Patents Assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140305195
    Abstract: A chromatography system comprising a mixing circuit or a mixing chamber, a bubble trap, a concentration detector and one or more pumps, characterized in that the bubble trap has a permanent opening at its highest point is described herein. Furthermore, a chromatography system is described, characterized in that it contains two concentration detectors the first of which is located in the mixing circuit or the mixing chamber and the second is located downstream of the main pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Blaschyk, Darko Dvekar, Christian Schmalz
  • Publication number: 20140303141
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with triazolopyridine compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds inhibit PDE10A and can be used as medicaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Flohr, Katrin Groebke Zbinden, Matthias Koerner
  • Publication number: 20140302559
    Abstract: In the method as reported herein the isolation of nucleic acid segments encoding antibody variable domains and the insertion of the isolated nucleic acid segments in eukaryotic expression plasmids is performed without the intermediate isolation and analysis of clonal intermediate plasmids. Thus, in the method as reported herein the intermediate cloning, isolation and analysis of intermediate plasmids is not required, e.g. by analysis of isolated transformed E. coli cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Simone Hoege, Erhard Kopetzki, Dominique Ostler, Stefan Seeber, Georg Tiefenthaler
  • Publication number: 20140302015
    Abstract: An antibody binding to IL33R characterized in that the heavy chain variable domain comprises a CDR3 region of SEQ ID NO:1, a CDR2 region of SEQ ID NO:2 and a CDR1 region of SEQ ID NO:3 and in that the light chain variable domain comprises a CDR3 region of SEQ ID NO:4, a CDR2 region of SEQ ID NO:5 and a CDR1 region of SEQ ID NO:6 or a a chimeric, humanized or T cell epitope depleted antibody variant thereof has advantageous properties for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Georg Fertig, Jens Fischer, Guy Georges, Klaus Kaluza, Valeria Lifke, Joerg Moelleken, Sonja Offner, Achal Pashine, Stefan Seeber
  • Publication number: 20140303149
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I or II: wherein X, m, Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The subject compounds are useful for treatment of IRAK-mediated conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Nidhi Arora, Shaoqing Chen, Johannes Cornelius Hermann, Andreas Kuglstatter, Sharada Shenvi Labadie, Clara Jeou Jen Lin, Matthew C. Lucas, Amy Geraldine Moore, Eva Papp, Francisco Xavier Talamas, Jutta Wanner, Yansheng Zhai
  • Publication number: 20140302019
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for improving the treatment effect of a chemotherapy regimen of a patient suffering from pancreatic cancer, in particular metastatic pancreatic cancer by adding bevacizumab (Avastin®) to a chemotherapy regimen by determining the expression level, in particular the blood plasma expression level, of one or more of VEGFA, VEGFR2 and PLGF relative to control levels of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, in particular metastatic pancreatic cancer. In particular, the present invention provides methods of improving the treatment effect, wherein the treatment effect is the overall survival and/or progression-free survival of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Paul DELMAR, Dorothee FOERNZLER, Friedemann KRAUSE, Stefan SCHERER
  • Patent number: 8852634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a pharmaceutical tablet composition which comprises an active pharmaceutical ingredient of formula I wherein the definitions are described in claim 1, or pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof and a water soluble poloxamer in which the compound of formula I and the water soluble poloxamer are processed by hot melt extrusion, and then the hot melt extrudate is mixed with other ingredients to form a tablet, that is optionally coated with a composition comprising an immediate release film coating system and purified water. The invention also relates to such pharmaceutical compositions and hot melt extrudates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Hashim A. Ahmed, Susanne Page, Navnit Hargovindas Shah
  • Patent number: 8852887
    Abstract: An antibody binding to TWEAK comprising as heavy chain variable domain a CDR3H selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 8, 16 or 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Monika Baehner, Hendrik Knoetgen, Jens Niewoehner
  • Publication number: 20140294811
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with a method of predicting a patient's susceptibility to developing hypertension associated with an anti-angiogenesis treatment, such as bevacizumab, by determining the genotype of KDR gene and/or EGF gene. The invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an angiogenesis inhibitor, such as bevacizumab, for the treatment of a patient suffering from cancer based on the genotype of KDR gene and/or EGF. The invention further relates to a method for reducing the risk of hypertension associated with an anti-angiogenesis therapy, such as bevacizumab, in a patient suffering from cancer by determining the genotype of KDR gene and/or EGF gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., VIB vzw, Life Sciences Research Partners vzw
    Inventors: Sanne Lysbet de Haas, Paul Delmar, Diether Lambrechts, Stefan Scherer
  • Publication number: 20140288046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula (I) wherein A, R1 and R2 are defined as in the description and in the claims. The compound of formula (I) can be used as a medicament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Adam, Caterina Bissantz, Uwe Grether, Atsushi Kimbara, Matthias Nettekoven, Stephan Roever, Mark Rogers-Evans
  • Patent number: 8841430
