Patents Examined by Prema Mertz
  • Patent number: 9687522
    Abstract: A method for treating a subject afflicted with an autoimmune disease with a pharmaceutical composition comprising glatiramer acetate and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, comprising the steps of administering a therapeutic amount of the pharmaceutical composition to the subject, determining whether the subject is a glatiramer acetate responder or a glatiramer acetate hypo-/non-responder by measuring the value of a biomarker selected from the group consisting of IL-10 concentration, IL-17 concentration, IL-18 concentration, TNF-? concentration, BDNF concentration, caspase-1 concentration, IL-10/IL-18 ratio and IL-10/IL-17 ratio in the blood of the subject, and comparing the measured value to a reference value for the biomarker to identify the subject as a glatiramer acetate responder or a glatiramer acetate hypo-/non-responder, and continuing the administration if the subject is identified as a glatiramer acetate responder, or modifying treatment of the subject if the subject is identified as a glatiramer
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut
  • Patent number: 9683037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating pruritic diseases, including but not limited to Contact dermatitis, Atopic Dermatitis, Drug induced delayed type cutaneous allergic reactions, Toxic epidermal necrolysis, Cutaneous T cell Lymphoma, Bullous pemphigoid, Alopecia wereata, Vitiligo, Acne Rosacea, Prurigo nodularis, Scleroderma, Herpes simplex virus, or combination thereof by administering IL-31 monoclonal antibodies. The invention further provides the hybridomas that generate the monoclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ZYMOGENETICS INC
    Inventors: Anthony W. Siadak, Janine Bilsborough, Shirley Rene
  • Patent number: 9676848
    Abstract: Isolated anti-IL-12 antibodies, nucleic acids encoding antibodies or antibody portions, vectors, host cells, and methods of making are useful for production of antibody or portions for treating and/or diagnosing IL-12 related conditions, diseases, and disorders, such as psoriasis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Janssen Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jill Giles-Komar, David M. Knight, David Peritt, Bernard Scallon, David Shealy
  • Patent number: 9669071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel therapies for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. More specifically, the present invention relates to a use of low dose interleukin-2 for the treatment of type I diabetes and other autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale), Assistance Publique—Hopitaux De Paris, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS 6)
    Inventors: David Klatzmann, David Saadoun, Patrice Cacoub, Michèle Rosenzwajg, Eliane Piaggio, Gilbert Bensimon, Claude Bernard
  • Patent number: 9669077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising, by way of active ingredient, at least one polypeptide comprising, or constituted by a sequence constituted by at least 8 contiguous amino acids and from at the most 30 contiguous amino acids chosen from within the interleukin-6 sequence and from at the most 30 contiguous amino acids chosen from within the complete IL-6 sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: PEPTINOV SAS
    Inventors: Lucille Desallais, Mattieu Montes, Jean-Francois Zagury
  • Patent number: 9664689
    Abstract: The present invention provides an immunodiagnostic method for determining procalcitonin and procalcitonin derivatives in a biological sample of a patient, in particular in the monitoring and control of treatment and the monitoring of the progression of a local or systemic bacterial infection, inflammation, sepsis or neurodegenerative disease. In particular, the method detects molecular forms of intact procalcitonin 1-116, or procalcitonin partial peptides derived therefrom that retain amino acids alanine and proline (Ala-Pro, AP) in positions 1 and 2 of the amino terminus of the complete procalcitonin 1-116. The method uses antibodies that selectively bind an epitope comprising amino acids 1 and 2 of procalcitonin 1-116 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and can distinguish between intact procalcitonin 1-116 and for example, procalcitonin 3-116.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: B.R.A.H.M.S GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Bergmann, Joachim Struck
  • Patent number: 9662405
    Abstract: Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind GCC are disclosed. In some embodiments, the antibodies are humanized, chimeric or human. Nucleic acids and vectors encoding the antibodies or portions thereof, recombinant cells that contain the nucleic acids, and compositions comprising the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments are also disclosed. The invention also provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods utilizing the antibodies and antigen-binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Thomas Jefferson University
    Inventors: Scott A. Waldman, Michael S. Magee, Adam E. Snook
  • Patent number: 9636381
    Abstract: Aspects and embodiments of the instant disclosure provide therapeutic methods and compositions comprising interleukin 12 (IL-12) useful for treating radiation-induced damage in a subject. In particular, the instant disclosure provides methods and compositions for radiation protection and/or radiation toxicity mitigation for the treatment of acute radiation syndrome and radiation induced toxicity associated with the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NEUMEDICINES, INC.
