Patents Assigned to University of Bonn
  • Publication number: 20220220135
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel highly selective and potent NPP1 inhibitors, compositions comprising such, and their use as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, ICHILOV TECH LTD, LAVAL UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF BONN
    Inventors: Hana Bilha FISCHER, Molhm NASSIR, Vadim ZELIKMAN, Uri Moshe ARAD, Jean SEVIGNY, Christa MULLER
  • Publication number: 20210169911
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compound of formula (I), wherein Q, U, T, A, a, b, c, and n are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting ecto-5?-nucleotidase, inhibiting suppression of an antitumor immune response, inhibiting tumor growth of a cancerous tumor, inhibiting metastasis of cancer in a mammal afflicted with cancer, synergistically enhancing a response of a mammal afflicted with cancer undergoing treatment with an immunotherapeutic anti-cancer agent, potentiating an activity of an inhibitor of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase in a mammal undergoing treatment of a mammal with the inhibitor, and treating preeclampsia in a mammal in need thereof, comprising administering to an animal an effective amount of a compound of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicants: The United States of America,as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human Services, University of Bonn, University of Münster
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Jacobson, Anna Junker, Mirko Scortichini, Clemens Dobelmann, Christian P. Renn, Vigneshwaran Namasivayam, Riham Mohammed Idris, Christa E. Müller
  • Patent number: 11014956
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, among other things, compounds comprising cyclic dinucleotides containing a 2',5' linkage useful in the design of research tools, as research tools, and as therapeutic modalities such as enzyme modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; The Rockefeller, University; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Bonn
    Inventors: Dinshaw J. Patel, Thomas Tuschl, Manuel Ascano, Jr., Yang Wu, Yizhou Liu, Winfried Barchet, Gunther Hartmann, Thomas Zillinger, Roger Jones, Barbara L. Gaffney, Pu Gao
  • Patent number: 10385091
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions, methods, kits, and assays related to the use and/or exploitation of isomers of cGAMP as well as the structure of the enzyme cGAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Bonn
    Inventors: Dinshaw J. Patel, Thomas Tuschl, Manuel Ascano, Jr., Yang Wu, Yizhou Liu, Winfried Barchet, Gunther Hartmann, Thomas Zillinger, Roger Jones, Barbara L. Gaffney, Pu Gao
  • Patent number: 10176292
    Abstract: The present invention provides STING crystals. The present invention also provides STING modulators that interact with sites present in and/or defined by such crystals. The present invention also provides methods of making and using such crystals and modulators. Other aspects and/or features of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, reading the present specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Bonn
    Inventors: Dinshaw J. Patel, Thomas Tuschl, Roger Jones, Gunther Hartmann, Winfried Barchet, Thomas Zillinger, Weiyi Wang, Pu Gao, Liang Deng, Manuel Ascano, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10131686
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions, methods, kits, and assays related to the use and/or exploitation of isomers of cGAMP as well as the structure of the enzyme cGAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Bonn
    Inventors: Dinshaw J. Patel, Thomas Tuschl, Manuel Ascano, Jr., Yang Wu, Yizhou Liu, Winfried Barchet, Gunther Hartmann, Thomas Zillinger, Roger Jones, Barbara L. Gaffney, Pu Gao
  • Patent number: 9840533
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, among other things, novel cyclic-GMP-AMP (cGAMP) analogs, mimics, mimetics and variants, and compositions and kits thereof; methods of using the compounds as described herein for treating cancer, and immune disease, disorders, or conditions; methods of using the compounds as described herein for modulating cGAS and STING; and methods of designing or characterizing a cGAS modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignees: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, The Rockefeller University, University of Bonn
    Inventors: Dinshaw Patel, Thomas Tuschl, Manuel Ascano, Jr., Yang Wu, Yizhou Liu, Winfried Barchet, Gunther Hartmann, Thomas Zillinger, Roger Jones, Barbara L. Gaffney, Pu Gao