Patents Assigned to The Broad Institute
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Publication number: 20250136599Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), formula (I), processes for their production and their use as pharmaceuticals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicants: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Siegel, Franziska Siegel, Volker Schulze, Markus Berger, Keith Graham, Detlev Sülzle, Ulf Bömer, Daniel Korr, Jens Schröder, Ursula Mönning, Michael Niehues, Matthew Meyerson, Heidi Greulich, Bethany Kaplan
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Publication number: 20250129400Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, reagents, and methods for producing capped, circular RNA molecules, circularized RNA molecules, and in particular, circularized mRNA molecules encoding a polypeptide such as a therapeutic protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Xiao WANG, Hongyu CHEN, Abhishek ADITHAM
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Publication number: 20250127768Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein is generally directed to treating cancers sensitive to phosphate dysregulation with inhibitors of inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) synthesis, in particular, inhibitors of inositol hexakisphosphate kinases IP6Ks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: The Broad Institute, Inc.Inventors: Todd GOLUB, Daniel BONDESON
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Patent number: 12281301Abstract: The invention provides a cell library for use in detecting protein expression comprising a plurality of cells, wherein each cell comprises a polynucleotide sequence encoding a detectable marker integrated into the genome of the cell in frame with a protein coding gene selected from a set of target genes, wherein the library comprises more than one cell tagged at each target gene, as well as a cell library for use in detecting protein interactions between a protein of interest and a set of target proteins and a cell library for use in detecting protein modifications. The invention also provides methods of constructing a cell library for use in proteomics, as well as methods for sequencing integration sites of a donor sequence inserted into the genome of a cell. Also provided are systems for analysis of proteins in a cell and kits comprising vectors for tagging a population of cells and for performing proteomics studies.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, Jonathan Leo Schmid-Burgk, Veit Hornung
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Patent number: 12281303Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided herein for conducting prime editing of a target DNA molecule (e.g., a genome) that enables the incorporation of a nucleotide change and/or targeted mutagenesis. The compositions include fusion proteins comprising nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins (napDNAbp) and a polymerase (e.g., reverse transcriptase), which is guided to a specific DNA sequence by a modified guide RNA, named an PEgRNA. The PEgRNA has been altered (relative to a standard guide RNA) to comprise an extended portion that provides a DNA synthesis template sequence which encodes a single strand DNA flap which is synthesized by the polymerase of the fusion protein and which becomes incorporated into the target DNA molecule.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: David R. Liu, Andrew Vito Anzalone, James William Nelson
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Patent number: 12281338Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure provide strategies, systems, reagents, methods, and kits that are useful for the targeted editing of nucleic acids or the modification of nucleic acids or proteins, including editing a single site within the genome of a cell or subject, e.g., within the human genome. In some embodiments, fusion proteins of nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins e.g., GeoCas9 or variants thereof, and effector domains, e.g., deaminase domains, are provided. In some embodiments, methods for targeted nucleic acid editing or protein modification are provided. In some embodiments, reagents and kits for the generation of targeted nucleic acid editing proteins, e.g., fusion proteins of a GeoCas9 and effector domains, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: David R. Liu, Yongjoo Kim
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Publication number: 20250120676Abstract: Echocardiography deep learning and cardiovascular outcomes are described. An echocardiogram analysis module may include a deep learning model to generate a video output for an input echocardiogram video, the deep learning model comprising a convolutional neural network and at least one dense layer. The echocardiogram analysis module may further include a cardiac prediction generator to generate a cardiac prediction based on video outputs generated for a plurality of input echocardiogram videos of an echocardiogram study, the cardiac prediction comprising a measurement prediction or a classification prediction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicants: The General Hospital Corporation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., The Broad Institute, Inc.Inventors: Patrick T. Ellinor, II, Emily S. Lau, Jennifer Ho, Mostafa Al-Alusi, Paolo Di Achille, Puneet Batra, Steven Lubitz
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Publication number: 20250115901Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided herein for conducting prime editing of a target DNA molecule (e.g., a genome) that enables the incorporation of a nucleotide change and/or targeted mutagenesis. The compositions include fusion proteins comprising nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins (napDNAbp) and a polymerase (e.g., reverse transcriptase), which is guided to a specific DNA sequence by a modified guide RNA, named an PEgRNA. The PEgRNA has been altered (relative to a standard guide RNA) to comprise an extended portion that provides a DNA synthesis template sequence which encodes a single strand DNA flap which is synthesized by the polymerase of the fusion protein and which becomes incorporated into the target DNA molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: David R. Liu, Andrew Vito Anzalone, James William Nelson
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Publication number: 20250109165Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I-A), (I-B), or (I-C), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically enriched forms, prodrugs, or mixtures thereof, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing diseases and/or conditions (e.g., neurological disease (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), metabolic disorder (e.g., obesity, diabetes, X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD)), proliferative disease (e.g., cancers), hepatic disease (e.g., liver cirrhosis), conditions associated with autophagy (e.g., neurodegenerative disease, infection, cancer, conditions associated with aging, heart disease), conditions associated with aging, conditions associated with modulating the mPTP, cardiovascular conditions (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: David R. Liu, Alexander A. Peterson
