Abstract: Provided herein are IL-2 muteins that bind to the IL-2 receptor ? subunit but do not have measurable binding to the IL-2 receptor a subunit. Also provided are compositions, kits, methods, and uses involving such IL-2 muteins.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 21, 2022
Publication date:
September 19, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Juan C. Alvarez, Alan C. Cheng, Ghassan N. Fayad, Brian E. Hall, Veronica M. Juan, Peter S. Kim, Sheila H. Ranganath, Venkataraman Sriraman, Gary C. Starling, Nicole C. Walsh
Abstract: The present invention is directed to certain 2-aminoquinzaoline derivatives of Formula (I): (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A, R1, R2, and R3 are as defined herein, which are potent inhibitors of LRRK2 kinase and may be useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the LRRK2 kinase is involved, such as Parkinson's Disease and other diseases and disorders described herein. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which LRRK-2 kinase is involved.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 14, 2022
Publication date:
September 19, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Kaleen Konrad Childers, J. Michael Ellis, Peter H. Fuller, Anmol Gulati, Hakan Gunaydin, Solomon D. Kattar, Ravi Kurukulasuriya, Joey L. Methot, Gregori J. Morriello, Santhosh Neelamkavil, Blair T. Lapointe, Vladimir Simov, Charles S. Yeung
Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) which are inhibitors of an IDO enzyme: (I). Also disclosed herein are uses of the compounds in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising these compounds. Further disclosed herein are uses of the compositions in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 28, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 17, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Dane Clausen, Xavier Fradera, Liangqin Guo, Yongxin Han, Shuwen He, Joseph Kozlowski, Guoqing Li, Theodore A. Martinot, Alexander Pasternak, David Sloman, Li Xiao, Wensheng Yu, Rui Zhang
Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzymatic synthesis of 4?-ethynyl-2?-deoxy nucleosides and analogs thereof, for example EFdA, that eliminates the use of protecting groups on the intermediates, improves the stereoselectivity of glycosylation and reduces the number of process steps needed to make said compounds. It also relates to the novel intermediates employed in the process.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 28, 2024
Publication date:
September 12, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Mark A. Huffman, Anna Fryszkowska, Joshua N. Kolev, Paul N. Devine, Kevin R. Campos, Matthew Truppo, Christopher C. Nawrat
Abstract: Therapeutic combinations of immunoconjugates that bind to FOLR1 (e.g., IMGN853) with anti-PD-1 antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof (e.g., pembrolizumab) are provided. Methods of administering the combinations to treat cancers, e.g., ovarian, peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancers, with greater clinical efficacy and/or decreased toxicity are also provided.
Abstract: Methods for display of recombinant whole immunoglobulins or immunoglobulin libraries on the surface of eukaryote host cells, including yeast and filamentous fungi, are described. The methods are useful for screening libraries of recombinant immunoglobulins in eukaryote host cells to identify immunoglobulins that are specific for an antigen of interest.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 10, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Bianka Prinz, Natarajan Sethuraman, Dongxing Zha, Stefan Wildt, Piotr Bobrowicz
Abstract: The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and a multi-RTK inhibitor, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer. The multi-RTK inhibitor may be represented by Formula (I): wherein R1 is C1-6 alkyl or C3-8 cycloalkyl, R2 is a hydrogen atom or C1-6 alkoxy, and R3 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom. A tumor therapeutic agent is disclosed that combines a compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof represented by Formula I and an anti-PD-1 antibody.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to prodrugs of compound A: which are nucleoside reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitors (NRTTI) and are useful in the inhibition of HIV reverse transcriptase. The present invention also relates to the use of these compounds for prophylaxis of infection by HIV, treatment of infection by HIV, and prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS and/or AIDS-related complexes.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 26, 2024
Publication date:
August 29, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Mark W. Embrey, Jay A. Grobler, Mark E. Layton, Izzat T. Raheem
Abstract: Described herein are compounds of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein A, E, U, X, Y, Z, R1, R2 and n are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula I act as IL4I1 inhibitors and can be useful in preventing, treating or acting as a remedial agent for IL4I1-related diseases. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention, or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and methods of treatment with the compounds of the invention.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 23, 2022
Publication date:
August 29, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
BRANDON D. CASH, GEORGE MADALIN GIAMBASU, ANDREW M. HAIDLE, BRETT A. HOPKINS, MATTHEW A. LARSEN, CHARLES A. LESBURG, PING LIU, RYAN QUIROZ, SULAGNA SANYAL, CATHERINE M. WHITE, XIN YAN, XIAO MEI ZHENG
Abstract: The present invention provides genetic markers on human chromosome 6 that are associated with a beneficial response to a treatment that targets Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) toxin B (TcdB), e.g. a TcdB antibody. These TcdB treatment response markers are useful, inter alia, to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment that targets TcdB in methods of treating patients having a disease susceptible to treatment with a TcdB antibody, and in methods for selecting the most appropriate therapy for such patients. The invention also provides antibodies, drug products, and kits useful with the TcdB Treatment response markers of the invention.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 7, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 27, 2024
Assignees:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen
Inventors:
Peter M. Shaw, Devan V. Mehrotra, Rebecca L. Blanchard, Judong Shen, Robin Mogg, Mary Beth Dorr, Junhua Li, Xun Xu