    Inventor: Lena A. Basile
  • Patent number: 9631006
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for inhibiting interleukin-3 receptor-expressing cells, and, in particular, inhibiting the growth of such cells by using a diphtheria toxin-human interleukin-3 conjugate (DT-IL3) that is toxic to cells expressing the interleukin-3 receptor. In preferred embodiments, the DT-IL3 conjugate is a fusion protein comprising amino acids 1-388 of diphtheria toxin fused via a peptide linker to full-length, human interleukin-3. In certain embodiments, the methods of the present invention relate to the administration of a DT-IL3 conjugate to inhibit the growth of cancer cells and/or cancer stem cells in humans, which cells express one or more subunits of the interleukin-3 receptor. Exemplary cells include myeloid leukemia cancer stem cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Scott & White Memorial Hospital
    Inventor: Arthur E. Frankel
  • Patent number: 9631016
    Abstract: A pen-injector device comprising an anti-IL-6 antibody with a liquid formulation have applications in diagnostic and/or therapeutic compositions, methods and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: Janssen Biotech, Inc., Applied Molecular Evolution
    Inventors: Yan Chen, Debra Gardner, David M. Knight, Michael W. Lark, Bailin Liang, David M. Marquis, David J. Shealy, Eric Michael Smith, Xiao-yu R. Song, Vedrana Stojanovic-Susulic, Raymond W. Sweet, Susan Tam, Alain P. Vasserot, Sheng-Jiun Wu, Jing Yang
  • Patent number: 9623083
    Abstract: Obesity is associated with a state of chronic low-grade inflammation and the present invention establishes that adipose-resident natural killer T (NKT) cells attenuate inflammation in adipose tissue and improves systemic glucose homeostasis in mice at different stages of obesity. Accordingly, the present invention provides methods of treating type-2 diabetes or those at risk for type-2 diabetes using activators of adipose-resident NKT cells. Such activators include particular glycolipids (e.g., a-galactosylceramide and its analogs other than sulfated analogs) and cytokines that promote M2 macrophage polarization. The invention also includes methods to screen for activators of adipose-resident NKT cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Ling Qi, Yewei Ji
  • Patent number: 9624302
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies against human CSF-1R (CSF-1R antibody), methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Georg Fertig, Alexander Fidler, Klaus Kaluza, Marlene Thomas, Carola Ries, Stefan Seeber
  • Patent number: 9616104
    Abstract: Effective methods of treating a spinal disorder or osteoarthritis associated with a proinflammatory agent in a patient in need of such treatment, the method comprising administering an effective amount of DN-TNF (e.g., XPro®-1595) to a target tissue site at or near the spine or osteoarthritic joint to reduce pain and/or inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
    Inventor: Francois Binette
  • Patent number: 9611307
    Abstract: The present invention discloses novel active polypeptide fragments of human IL-33 corresponding to natural forms generated by the proteases of human neutrophils (cathepsin G, elastase 2, proteinase 3), as well as the use thereof as a drug, in particular for the treatment of infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, or cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Girard, Corinne Cayrol-Girard, Emma Lefrancais
  • Patent number: 9605067
    Abstract: An anti-IL-12 antibody that binds to a portion of the IL-12 protein corresponding to at least one amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of residues 15, 17-21, 23, 40-43, 45-47, 54-56 and 58-62 of the amino acid sequence of the p40 subunit of IL-12, including isolated nucleic acids that encode at least one anti-IL-12 antibody, vectors, host cells, transgenic animals or plants, and methods of making and using thereof have applications in diagnostic and/or therapeutic compositions, methods and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Janssen Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jill Giles-Komar, George Heavner, David Knight, Jinquan Luo, David Peritt, Bernard Scallon, David Shealy
