Patents Assigned to Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
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Publication number: 20120107311Abstract: This invention relates generally to identifying peptide sequences involved in antibody binding to any protein for synthesis of vaccine treatments. This novel method allows for a more manageable vaccine peptide discovery and specific generation of unique immunogenic peptides from self-tumor associated proteins and/or foreign proteins from infectious organisms for specific and/or enhanced expression only in the presence of the antibody.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Sathibalan Ponniah, George E. Peoples, Catherine E. Storrer, Michael Flora
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Publication number: 20120064000Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Hendra or Nipah virus. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicants: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., The Government of the United Sates of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of HealthInventors: Dimiter S. Dimitrov, Zhongyu Zhu, Christopher C. Broder
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Patent number: 8133691Abstract: The invention relates to a kit comprising MHC Class I and Class II HLA-coated beads containing specific antigenic peptides for binding to antigen-specific T cells and the appropriate negative control peptides. Also provided are methods for making the coated beads and methods for use. The application of these beads go to the stimulation of peripheral blood cell populations and in vitro-stimulated culture for the elicitation of functional activities such as cell activation and signaling, cytokine secretion, proliferation and cytotoxicity activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Sathibalan Ponniah, George E. Peoples, Catherine E. Storrer, Michael Flora
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Patent number: 8114410Abstract: Fusion of the membrane of enveloped viruses with the plasma membrane of a receptive host cell is a prerequisite for viral entry and infection and an essential step in the life cycle of all enveloped viruses, such as paramyxoviruses. The instant invention is directed to providing polypeptides which are a heptad portion of a Henipavirus F protein effective against fusion between a membrane of a paramyxovirus and a plasma membrane of a cell. The instant invention also provides nucleic acids, compositions, and methods effective against paramyxovirus infection. Accordingly, the instant invention provides therapeutic agents and vaccines effective against paramyxoviruses viruses, especially HeV or NiV.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2010Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Christopher C. Broder, Katharine N. Bossart
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Publication number: 20110318357Abstract: The invention is based on the discovery of the epitope in the Stx2 protein for the 11 E1O antibody. The invention features compositions containing non-full length Stx2 polypeptides that include the 11 E1O monoclonal antibody epitope. The invention also features methods of producing anti-Stx2 antibodies specific for the 11 E1O epitope of the Stx2 protein. Additionally, the invention features methods for treating a subject having, or at risk of developing, a Shiga toxin associated disease (e.g., hemolytic uremia syndrome and diseases associated with E. coli and S. dysenteriae infection) with a polypeptide that includes the 11 E1O epitope or with an anti-Stx2 antibody developed using the methods of the invention. Furthermore, the invention features the detection of Stx2 in a sample using the antibodies developed using the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Alison O'Brien, Angela Melton-Celsa, Michael Smith, James Sinclair
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Publication number: 20110244492Abstract: Methods and kits are provided for assessing radiation injury and exposure in a mammal. The methods comprise the steps of: obtaining one or more test samples from the mammal, contacting the test samples with an antibody immunoreactive with a citrullinated protein to form an immunocomplex; and detecting the immunocomplex with an ELISA; wherein a decrease in the quantity of the immunocomplex in the test samples, as compared to the quantity of immunocomplexes formed under identical conditions with the same antibody and a control sample from one or more mammals known to have a lower degree of radiation injury or exposure, indicates a higher degree of radiation injury and exposure to the mammal. The information obtained from such methods can be used by a clinician to accurately assess the extent of radiation injury/exposure in the mammal, and thus will provide a valuable tool for determining treatment protocols on a subject by subject basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventor: Natalia Ossetrova
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Patent number: 7988971Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Hendra or Nipah virus. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Dimiter S. Dimitrov, Zhu Zhongyu, Christopher C. Broder
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Patent number: 7919525Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the prevention and treatment of a mammal from radiation-induced internal injury using ?-tocotrienol, ?-tocopherol succinate or ?-tocotrienol succinate. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for preventing and treating radiation-induced injuries in a mammal by (1) subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal, or intravascular injection of a therapeutically effective amount of ?-tocotrienol; or (2) oral administration of a therapeutically effective amount of ?-tocopherol succinate or ?-tocotrienol succinate or both.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2004Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: K. Sree Kumar, Venkataraman Srinivasan, Thomas M. Seed, Andreas Papas
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Patent number: 7893094Abstract: The present invention is directed to the amphiphilic pyridinium compounds, such as for suppressing IL-8 secretion and production. The present invention further provides methods of making and using such compounds for the treatment of the IL-8 related diseases, such as cystic fibrosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignees: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., National Institutes of Health (NIH)Inventors: Harvey B. Pollard, Kenneth Jacobson
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Patent number: 7880465Abstract: A system and method for MR imaging includes a computer programmed to determine first and second view-ordering sequences. The first and second view-ordering sequences comprise values corresponding to respective views of first and second k-space data sets, respectively, wherein the values corresponding to a central view of each the first and second k-space data sets are positioned such that acquisition of k-space data in each central view is acquired from a first and second anatomical region, respectively, as a contrast agent passes therethrough. The positions of the values corresponding to the central views of the first and second k-space data sets within the respective sequences are different. The computer is further programmed to acquire MR data according to the first and second view-ordering sequences over a series of cardiac cycles to fill data in the first and second k-space data sets, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignees: General Electric Company, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Massachusetts General HospitalInventors: Maggie M. Fung, Ehud J. Schmidt, Godtfred Holmvang, Vincent B. Ho
