Patents Assigned to Kansas State University Reasearch Foundation
  • Patent number: 9309284
    Abstract: Antiviral protease inhibitors, including macrocylic transition state inhibitors and peptidomimetics are disclosed, along with related antiviral compounds, and methods of using the same to treat or prevent viral infection and disease. The compounds possess broad-spectrum activity against viruses that belong to the picornavirus-like supercluster, which include important human and animal pathogens including noroviruses, sapoviruses, enteroviruses, poliovirus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, hepatitis A virus, human rhinovirus (cause of common cold), human coronavirus (another cause of common cold), transmissible gastroenteritis virus, murine hepatitis virus, feline infectious peritonitis virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignees: Kansas State University Reasearch Foundation, Wichita State University
    Inventors: Kyeong-Ok Chang, Yunjeong Kim, William C. Groutas