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of regulatory sequences for mediating specific, early transient expression in proliverative neuronal determined cells. Furthermore, the uses of recombinant nucleic acid molecules comprising said defined regulatory sequences for mediating specific, early transient expression in proliverative neuronal determined cells as well as for the generation of non-human transgenic organisms and/or host cells are disclosed. In addition, the invention provides for transgenic non-human animals and/or host cells comprising said regulatory sequences and/or recombinant nucleic acid molecules. The invention also describes methods for the preparation of such vectors, host cells and transgenic non-human animals as well as methods for the detection and/or isolation of neuronal determined cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: F. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Sébastien Couillard-Despres, Claudia Karl, Hans-Georg Kuhn, Ludwig Aigner
  • Publication number: 20140273279
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the binding constant of a compound of interest to proteins comprising the following steps: a) adding the high affinity compound to a two-chamber system, wherein the two chambers are separated by a semipermeable membrane, which is permeable for the compound of interest, and determining the amount of the high affinity compound of interest in one of the chambers after the distribution equilibrium has been reached, b) adding a sink compound to one of the chambers whereby the sink compound can not permeate the membrane, and determining the distribution coefficient of the compound of interest to the sink compound after the distribution equilibrium has been reached, c) adding an unspecific protein to the other chamber, whereby the unspecific protein can not permeate the membrane, and determining the distribution coefficient of the compound of interest to the unspecific protein in presence of a sink compound after the distribution equilibrium has been reached, and d)
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
    Inventors: FRAUKE ASSMUS, Holger Fischer
  • Patent number: 8835425
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the pharmaceutical use of selective GABA A ?5 negative allosteric modulators for the treatment, prevention and/or delay of progression of central nervous system (CNS) conditions related to excessive GABAergic inhibition in the brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Rodolfo Gasser, Maria-Clemencia Hernandez, Andrew Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140256915
    Abstract: The current invention is directed to the velocity factor. Based on the velocity factor antibodies can be classified, i.e. antibodies can be characterized on their binding properties as e.g. entropic or enthalpic antigen binder. A velocity factor based classification does not require detailed thermodynamic determinations and/or calculations. The velocity factor is the ratio of the antigen-antibody complex association rate constants ka determined at 37° C. and 13° C. As only two experimental determinations are required to calculate the velocity factor this is a fast and high-throughput suited method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Schraeml, Leopold Von Proff
  • Patent number: 8828989
    Abstract: The present invention provides 4H,6H-5-oxa-2,3,10b-triaza-benzo[e]azulenes of the formula wherein R1 and R2 are as defined herein and which act as V1a receptor modulators, and in particular as V1a receptor antagonists, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Cosimo Dolente, Patrick Schnider
  • Patent number: 8829029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) wherein R1, R2, X and n are as defined in the specification as dual modulators of the serotonin 5-HT2a and dopamine D3 receptors, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use for the treatment of psychotic disorders, as well as other diseases such as depression and anxiety, drug dependence, dementias and memory impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Luca Gobbi, Georg Jaeschke, Olivier Roche, Rosa Maria Rodriguez Sarmiento, Lucinda Steward
  • Patent number: 8822655
    Abstract: Herein is reported a tangential flow filtration method with a pre-filtration solute concentration adjustment in order to ensure a defined concentration of the components of the solution after tangential flow filtration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Hepbildikler, Wolfgang Kuhne, Eva Rosenberg, Gerhard Winter
  • Publication number: 20140243508
    Abstract: A method for the purification of immunoglobulins by ion exchange chromatography is described. The chromatographic method uses a weak ion exchange resin and a single step elution process for the purification of an immunoglobulin. Additionally a method for the determination of the salt concentration for the single step elution of an immunoglobulin from an ion exchange resin is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Roberto Falkenstein, Burkard Kolb, Maria Sebald
  • Publication number: 20140242028
    Abstract: The present invention discloses compounds of Formula I: wherein the variables in Formula I are defined as described herein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for using the compounds of Formula I in the prevention or treatment of HCV infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Bilotta, Zhi Chen, Qingjie Ding, Shawn David Erickson, Eric Mertz, Robert James Weikert
  • Publication number: 20140243325
    Abstract: The present invention provides 4-(3-Amino-phenyl)-5,6-dihydro-4H-[1,3]oxazin-2-ylamines of formula I having BACE1 and/or BACE2 inhibitory activity, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as therapeutically active substances. The active compounds of the present invention are useful in the therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment of e.g. Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Hans Hilpert, Wolfgang Wostl