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Publication number: 20110015139Abstract: The present disclosure relates to amyloid beta (A?) channels and the diseases and disorders caused by abnormal activity in these channels, such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, inclusion body myositis, or cerebral amyloid angiopathy. The disclosure provides compositions and methods that block AO channel activity and/or reduce A?-induced toxicity in a cell. Compositions comprised of compounds having histidine coordinating capacity are used in methods to prevent, reduce, or eliminate damage caused by A? ion channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: he Henry M. JAckson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventor: Nelson Arispe
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Publication number: 20100278870Abstract: The invention provides a method of inducing an immune response against malaria in a mammal. The method comprises intramuscularly administering to a mammal a composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and either or both of (a) a first adenoviral vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein (CSP) operably linked to a human CMV promoter, and/or (b) a second adenoviral vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a P. falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1) antigen operably linked to a human CMV promoter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Joseph T. Bruder, C. Richter King, Thomas Richie, Keith Limbach, Denise Louise Doolan
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Patent number: 7820395Abstract: A scrub typhus diagnostic method and vaccine using a composition comprising truncated r47 protein and truncated r56 protein is disclosed. Vaccines composed of r56 protein variants are also disclosed. Methods of reducing HIV viral loads using r47 and r56 proteins and antibodies raised against r47 and r56 are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Wei Mei Ching, Hong Ge, Chien-Chung Chao
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Patent number: 7778493Abstract: Methods for improving spatial and/or temporal resolution of digital images and for improving image data transmission by a novel technique—back pixelation, which involves data processing and reconstruction of overlaid images from multiple acquisition or multiple sampling. The back pixelation technique may be used for image data acquisition and transmission; it may be applied prospectively or retrospectively. In particular, the methods of this invention may be used in reducing the pixel size of a two-dimensional image or the voxel size of a three dimensional image; producing a two- or three-dimensional image from a multiplicity of images acquired from an object which are capable of overlaying one another by an increment; producing and transmitting a two- or three-dimensional image by multiple acquisitions according to an acquisition matrix; or transmitting a two- or three-dimensional image by reducing or decomposing the image to a plurality of image data packets and transmitting the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc.Inventors: Vincent B. Ho, Micah D. Schmidt
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Patent number: 7767789Abstract: Methods/reagents for detecting and/or treating cancers or potential cancers are disclosed. In one embodiment, methods and reagents for detecting truncated forms of P2X7 protein in cells are described. In one embodiment, methods and reagents for increasing the amount and/or activity of full-length P2X7 in cells are described. In one embodiment, methods and reagents for decreasing the amount and/or activity of truncated P2X7 in cells are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignees: University Hopitals of Cleveland, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: George Gorodeski, Ying-Hong Feng, Xin Li
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Patent number: 7666431Abstract: Fusion of the membrane of enveloped viruses with the plasma membrane of a receptive host cell is a prerequisite for viral entry and infection and an essential step in the life cycle of all enveloped viruses, such as paramyxoviruses. The instant invention is directed to providing polypeptides which are a heptad portion of a Henipavirus F protein effective against fusion between a membrane of a paramyxovirus and a plasma membrane of a cell. The instant invention also provides nucleic acids, compositions, and methods effective against paramyxovirus infection. Accordingly, the instant invention provides therapeutic agents and vaccines effective against paramyxoviruses viruses, especially HeV or NiV.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Christopher C. Broder, Katharine N. Bossart
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Patent number: 7608688Abstract: The present invention relates to HIV-1 envelope proteins from a donor with non-progressive HIV-1 infection whose serum contains broadly cross-reactive, primary virus neutralizing antibody. The invention also relates to isolated or purified proteins and protein fragments that share certain amino acids at particular positions with the foregoing HIV-1 proteins.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Gerald V. Quinnan, Jr., Peng Fei Zhang
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Patent number: 7547759Abstract: The present invention is directed to variants of antigens comprising folate binding protein epitopes as a composition associated with providing immunity against a tumor in an individual. The variant is effective in inducing cytotoxic T-lymphocytes but preferably not to the extent that they become sensitive to silencing by elimination, such as by apoptosis, or by energy, as in unresponsiveness.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Constantin G. Ioannides, George E. Peoples, Jr.
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Patent number: 7504223Abstract: This invention provides methods, including a method of assessing the prognosis of a breast cancer patient, comprising assaying for loss of heterozygosity at the 10q21 region of the genome of the patient, a method of identifying a probability that a patient with breast cancer has metastasized breast cancer, a method of determining a survival probability of a patient with breast cancer, and a method of identifying a probability that a patient with prostate cancer has a severe form of prostate cancer. This invention also provides assay complexes, including assay complexes which comprise at least one prostate tissue sample or tissue sample extract, an antibody that specifically binds ANX7, and a label, or which comprise at least one breast tissue sample or tissue sample extract, an antibody that specifically binds ANX7, and a label.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Meera Srivastava, Harvey B. Pollard
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Patent number: 7432051Abstract: The present invention relates to the elucidation of the role of erythropoietin and the erythropoietin receptor in the development and progression of certain solid tumors, including those found in breast, cervical, uterine, ovarian, prostate and brain cancer.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventor: Ajay Verma