  • Patent number: 9606117
    Abstract: Provided are methods for aiding in diagnosing autoimmune diseases in a mammal, comprising contacting a biological sample that is not a tear sample from the mammal with an antibody that specifically binds to a first polypeptide selected from the group Ctss, Ctsh, Ctsr, Ctsw, Ctsz, Ifng, IL-6ra, IL-10, IL-10ra, IL-15, Tnfa, Apo-F, or Lcn-2 or a second polypeptide selected from the group lactoperoxidase, lactoferrin or lysozyme under conditions favoring the formation of an antibody-polypeptide complex, and determining the amount of complex formed, wherein an increased formation of antibody-first-polypeptide complex or a decreased formation of antibody-second-polypeptide complex as compared to a suitable control, indicates a likely positive diagnosis of an autoimmune disease for the mammal, thereby aiding in the diagnosis. Methods of treating the autoimmune diseases are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventor: Sarah Hamm-Alvarez
  • Patent number: 9605062
    Abstract: The present invention relates to zcytor17lig polynucleotide, polypeptide and anti-zcytor17 antibody molecules. The zcytor17lig is a novel cytokine. The polypeptides may be used within methods for stimulating the immune system, and proliferation and/or development of hematopoietic cells in vitro and in vivo. The present invention also includes methods for producing the protein, uses therefor and antibodies thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ZYMOGENETICS INC
    Inventors: Cindy A. Sprecher, Joseph L. Kuijper, Maria M. Dasovich, Francis J. Grant, Jane A. Gross, Angela K. Hammond
  • Patent number: 9593155
    Abstract: Peptide analogs of oxyntomodulin (OXM, glucagon-37), which have been modified to be resistant to cleavage and inactivation by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) and to increase in vivo half-life of the peptide analog while enabling the peptide analog to act as a dual GLP-1/glucagon receptor (GCGR) agonist are described. The peptide analogs are useful for treatment of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MSD ITALIA S.R.L., INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul E. Carrington, George J. Eiermann, Donald J. Marsh, Joseph M. Metzger, Alessandro Pocai, Ranabir Sinha Roy, Elisabetta Bianchi, Paolo Ingallinella, Antonello Pessi, Alessia Santoprete, Elena Capito, Richard Dimarchi, Brian Ward
  • Patent number: 9587006
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for producing of a polypeptide conjugated to one poly (ethylene glycol) comprising a) providing a nucleic acid encoding an expression construct comprising in 5? to 3? direction a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide, and a nucleic acid encoding a trypsin site of SEQ ID NO: 01, b) expressing the nucleic acid of a) in a cell and recovering the expression construct from the cell and/or the cultivation medium, c) providing a target peptide with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 02 covalently conjugated to a poly (ethylene glycol) at the C-terminal lysine residue, d) incubating the expression construct and the target peptide with the trypsin mutant D189K, K60E, N143H, E151H, and e) recovering and thereby producing the polypeptide conjugated to one poly (ethylene glycol) from the incubation mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Friederike Hesse, Eva Hoess, Stephanie Mueller, Eva Maria Trost-Gross
  • Patent number: 9587018
    Abstract: Antibodies and compositions capable of neutralizing oncostatin M biological functions are useful in treating diseases and disorders associated with oncostatin M, such as osteoarthritis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Almagro, William DuBell, Johann Fransson, Jose Pardinas, Gopalan Raghunathan