, and wherein R2 is a halogen atom. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula I, or optionally a salt or a hydrate of the compound of Formula I, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, is provided. A method of treating a patient with cancer is set forth including administering a therapeutically acceptable amount of the compound of Formula I, or a salt or a hydrate of the compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10676483
    Abstract: A method of treating a patient having cancer is provided comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a tricyclic compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the tricyclic compound to a patient. A method of inhibiting the mitosis of a cancerous cell is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10657494
    Abstract: Novel distractorless authorship verification technology optionally combines with novel algorithms to solve authorship attribution as to an open set of candidates—such as without limitation by analyzing the voting of “mixture of experts” and outputting the result to a user using the following: if z (z=pi?pj?pi+pj?(pi?pj)2/n) is larger than a first predetermined threshold then author j cannot be the correct author; or if z (z=pi?pj?pi+pj?(pi?pj)2/n) is smaller than a second predetermined threshold then author i cannot be the correct author; or if no author garners significantly more votes than all other contenders then none of the named authors is the author of a document in question—in a number of novel applications. Personality profiling and authorship attribution may also be used to verify user identity to a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Patrick Juola, James Orlo Overly, John Isaac Noecker, Jr., Michael Ryan, Christine Gray
  • Patent number: 10654792
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to compounds having structure I: wherein x represents alkyl, aryl or het-aryl, each of y independently represents hydrogen or halogen and z represents hydrogen or alkyl. Further, said compounds are inhibitors of MEK 1, 2 and 5. Furthermore, the invention includes methods of making said compounds, compositions including said compounds and uses for inhibiting MEK 1, 2 and 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    Inventors: Suravi Chakrabarty, Darlene Monlish, Patrick Flaherty, Jane E. Cavanaugh, Sneha Potdar
  • Patent number: 10611767
    Abstract: Fused cyclic pyrimidine compounds, including tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates and hydrates thereof, are disclosed having the general Formula I: These compounds are useful in methods for treating cancer, selectively targeting cancerous cells via the proton coupled folate transporter, folate receptor alpha, and/or folate receptor beta pathways, inhibiting GARFTase in cancerous cells, and selectively targeting activated macrophages in a patient having an autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, Larry H. Matherly
  • Patent number: 10577377
    Abstract: The present invention provides substituted cyclopenta and cyclopentyl pyrimidine bicyclic compounds of Formula III, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, and hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, such as for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Duquesne University of The Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10544443
    Abstract: A method of detecting a species, strain or type of bacteria includes mixing a labeled bacteriophage including a label that is detectible via a detection system with a bacterial culture including the species, strain or type of bacteria to which the labeled bacteriophage selectively binds and using the detection system to detect the labeled bacteriophage bound to the species, strain or type of bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: John Alston Kellum, John D. Hempel, Robert Hugh Edgar, John Andrew Viator
  • Patent number: 10538527
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula II, and salts thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula II: wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, and wherein R3 is hydrogen, an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, or a halogen. Preferably the compound of Formula II includes wherein R3 is a halogen, and most preferably wherein the halogen is chlorine. Methods of treating a patient with cancer with these compounds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10464944
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10457688
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula XXXI: or a salt or a hydrate of said compound, and further provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound of Formula XXXI and one or more acceptable pharmaceutical carriers. A method of treating a patient having cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula XXXI, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula XXXI and one or more acceptable pharmaceutical carriers to the patient is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of The Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10414777
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10385064
    Abstract: Bicyclic and tricyclic pyrimidine tyrosine kinase inhibitors with antitubulin activity are provided in the present invention. The compositions of the present invention possess dual activity in a single agent of potent vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitory activity as well as antitubulin activity. Water soluble salts of these compositions are also described. Methods of treating a patient having cancer, macular degeneration, and arthritis with the compositions and salts thereof of the present invention are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10300167
    Abstract: The present invention provides a functionalized composition and resulting functionalized body or prosthesis for in vitro and in vivo use comprising at least one calcium phosphate containing phase that is functionalized with a linker group comprising at least one of an organic acid molecule, a phosphonic acid, an amine, N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, and 3-maleimidopropionic acid N-hydroxysuccinimide ester, and combinations thereof, and one or more of a chemical and/or a biologically active moieties, wherein the linker group provides for a reactive location for the attachment of the chemical or biologically active moiety, or both, to the calcium phosphate containing phase, and optionally including an unmodified and/or modified calcium aluminate containing phase. Methods of manufacturing a functionalized artificial prosthesis and methods of repairing a bone, vertebrae, or tissue structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: CAberTech, Inc., Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Kenneth A. McGowan, Ellen S. Gawalt, Rachelle Palchesko
  • Publication number: 20190135816
    Abstract: This invention provides substituted pyrimidine compounds having the formula: wherein X is absent, CH2, S, or O, and R is an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, and optionally salts, hydrates, or solvates thereof, that are useful in treating a patient having a disease or cancer. The compounds of this invention are useful as multi-enzyme antifolates selectively targeting the folate receptor (FR). Further, a method of making 5- and 6-substituted cyclopenta[d]pyrimidine for nonclassical and classical antifolates as TS and DHFR inhibitors is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: ALEEM GANGJEE, LARRY H. MATHERLY
  • Patent number: 10239880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula I, and salts thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula I: wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of and R2 is an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, or wherein R2 is selected from the group consisting of R1 is an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms; and R is H, or an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, and R3 is H, an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, or a halogen. Preferably the compound of Formula V includes wherein R3 is a halogen, and most preferably wherein the halogen is chlorine. Methods of treating a patient with cancer with these compounds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Publication number: 20190062341
    Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10189853
    Abstract: The present invention provides conformationally restricted 4-substituted 2,6-dimethylfuro[2,3-d]pyrimidine compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. Preferably, the compounds exhibit dual inhibition of microtubule assembly and receptor tyrosine kinases. Methods of treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one conformationally restricted 4-substituted 2,6-dimethylfuro[2,3-d]pyrimidine compound to a patient is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventor: Aleem Gangjee
  • Patent number: 10167287
    Abstract: This invention provides substituted pyrimidine compounds having the formula: wherein X is absent, CH2, S, or O, and R is an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, and optionally salts, hydrates, or solvates thereof, that are useful in treating a patient having a disease or cancer. The compounds of this invention are useful as multi-enzyme antifolates selectively targeting the folate receptor (FR). Further, a method of making 5- and 6-substituted cyclopenta[d]pyrimidine for nonclassical and classical antifolates as TS and DHFR inhibitors is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, Larry H. Matherly