Patents Assigned to The Broad Institute
  • Publication number: 20210139872
    Abstract: The disclosure includes non-naturally occurring or engineered CRISPR Cas9, each associated with at least one destabilization domain (DD), along with compositions, systems and complexes involving the DD-CRISPR Cas9, nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding the same, delivery systems involving the same, uses therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Feng ZHANG, Bernd Zetsche, Amit Choudhary
  • Patent number: 11001622
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for suppressing an immune response in a subject, e.g., a subject with an autoimmune disease, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of recombinant CD5L, CD5L homodimers and/or CD5L:p40 heterodimers, or nucleic acids encoding any of these. Also described are methods for enhancing an immune response in a subject, e.g., a subject with cancer, infection, or an immune deficiency, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds specifically to CD5L, D5L homodimers and/or CD5L:p40 heterodimers, and inhibits their binding to the IL-23 receptor, or inhibits formation of the CD5L homodimer and/or CD5L:p40 heterodimer, or inhibitory nucleic acids that target CD5L and/or p40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Vijay K. Kuchroo, Chao Wang, Aviv Regev, Karthik Shekhar
  • Patent number: 11001829
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Silvana Konermann, Mark D. Brigham, Alexandra Trevino
  • Patent number: 10993997
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for profiling subject specific and personalized T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires using a single-cell sequencing method. More particularly, disclosed are methods for determining binding of T cell receptors to subject specific neoantigens. In addition, the techniques herein may identify the antigenic targets of T cell receptors in the context of tumor neoantigens. Moreover, the present disclosure enables the discovery of T cell targets in numerous diseases, with implications for understanding the basic mechanisms of the mammalian immune response and for developing antigen-specific diagnostic markers and therapies. Finally, cloned TCRs can be used to formulate personalized immunotherapies for those inflicted with a disease, such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Nir Hacohen, Catherine Ju-Ying Wu, Edward F. Fritsch, Ute E. Burkhardt
  • Patent number: 10981932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to macrocyclic indole derivatives of general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, A and L 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 2019 compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of hyperproliferative disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, The Broad Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Anna Liesa Johannes, Philipp Buchgraber, Ulrich Klar, Clara Christ, Kai Thede, Joachim Kuhnke, Manfred Moewes, Knut Eis, Amaury Fernandez-Montalvan, Nicolas Werbeck, Ursula Moenning, Philip Lienau, Ulrike Sack, Arne Scholz, Michael H. Serrano-Wu, Chris Lemke, David McKinney, Mark Fitzgerald, Christopher Nasveschuk, Kiel Lazarski, Steven James Ferrara, Laura Furst, Guo Wei, Patrick R. McCarren
  • Patent number: 10982289
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hybridization probes useful for rapid hybridization to realize a practicable and affordable pathogen diagnostic based on RNA signature detection, technology and hardware. In particular, the present invention relates to a nucleic acid structure which may comprise nucleic acid tiles, wherein each nucleic acid tile comprises nucleic acid oligomers, wherein each nucleic acid oligomer hybridizes to each other thereby forming a nucleic acid tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Paul Blainey, Jacob de Riba Borrajo
  • Publication number: 20210108196
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to libraries, compositions, methods, applications, kits and screens used in functional genomics that focus on gene function in a cell and that may use vector systems and other aspects related to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas systems and components thereof. 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 provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Feng ZHANG, Ophir SHALEM, Neville Espi SANJANA, John DOENCH, David ROOT, Ella Nicole BIEWENER HARTENIAN
  • Patent number: 10968257
    Abstract: The disclosure provides novel programmable targeting sequences and applications thereof. The targeting sequences can be engineered for binding to proteins, polypeptides, and other macromolecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Feng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10968484
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and devices for determining molecular signatures in a cancer that predict response to a MARPK pathway inhibitor and methods of use of such signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory M. Johannessen, David J. Konieczkowski, Levi A. Garraway
  • Publication number: 20210088422
    Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing cells of interest from a larger group of cells are provided. In some embodiments, the cells are held within cell culture media inside a chamber during laser dissection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Broad Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Stamatios Papathanasiou, Huaibin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10954514
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to CRISPR systems or complexes, such as those with an escorted guide RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: James E. Dahlman, Feng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10954242
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I), (II), and (III). The provided compounds are able to bind protein kinases (e.g., SIK) and may be useful in modulating (e.g., inhibiting) the activity of a protein kinase (e.g., SIK, (e.g., SIK1, SIK2, or SIK3)) in a subject or cell. The provided compounds may be useful in treating or preventing a disease (e.g., proliferative disease, musculoskeletal disease, genetic disease, hematological disease, neurological disease, painful condition, psychiatric disorder, or metabolic disorder) in a subject in need thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Yanke Liang, Hwan Geun Choi, Thomas Sundberg, Alykhan Shamji, Ramnik Xavier, David E. Fisher, Nisma Mujahid
  • Publication number: 20210079407
    Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. 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 provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for selecting specific cells by introducing precise mutations utilizing the CRISPR/Cas system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Feng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210047617
    Abstract: The present invention features assays for co-culturing primary cells while maintaining key biological activities specific to the primary cells. The invention is based, at least in part, on the discovery that compositions and methods for primary cells in a high-throughput co-culture platform, image analysis for distinguishing cells in co-cultures and assays that are suitable for screening of agents in epithelial cells, such as hepatocytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: The Broad Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Sangeeta Bhatia, Jing Shan, Anne Carpenter Van Dyk, David Logan, Nathan Ross
  • Publication number: 20210040546
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Feng ZHANG, Bernd ZETSCHE, Jonathan S. GOOTENBERG, Omar O. ABUDAYYEH, Ian SLAYMAKER
  • Publication number: 20200399626
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and compositions for treating blood diseases/disorders, such as sickle cell disease, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, and beta-thalassemia. For example the disclosure provides therapeutic guide RNAs that target the promotor of HBG1/2 to generate point mutations that increase expression of fetal hemoglobin. As another example, the disclosure provides therapeutic guide RNAs that target mutations in HBB, Factor VIII, and HFE to treat sickle cell disease, beta-thalassemia, hemophilia and hemochromatosis. The disclosure also provides fusion proteins comprising a Cas9 (e.g., a Cas9 nickase) domain and adenosine deaminases that deaminate adenosine in DNA. In some embodiments, the fusion proteins are in complex with nucleic acids, such as guide RNAs (gRNAs), which target the fusion proteins to a DNA sequence (e.g., an HBG1 or HBG2 protmoter sequence, or an HFE, GBB, or F8 gene sequence).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Flarvard College, Beam Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Nicole Gaudelli, Michael S. Packer, Gregory Newby
  • Patent number: 10870885
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to compositions and methods for identifying the regulatory network that modulates, controls or otherwise influences dendritic cell (DC) response(s), for example, dendritic cell maturation, dendritic cell antiviral response(s) and/or dendritic cell inflammatory response(s), as well compositions and methods for exploiting the regulatory network that modulates, controls or otherwise influences dendritic cell response(s) in a variety of therapeutic and/or diagnostic indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Aviv Regev, Alexander K. Shalek, Rahul Satija, Hongkun Park
  • Publication number: 20200392541
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Feng ZHANG, Le Cong, Fei Ran
  • Publication number: 20200389425
    Abstract: 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 or 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 provided are 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Rockefeller University
    Inventors: Sangeeta Bhatia, Charles Rice, Feng Zhang, David Benjamin Turitz Cox, Vyas Ramanan, Robert Schwartz, Amir Shlomai
  • Publication number: 20200377912
    Abstract: 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 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 provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Feng ZHANG, Patrick HSU, Chie-Yu LIN, Fei RAN