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Publication number: 20250109177Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to compositions and methods for targeted protein degradation. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of evolving protein degrons to interact with certain small molecule inducers (e.g., VS-777, PT-179, or PK-1016). In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to compositions (e.g., peptides, nucleic acids encoding the protein degrons, etc.) used for targeted protein degradation. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of degrading a target polypeptide in a cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: David R. Liu, Amit Choudhary, Jaron August McClure Mercer, Stephan DeCarlo, Praveen Tiwari, Praveen Kokkonda, Veronika Shoba, Arghya Deb, Sreekanth Vedagopuram
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Patent number: 12264359Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA. Methods for making and using and uses of such systems, methods, and compositions and products from such methods and uses are also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Feng Zhang, Bernd Zetsche, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Ian Slaymaker
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Patent number: 12264367Abstract: Described herein are methods and uses thereof for in vivo evaluating functions of multiple genes in parallel by combining in utero genetic perturbation of progenitor cells and single-cell transcriptomic profiling of progeny cells in animals. These methods can be used, among other things, to reveal in vivo gene functions in a cell type-specific manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Xin Jin, Paola Arlotta, Aviv Regev, Feng Zhang, Sean Simmons
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Patent number: 12264323Abstract: The present invention generally relates to systems, methods and compositions related to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and components thereof. Provided herein are engineered Cpf1 polynucleotides that can direct the activity of a CRISPR protein to multiple targets using a single crRNA. The guide sequences can target a sequence in a eukaryotic cell, for example, an animal or a plant cell. The animal cell can be a human or a nonhuman cell. Additionally, the present invention relates to methods for developing or designing CRISPR-Cas system-based therapy or therapeutics.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: John G. Doench, Ruth Hanna
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Publication number: 20250101468Abstract: The invention provides for delivery, engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are delivery systems and tissues of organ which are targeted as sites for delivery. Also provided are vectors and vector systems some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provide dare methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity and to edit or modify a target site in a genomic locus of interest to alter or improve the status of a disease or a condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Feng ZHANG, Le CONG, Fei RAN
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Publication number: 20250101500Abstract: Described in various embodiments herein are tiled amplification nucleic acid detection systems and uses thereof. In some embodiments, the nucleic acids amplified and detected are cell free DNA (cfDNA).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Deborah HUNG, Gowtham THAKKU, Sharon WONG, James GOMEZ
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Publication number: 20250099623Abstract: The present disclosure relates to treating mitochondrial diseases, cancer and other conditions as a result of reduced oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) activity by overexpressing the METTL17 gene, encoding methyltransferase-like 17. Currently, overexpression of METTL17 to increase its copy number and/or intra-mitochondrial activity has not been indicated as a possible therapeutic for treating mitochondrial disease or other diseases such as cancer or aging related to a decline in OXPHOS activity. A variety of gene therapy approaches are presented for overexpression of METTL17 including, but not limited to, AAV, adenovirus and lentiviral vector expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Vamsi MOOTHA, Tslil AST
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Publication number: 20250101395Abstract: The present disclosure provides Cas protein variants comprising one or more amino acid substitutions relative to wild-type Cas14a1. Fusion proteins comprising the Cas protein variants described herein are also provided by the present disclosure. Further provided herein are methods for modifying a target nucleic acid using the Cas proteins and fusion proteins provided herein. The present disclosure also provides guide RNAs, complexes, polynucleotides, systems, cells, kits, and pharmaceutical compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: David R. Liu, Aditya Raguram
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Patent number: 12258594Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems, methods and compositions related to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and components thereof. The present disclosure also relates to methods, systems, and compostions modified to reduce immunogenicity. Additionally, the present disclosure relates to methods for developing or designing CRISPR-Cas system based therapy or therapeutics.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventor: Feng Zhang
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Patent number: 12258595Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTIT JTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Silvana Konermann, Alexandro Trevino, Mark Brigham, Fei Ran, Patrick Hsu, Chie-Yu Lin, Osamu Nureki, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang
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Patent number: 12258323Abstract: The present invention provides dihydrooxydiazinone compounds of general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, and R4, are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of hyperproliferative diseases, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Ellermann, Stefan Nikolaus Gradl, Charlotte Christine Kopitz, Martin Lange, Adrian Tersteegen, Philip Lienau, Christa Hegele-Hartung, Detlev Sülzle, Timothy A. Lewis, Heidi Greulich, Xiaoyun Wu, Matthew Meyerson, Alex Burgin