Patents by Inventor Aimin Zhou

Aimin Zhou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8802895
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (I), a pharmaceutical composition thereof, a method of preparing a medicament for the treatment of a cancer, and a method of treating cancers. The invention exhibits merits against cancers such as significantly higher potency and effectiveness over a broader range of cancers. In formula (I), Ra is a benzyl group with alkyl and/or alkoxy; Rb is selected from H and alkyl groups; Rf is an alkyl; and R3 is selected from a substituted phenyl, a heterocyclic group, and wherein Rc is selected from a fused ring, fused rings, and any bivalent cyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Cleveland State University
    Inventors: Bin Su, Aimin Zhou, Yan Xu
  • Publication number: 20130102011
    Abstract: Diagnostic tests for characterizing a test subject's risk of developing or having cancer, based on determining the level of LRG1 and/or CD13 in a bodily sample obtained from a test subject are described. Levels of LRG1 and/or CD13 are then compared to a predetermined value that is derived from measurements of the levels of LRG1 and/or CD13 in comparable bodily samples obtained from control subjects. Such comparison characterizes the test subject's risk of developing or having cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aimin Zhou, Hongli Liu, Chun Zeng
  • Publication number: 20120095092
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (I), a pharmaceutical composition thereof, a method of preparing a medicament for the treatment of a cancer, and a method of treating cancers. The invention exhibits merits against cancers such as significantly higher potency and effectiveness over a broader range of cancers. In formula (I), Ra is a benzyl group with alkyl and/or alkoxy; Rb is selected from H and alkyl groups; Rf is an alkyl; and R3 is selected from a substituted phenyl, a heterocyclic group, and wherein Rc is selected from a fused ring, fused rings, and any bivalent cyclic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Bin Su, Aimin Zhou, Yan Xu
  • Patent number: 7739206
    Abstract: A system and method for combining the model-based and genetics-based methods are combined according to a convergence criterion. When the population is not converged, the genetics-based approach is used, and when the population is converged, the model-based method is used to generate offspring. The algorithm benefits from using a model-based offspring generation only when the population shows a certain degree of regularity, i.e., converged in a stochastic sense. In addition, a more sophisticated method to construct the stochastic part of the model can be used. Also a biased Gaussian noise (the mean of the noise is not zero), as well as a white Gaussian noise (the mean of the noise is zero) can be preferably used for the stochastic part of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Sendhoff, Yaochu Jin, Edward Tsang, Qingfu Zhang, Aimin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20070174221
    Abstract: A system and method for combining the model-based and genetics-based methods are combined according to a convergence criterion. When the population is not converged, the genetics-based approach is used, and when the population is converged, the model-based method is used to generate offspring. The algorithm benefits from using a model-based offspring generation only when the population shows a certain degree of regularity, i.e., converged in a stochastic sense. In addition, a more sophisticated method to construct the stochastic part of the model can be used. Also a biased Gaussian noise (the mean of the noise is not zero), as well as a white Gaussian noise (the mean of the noise is zero) can be preferably used for the stochastic part of the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Sendhoff, Yaochu Jin, Edward Tsang, Qingfu Zhang, Aimin Zhou
  • Patent number: 6762038
    Abstract: Mammalian somatic cells having a homozygous disruption in the gene which encodes the endonbonuclease RNase L and a homyzgous disruption in the gene which encodes the double-stranded RNA dependent kinase PKR are provided. Methods for producing enhanced levels of recombinant proteins in mammalian cell systems are also provided. In one aspect the method employs cells having a homozygous disruption in the RNase L gene and a homozygous disruption in the PKR gene and comprises transfecting the cells with a nucleic acid, or polynucleotide, encoding a desired, exogenous protein; expressing the exogenous protein in the cell; and isolating the exogenous protein from the transfected cells. In another aspect the method employs RNase L null cells transfected with a nucleic acid encoding a desired, exogenous protein. In another aspect the methods employ mutant cells hating a homozygous disruption in the PKR gene, i.e. PKR null cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Robert H. Silverman, Bryan R. G. Williams, Fulvia Terenzi, Aimin Zhou, Sandy Der