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention avoid the processing problems associated with using conventional computer systems for identifying and characterizing all of the substructures (e.g., metabolites) of large complex molecules by using a defined minimum cleavable unit (MCU) and an MCU graph for a chosen molecule, as well as a “cut vertex” in the MCU graph for the chosen molecule. The system splits the MCU graph of the chosen molecule at the specified cut vertex to produce two separate MCU graph components (i.e., a first MCU subgraph and a second MCU subgraph) of the chosen molecule, and generates and traverses a first line graph component and a second line graph component, respectively, for the two MCU subgraph components with a graph traversing algorithm to generate and store in memory a first database of substructures and molecular weights for the first component, and a second database of substructures and molecular weights for the second line graph component.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2019
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Arthur Fridman, Ansuman Bagchi, Xiang Yu, Mark Cancilla
Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) which are inhibitors of an IDO enzyme: Formula (I). Also disclosed herein are uses of the compounds in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising these compounds. Further disclosed herein are uses of the compositions in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 1, 2019
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Yongxin Han, David Jonathan Bennett, Indu Bharathan, Liangqin Guo, Brett A. Hopkins, Xianhai Huang, Derun Li, Min Lu, Alexander Pasternak, David L. Sloman, Hongjun Zhang, Hua Zhou
Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain 9-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline compounds of the structural Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein, ring A, R1 and R2 are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other therapeutically active agents), and methods for their preparation and use, alone and in combination with other therapeutic agents, as antagonists of A2a and/or A2b receptors, and in the treatment of a variety of diseases, conditions, or disorders that are mediated, at least in part, by the adenosine A2a receptor and/or the adenosine A2b receptor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 31, 2022
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Matthew A. Larsen, Amjad Ali, Jared Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng, Thomas H. Graham, Elisabeth Hennessy, Andrew J. Hoover, Ping Liu, Kun Liu, Umar Faruk Mansoor, Jianping Pan, Christopher W. Plummer, Aaron Sather, Uma Swaminathan, Huijun Wang, Yonglian Zhang
Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which polysaccharides, typically from bacteria, are conjugated to a carrier protein by reductive amination under conditions which improve conjugation reaction consistency, increase consumption of protein during conjugation reaction, generate conjugates of higher molecular weight, and/or reduce the levels of free cyanide in the conjugate reaction product. The polysaccharide-protein conjugates obtained using these methods are useful for inclusion in multivalent vaccines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 10, 2021
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Inventors:
Jitin Bajaj, Michael Albert Winters, Emily Wen, Jian He
Abstract: The present invention relates to a scalable process for the purification of human cytomegalovirus particles from cell culture medium. In particular, the process involves a two step chromatography process starting with an anion exchange chromatography step followed by a polishing chromatography step selected from mixed mode chromatography or cation exchange chromatography.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Adam Kristopeit, Janelle Konietzko, Wanli Ma, Katherine Phillips, Andrew Swartz, Sheng-Ching Wang, Marc D. Wenger, Matthew Woodling, Tiago Matos
Abstract: A method is described for producing a pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide protein conjugate in which one or more activated pneumococcal polysaccharides of particular pneumococcal serotypes and carrier protein are separately lyophilized, the separately lyophilized polysaccharides and carrier protein are separately reconstituted in an organic solvent, and the reconstituted polysaccharide and carrier protein are then combined together by Tee-mixing and conjugated together to produce polysaccharide carrier protein conjugates. A plurality of conjugates, each comprising polysaccharides of a particular serotype, may be used to produce multivalent pneumococcal immunogenic compositions having a combination of conjugates for use in vaccines.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 17, 2024
Publication date:
August 8, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Patrick Leonard Ahl, Akhilesh Bhambhani, Christopher Jon Farrell, Patrick McHugh, Morrisa C. Jones, Daniel D. Roth, Jessica R. Sinacola, Justin Stanbro, Matthew P. Watson, Emily Wen, Michael A. Winters
Abstract: The present invention relates to efficient synthetic processes useful in the preparation of Compound A, a BTK inhibitor of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, including the preparation of intermediates used to make Compound A or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 26, 2022
Publication date:
August 8, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Yonggang Chen, James Corry, Richard Desmond, Michael J. Di Maso, Jacob H. Forstater, Jeffrey T. Kuethe, Nadine Kuhl, Reed Larson, Francois Levesque, Karthik Narsimhan, Douglas Otte, Christopher K. Prier, Michael Shevlin, Eric Sirota, Lushi Tan, David A. Thaisrivongs, Ben W. H. Turnbull, Zhixun Wang, Kaijiong Xiao
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound suvorexant, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a concentration-enhancing polymer, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 9, 2024
Publication date:
August 8, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Paul A. Harmon, Narayan Variankaval, Michael Lowinger, Chad David Brown, Francis Flanagan
Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I, Formula Ia and Formula Ib and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof, which are DGAT2 inhibitors. Also provided are methods of making compounds of Formula I, Formula Ia and Formula Ib, pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, Formula Ia and Formula Ib, and methods of using these compounds to treat hepatic steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), hepatic fibrosis, type-2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, cognitive decline, dementia, cardiorenal diseases such as chronic kidney diseases and heart failure and related diseases and conditions, comprising administering a compound of Formula I, Ia and Ib and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof, to a patient in need thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 30, 2023
Publication date:
August 1, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Yeon-Hee Lim, Cedric L. Hugelshofer, James P. Roane, Samantha E. Shockley