Patents Assigned to Ion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Use of triaryl methane compounds for inhibiting unwanted cellular proliferation associated with inflammatory disease
    Patent number: 6331564
    Abstract: The present invention provides a class of chemical compounds useful as efficacious drugs in the treatment of sickle cell disease and diseases characterized by unwanted or abnormal cell proliferation, and in particular inflammatory diseases associated with unwanted cellular proliferation. The active compounds are substituted triaryl methane compounds or analogues thereof where one or more of the aryl groups is replaced with a heteroaryl, cycloalkyl or heterocycloalkyl group and/or the tertiary carbon atom is replaced with a different atom such as Si, Ge, N or P, the compounds inhibit mammalian cell proliferation, inhibit the Gardos channel of erythrocytes, reduce sickle erythrocyte dehydration and/or delay the occurrence of erythrocyte sickling or deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Ion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Brugnara, Jose Halperin, Emile M. Bellot, Jr., Mark Froimowitz, Richard John Lombardy, John J. Clifford, Ying-Duo Gao, Reem M. Haidar, Eugene W. Kelleher, Falguni M. Kher, Adel M. Moussa, Yesh P. Sachdeva, Minghua Sun, Heather N. Taft
  • Substituted diphenyl indanone, indane and indole compounds and analogues thereof useful for the treatment of prevention of diseases characterized by abnormal cell proliferation
    Patent number: 6127407
    Abstract: The present invention provides substituted 3,3-diphenyl indanone, indane and indole compounds, as well as analogues thereof, which are specific, potent and safe inhibitors of mammalian cell proliferation. The compounds can be used to inhibit mammalian cell proliferation in situ as a therapeutic approach towards the treatment or prevention of diseases characterized by abnormal cell proliferation, such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignees: Ion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard College, Children's Medical Center Corporation
    Inventors: Carlo Brugnara, Jose Halperin, Rudolf Fluckiger, Emile M. Bellott, Jr., Richard John Lombardy, John J. Clifford, Ying-Duo Gao, Reem M. Haidar, Eugene W. Kelleher, Adel M. Moussa, Yesh P. Sachdeva, Minghua Sun, Heather N. Taft
  • Substituted diphenyl indanone, indane and indole compounds and analogues thereof useful for the treatment of prevention of diseases characterized by abnormal cell proliferation
    Patent number: 6043272
    Abstract: The present invention provides substituted 3,3-diphenyl indanone, indane and indole compounds, as well as analogues thereof, which are specific, potent and safe inhibitors of mammalian cell proliferation. The compounds can be used to inhibit mammalian cell proliferation in situ as a therapeutic approach towards the treatment or prevention of diseases characterized by abnormal cell proliferation, such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignees: Ion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard College, Children's Medical Center Corporation
    Inventors: Carlo Brugnara, Jose Halperin, Rudolf Fluckiger, Emile M. Bellott, Jr., Richard John Lombardy, John J. Clifford, Ying-Duo Gao, Reem M. Haidar, Eugene W. Kelleher, Adel M. Moussa, Yesh P. Sachdeva, Minghua Sun, Heather N. Taft
  • Triaryl methane compounds and analogues thereof useful for the treatment or prevention of sickle cell disease or diseases characterized by abnormal cell proliferation
    Patent number: 6028103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a class of chemical compounds useful as efficacious drugs in the treatment of sickle cell disease and diseases characterized by unwanted or abnormal cell proliferation. The active compounds are substituted triaryl methane compounds or analogues thereof where one or more of the aryl groups is replaced with a heteroaryl, cycloalkyl or heterocycloalkyl group and/or the tertiary carbon atom is replaced with a different atom such as Si, Ge, N or P. The compounds inhibit mammalian cell proliferation, inhibit the Gardos channel of erythrocytes, reduce sickle erythrocyte dehydration and/or delay the occurrence of erythrocyte sickling or deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignees: Children's Medical Center Corporation, Ion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Brugnara, Jose Halperin, Emile M. Bellot, Jr., Mark Froimowitz, Richard John Lombardy, John J. Clifford, Ying-Duo Gao, Reem M. Haidar, Eugene W. Kelleher, Falguni M. Kher, Adel M. Moussa, Yesh P. Sachdeva, Minghua Sun, Heather N. Taft