Abstract: A dental bur and method for removing a soft deposit from a tooth or an implant, the bur having a shank adapted to be connected to a rotary device. A head extends from the shank. The head has a material hardness adapted to remove soft deposits attached to the tooth but deflect against the tooth. Furthermore, the head is sized for insertion into a periodontal pocket adjacent to the tooth without surgery. Thus, the dental bur may be rotated against the tooth for removing the soft deposits but deflect and/or wear against the tooth for preventing damage to the tooth.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 15, 2013
Publication date:
April 17, 2014
Applicants:
University of Zurich, KerrHawe SA
Inventors:
Patrick R. Schmidlin, Beat Kilcher, Marco Da Rold
Abstract: A motion recognizing apparatus and method are provided. According to an aspect, a motion recognizing apparatus may include: an optical sensor configured to sense at least a portion of a subject where a motion occurs and to output one or more events in response thereto; a motion tracing unit configured to trace a motion locus of the portion where the motion occurs based on the one or more outputted events; and a motion pattern determining unit configured to determine a motion pattern of the portion where the motion occurs based on the traced motion locus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2014
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., University of Zurich
Inventors:
Jun Haeng Lee, Delbruck Tobi, Hyunsurk Ryu, Keun Joo Park, Chang Woo Shin
Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds according to formula (I) for medical use. The compounds are particularly suitable for the treatment and/or prevention of a medical condition involving hypoxic, anoxic and/or inflamed mammalian tissue. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of said compounds for preparing a medicament and to pharmaceutical preparations comprising such compounds. The invention also relates to methods of treating or protecting patients having or being prone to develop a medical condition involving hypoxic, anoxic and/or inflamed mammalian tissue, the methods comprising administration of a therapeutically effective amount of such compounds.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 11, 2013
Publication date:
April 10, 2014
Applicants:
ETH ZURICH, UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH
Inventors:
Ludwig K. Limbach, Inge K. Herrmann, Beatrice Beck-Schimmer, Wendelin J. Stark, Martin Urner
Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding adult plant pathogen resistance proteins. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of the plants to pathogens.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 9, 2013
Publication date:
April 10, 2014
Applicants:
Grains Research and Development Corporation, University of Zurich, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Inventors:
EVANS LAGUDAH, WOLFGANG SPIELMEYER, BEAT KELLER, SIMON KRATTINGER
Abstract: The present invention relates to surgical guides, and methods for their manufacture. The invention provides surgical guides comprising at least one alignment element and at least two guiding elements. The alignment elements can constrain the guiding elements into an initial position which guides a surgical operation, and optionally at least one target position different from the initial position.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 14, 2013
Publication date:
March 13, 2014
Applicants:
University of Zurich, MATERIALISE N.V.
Inventors:
Lara Vigneron, Louis James Keppler, Claudio Fadri Dora, Stephan Herrman Wirth, Elke Antonia Maria Giets
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the technical field of medicine, in particular to the field of neurodegenerative, neurological and protein misfolding disorders such as amyloidosis. By establishing a role of ankG in APP processing the method of the present invention provides a new insight into the role of ankG in AD pathology and provides ankG as a target, drug, diagnostic agent and particularly as a vaccine in the treatment and diagnosis of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 21, 2012
Publication date:
February 13, 2014
Applicant:
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH
Inventors:
Antonella Santuccione Chadha, Mario Merlini, Roger Nitsch, Jan Grimm, Christoph Hock
Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of live mycobacterium of the M. tuberculosis complex for preparing a medicament, wherein the function of the zmp1-gene is inactivated, pharmaceutical compositions prepared from such mycobacteria as well as a method for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of a disease or medical condition using said pharmaceutical composition.