  • Publication number: 20030104574
    Abstract: Mammalian somatic cells having a homozygous disruption in the gene which encodes the endoribonuclease known as RNase L and a homyzgous disruption in the gene which encodes the double-stranded RNA dependent kinase known as PKR. Methods for producing enhanced levels of recombinant proteins, or polypeptides, in mammalian cell systems are also provided. In one aspect the method employs cells having a homozygous disruption in the RNase L gene and a homozygous disruption PKR gene and comprises transfecting the cells with a nucleic acid, or polynucleotide, encoding a desired, exogenous protein, or polypeptide; expressing the exogenous protein in the cell; and isolating the exogenous protein from the transfected cells. In another aspect the method employs RNase L null cells transfected with a nucleic acid encoding a desired, exogenous protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Robert H. Silverman, Bryan R.G. Williams, Fulvia Terenzi, Aimin Zhou, Sandy Der
  • Patent number: 6028243
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mutant, non-human mammal, particularly a mutant mouse, having a homozygous disruption in the RNase L gene thereof. Since the homozygous disruption in the RNase L gene leads to minimal if any production of RNase L in the mutant mammals, such mutant mammals are useful for assessing the effect of antiviral drugs on the induction, synthesis, or activation of RNase L. The present invention also relates to mutant, non-human, embryonic stem cell lines having a heterozygous disruption of the RNase L gene thereof, to isolated mammalian cells having a homozygous disruption in the RNase L gene thereof, and to a DNA construct comprising a DNA sequence of a disrupted coding exon of a RNase L gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Robert H. Silverman, Aimin Zhou
  • Patent number: 5972678
    Abstract: Isolated 2-5A-dependent RNases, an interferon-induced enzyme which is activated by 5'-phosphorylated, 2',5'-linked oligoadenylates (2-5A) and implicated in both the molecular mechanisms of interferon action and in the fundamental control of RNA stability in mammalian cells, and encoding sequences therefor are disclosed. The expression cloning and analysis of murine and human 2-5A-dependent RNases is also disclosed. Recombinant human 2-5A-dependent RNase produced in vitro bound an activating affinity matrix, 2-5A-cellulose, resulting in ribonuclease activity. The 2-5A binding properties of the recombinant and naturally occurring forms of 2-5A-dependent RNase are basically identical. Interferon induction of 2-5A-dependent RNase expression is demonstrated by measuring the mRNA levels in cells treated with interferon and cycloheximide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Robert H. Silverman, Bret A. Hassel, Aimin Zhou
  • Patent number: 5877019
    Abstract: 2-5A-dependent RNase, an endoribonuclease that requires 5'-phosphorylated 2',5'-linked oligoadenylates (2-5A), functions in the molecular mechanism of interferon action. Recombinant, 2-5A-dependent RNase was expressed to high levels (at least 10% of the soluble protein) in insect cells by infecting with baculovirus containing human cDNA to 2-5A-dependent RNase. In contrast, there was no 2-5A-dependent RNase present in control insect cells infected with nonrecombinant baculovirus. The purified, recombinant enzyme eluted from a gel-filtration column as a monomer that showed potent and highly specific, 2-5A-dependent RNase activity. Precise activitor requirements were determined using the purified enzyme of a variety of 2',5'-linked oligonucleotides. The activated enzyme was capable of cleaving both poly(rU) and, to a lesser extent, poly(rA) but not poly(rC), poly(rG), or poly(dT. Interestingly, poly(rU) was cleaved to a series of discrete products ranging between 5 and 22 nucleotides in length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Robert H. Silverman, Bret A. Hassel, Aimin Zhou
  • Patent number: 5840577
    Abstract: Isolated 2-5A-dependent RNases, an interferon-induced enzyme which is activated by 5'-phosphorylated, 2',5'-linked oligoadenylates (2-5A) and implicated in both the molecular mechanisms of interferon action and in the fundamental control of RNA stability in mammalian cells, and encoding sequences therefor are disclosed. The expression cloning and analysis of murine and human 2-5A-dependent RNases is also disclosed. Recombinant human 2-5A-dependent RNase produced in vitro bound an activating affinity matrix, 2-5A-cellulose, resulting in ribonuclease activity. The 2-5A binding properties of the recombinant and naturally occurring forms of 2-5A-dependent RNase are basically identical. Interferon induction of 2-5A-dependent RNase expression is demonstrated by measuring the mRNA levels in cells treated with interferon and cycloheximide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Robert H. Silverman, Bret A. Hassel, Aimin Zhou