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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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
Abstract: A functional cell-based potency assay for measuring the biological activity of IL-2 mutants with biased activity for the IL-2 receptor beta-gamma complex is described. In particular, the present invention relates to a Kit225 cell line that lacks expression of the IL-2 receptor alpha and its use in said functional cell-based potency assay.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 2, 2022
Publication date:
August 1, 2024
Applicant:
MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
Inventors:
DANILA G. GIACONE, DAVID P. SANDEN, AARRON WILLINGHAM, JUNMING YIE
Abstract: The present disclosure provides transaminase enzymes having improved properties and are capable of reducing (1S,5R)-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-4-one with high selectivity. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the transaminase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the transaminase enzymes, and methods of using the transaminase enzymes to synthesize (1S,4R,5R)-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-4-amine.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 26, 2022
Publication date:
July 25, 2024
Applicant:
MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
Inventors:
Karla M. Camacho Soto, Wai Ling Cheung-Lee, Hsing-I Ho, John McIntosh, Grant S. Murphy, Weilan Pan, Christopher K. Prier, Deeptak Verma
Abstract: The invention discloses a synthesizing method of benzimidazole derivant and intermediate, which is characterized by the following: proceeding arylation among aryl halide and primary amine; adopting L-pro as additive, cuprous iodide as catalyst; proceeding molecular arylation coupling reaction for aryl iodide or aryl bromide and primary amine; adopting iodo phenylamine compound and bromophenylamine compound as starting material; synthesizing the material through several-step transformation.
Inventors:
George Madalin GIAMBASU, Andrew M. HAIDLE, Brett A. HOPKINS, James P. JEWELL, Matthew A. LARSEN, Charles A. LESBURG, Ping LIU, Qinglin PU, Sulagna SANYAL, Phieng SILIPHAIVANH, Matthew TUDOR, Catherine M. WHITE, Xin YAN, Lianyun ZHAO, Xiao Mei ZHENG, William P. KAPLAN, Michaelyn Claire LUX, Derun LI, Rebecca JOHNSON
Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of Nav1.8 channel activity and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by Nav1.8 channel activity. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of pain disorders, cough disorders, acute itch disorders, and chronic itch disorders.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 2, 2022
Publication date:
July 25, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Ashok Arasappan, Ian M. Bell, Jason M. Cox, Michael J. Kelly, III, Mark Eric Layton, Hong Liu, Jian Liu, Akshay A. Shah, Michael D. VanHeyst
Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods of treatment of cancer in patients with altered activity or amount of a SETD2 biomarker with a treatment regimen comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1).
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 16, 2022
Publication date:
July 25, 2024
Applicant:
MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
Inventors:
Razvan CRISTESCU, Elisha DETTMAN, Yongjin LI, Karla Gabriela RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ, Michael NEBOZHYN, Rodolfo Fleury PERINI, Raluca Andreia PREDOIU, Yiwei ZHANG
Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 9, 2024
Publication date:
July 25, 2024
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Inventors:
Kalpit A. Vora, Kara S. Cox, Aimin Tang, Zhifeng Chen, Daniel DiStefano, Lan Zhang, Hua-Poo Su