Abstract: A composition for coating comprising at least one compound of formula I and optionally at least one compound of formula II RaSi(R1)n(X1)3-n??I RbSi(R2)m(X2)3-m??II wherein Ra is a straight-chain or branched C(1-24) alkyl group, Rb is an aromatic group, such as an optionally substituted carbocyclic and heterocyclic group comprising five-, six- or ten-membered ring systems, which is linked by a single covalent bond or a spacer unit, such as a straight-chain or branched alkyl residue having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, to the Si— atom, R1 and R2 are independently of each other a lower alkyl group, such as a straight chain and branched hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, X1 and X2 are independently of each other a hydrolysable group, such as a halogen or an alkoxy group and n, m are independently of each other 0 or 1, with the proviso that if n and m are independently of each other 0 or 1, X may represent the same or different groups.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 4, 2011
Date of Patent:
November 19, 2013
Assignee:
University of Zurich Office Vice President of Research
Inventors:
Jan Zimmermann, Stefan Seeger, Georg Artus, Stefan Jung
Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding adult plant pathogen resistance proteins. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of the plants to pathogens.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 25, 2009
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2013
Assignees:
Grains Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of Zurich
Inventors:
Evans Lagudah, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Beat Keller, Simon Krattinger
Abstract: Provided are novel specific binding molecules, particularly human antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize neoepitopes of disease-associated proteins which derive from native endogenous proteins but are prevalent in the body of a patient in a variant form and/or out of their normal physiological context. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding molecules, antibodies and mimics thereof and methods of screening for novel binding molecules, which may or may not be antibodies as well as targets in the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are described.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 14, 2013
Publication date:
October 10, 2013
Applicant:
University of Zurich
Inventors:
Roger NITSCH, Christoph Hock, Christoph Esslinger, Marlen Knobloch, Kathrin Tissot, Jan Grimm
Abstract: Provided are novel specific binding molecules, particularly human antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize neoepitopes of disease-associated proteins which derive from native endogenous proteins but are prevalent in the body of a patient in a variant form and/or out of their normal physiological context. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding molecules, antibodies and mimics thereof and methods of screening for novel binding molecules, which may or may not be antibodies as well as targets in the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are described.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 15, 2013
Publication date:
October 10, 2013
Applicant:
University of Zürich
Inventors:
Roger NITSCH, Christoph Hock, Christoph Esslinger, Marlen Knobloch, Kathrin Tissot, Jan Grimm
Abstract: A graft anchor has first and second arms each having a leading end, a trailing end, an inner surface, and an outer bone contactable surface. The graft anchor also has a resilient bridge extending between the inner surface of the first arm and the inner surface of the second arm to space apart the first arm and the second arm. The resilient bridge defines a graft receiving pathway between the inner surfaces of the first and second arms. The resilient bridge also defines a deflection point about which a force acting upon the resilient bridge in a direction from the leading end to the trailing end causes the leading ends of the first and second arms to move toward one another and the trailing ends of the first and second arms to move away from one another.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 12, 2013
Publication date:
October 3, 2013
Applicants:
University of Zurich, SYNTHES USA, LLC
Inventors:
Nicolas Bouduban, Beat Lechmann, Patrick Burki, Jess Snedeker, Mazda Farshad
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for preventing or treating head and neck squamous cell cancer and bladder cancer using an immunotoxin comprising (a) a ligand that binds to a protein on the cancer cell attached to; (b) a toxin that is cytotoxic to the cancer cell. In a specific embodiment, the invention is directed to the prevention or treatment of head and neck squamous cell cancer or bladder cancer using VB4-845, which is a recombinant immunotoxin comprising a humanized, MOC31-derived, single-chain antibody fragment that is fused to a truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin A. Also encompassed by the invention are combination therapy methods, including the use of reduced dosages of chemotherapeutic agents, for the prevention or treatment of cancer. Also encompassed by the invention are formulations and methods for direct administration of the recombinant immunotoxin to the carcinoma, for the prevention or treatment of cancer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2010
Date of Patent:
October 1, 2013
Assignee:
University of Zurich
Inventors:
Uwe Zangemeister-Wittke, Claudio Di Paolo, Dominique Christine Tschudi, Nicholas Ronald Glover, Dimitri Peter Fitsialos
Abstract: Provided are novel human tumor-specific antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize tumor-associated antigen NY-ESO-1. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies and mimics thereof in the treatment of tumors are described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 13, 2008
Date of Patent:
August 27, 2013
Assignee:
University of Zurich
Inventors:
Christoph Esslinger, Sandra Künzle, Irene Abela, Alfred Zippelius, Dirk Jäger, Alexander Knuth, Roger Nitsch, Holger Moch, Norbert Göbels
Abstract: A device and a method for accurate dispensing of a radioactive liquid are disclosed. A source of a radioactive liquid and a source of a flushing liquid are selectively connected to a fluid delivery path by way of valve means. An activity metering unit is operable to determine a level of radioactivity in a metering section of the fluid delivery path downstream from the valve means. The device is operated by transporting a first amount of radioactive liquid to the metering section, using the activity metering unit to measure a reference level of radioactivity, calculating a second amount of the radioactive liquid still to be delivered such that the first and second amounts of radioactive liquid together have some predetermined level of radioactivity, and delivering the first and second amounts of radioactive liquid to the destination.
Abstract: Provided are novel specific binding molecules, particularly human antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize neoepitopes of disease-associated proteins which derive from native endogenous proteins but are prevalent in the body of a patient in a variant form and/or out of their normal physiological context. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding molecules, antibodies and mimics thereof and methods of screening for novel binding molecules, which may or may not be antibodies as well as targets in the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are described.
Abstract: The invention relates to microRNA-34a and related microRNAs for use in the treatment of B-cell lymphoma. Likewise it relates to microRNA-34a for use in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma, and for a method of treatment of B-cell lymphoma comprising administering microRNA-34a. These claims are based on the observation that microRNA-34a shows strong anti-proliferative effects when overexpressed in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (gDLBCL) cell lines, or when delivered intratumorally or systemically in xenograft models of DLBCL.