Patents by Inventor Alessandro Sette

Alessandro Sette 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).

  • Publication number: 20250231185
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes compositions and methods for detecting the presence of: a coronavirus or an immune response relevant to a coronavirus infection including T cells responsive to one or more coronavirus peptides or proteins comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: one or more amino acid sequences selected from those sequences set forth in Tables 1 to 10 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 3522), or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative thereof; a fusion protein; a pool of 2 or more peptides; or a polynucleotide that encodes one or more peptides or proteins, comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of one or more amino acid sequences set forth in Tables 1 to 10 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 3522), or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative thereof. The disclosure further provides vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, and kits, comprising such proteins or peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Shane Crotty, Bjoern Peters, John Sidney, Alba Grifoni, Daniela Weiskopf, Ricardo Da Silva Antunes
  • Publication number: 20240409587
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes compositions and methods for detecting the presence of: a coronavirus or an immune response relevant to a coronavirus infection including T cells responsive to one or more coronavirus peptides or proteins comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: one or more amino acid sequences selected from those sequences set forth in Table 2 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 292), Table 3 (SEQ ID NOS: 293 to 347), or both, or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative thereof; a fusion protein; a pool of 2 or more peptides; or a polynucleotide that encodes one or more peptides or proteins, comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of one or more amino acid sequences set forth in Table 2 or Table 3, or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative thereof. The disclosure further provides vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, and kits, comprising such proteins or peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Shane Crotty, Grifoni Alba, Daniela Weiskopf, Bjoern Peters
  • Publication number: 20240294900
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for detecting the presence of: a coronavirus or an immune response relevant to a coronavirus infection including T cells responsive to one or more coronavirus peptides or proteins comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: one or more amino acid sequences selected from those sequences set forth in Tables 1 or 2 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 166), or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative thereof; a fusion protein comprising one or more amino acid sequences selected from those sequences set forth in Tables 1 or 2 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 166); a pool of 2 or more peptides selected from the amino acid sequences set forth in Tables 1 or 2 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 166); or a polynucleotide that encodes one or more peptides or proteins, comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of an amino acid sequence selected from those sequences set forth in Tables 1 or 2 (SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 166), or a subsequence, portion, homologue, variant or derivative
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Alba Grifoni, Alison Tarke, Yun Zhang, Richard Scheuerman
  • Publication number: 20240263237
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods for determining whether a subject is suffering from a neurodegenerative disease, and/or methods of treating a neurodegenerative disease. The disclosed methods comprise detecting differential expression one or more genes or gene products from a sample obtained from the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn
  • Publication number: 20230293630
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for detecting the presence of: a coronavirus or an immune response to a coronavirus infection including T cells responsive to one or more coronavirus peptides or proteins comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: one or more amino acid sequences selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants or derivatives; a fusion protein comprising one or more amino acid sequences selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126; a pool of peptides or proteins selected from the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126; or a polynucleotide that encodes one or more peptides or proteins, comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants or derivatives. The invention further provides vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, and kits, comprising such proteins or peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Shane Crotty, Alba Grifoni, Daniela Weiskopf, Bjoern Peters, John Sidney
  • Patent number: 11505581
    Abstract: The specificity of CD4+ TH responses of German cockroach (Bla g) antigens, and whether differences exist in magnitude or functionality as a function of disease severity, is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel German cockroach allergens and epitopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 11421006
    Abstract: The invention provides Cockroach proteins, peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses and medicaments of such proteins, peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof. Such methods, uses and medicaments include modulating an immune response, protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen (e.g., Cockroach allergen) in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Bjoern Peters, Jason Greenbaum
  • Patent number: 11130798
    Abstract: Provided herein are composition comprising novel epitopes of ApoB100, as well as sub-sequences, portions and modifications thereof, and uses thereof for treating adverse cardiovascular events, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis and certain liver disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Klaus Ley, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 11013781
    Abstract: The invention relates to combinations of peptides derived from a portion of an amino sequence of a grass pollen allergen, e.g. the allergens Phl p 1, Phl p 2, Phl p 3, Phl p 4 and/or Phl p 5, or a peptide variant thereof. Such peptides comprise at least one T cell epitope mid a high number of patients in a worldwide population will have HLA Class II alleles with the potential to bind the peptides of the peptide combinations. The invention also relates to the use of such peptide combinations in relieving an immune response caused by grass pollen species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: ALK-ABELLÓ AS, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Claus Lundegaard, Shashank Gupta, Bjoern Peters, Susanne Sønderkær, Jens Brimnes, Peter Adler Würtzen, Helene Henmar, Thomas Christian Mygind, Lise Lund Mærkedahl, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 10918713
    Abstract: The invention relates to common allergen proteins and peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses of common allergen proteins and peptides. Methods include, for example, modulating an immune response; protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease; and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Carla Oseroff, Howard Grey, Bjoern Peters
  • Patent number: 10703784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to M. tuberculosis proteins and peptides, and subsequences, portions or modifications thereof and methods and compounds comprising the same for eliciting, stimulating, inducing, promoting, increasing, or enhancing an anti-M. tuberculosis immune response in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Cecilia Arlehamm, Bjoern Peters, Howard Grey, John Sidney
  • Publication number: 20200123213
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel immunogenic polypeptides identified in house dust mites and storage mites, which have the potential to be used in allergy immunotherapy, for diagnostic purposes, eventually via production of antibodies binding the polypeptide or for characterising allergen extracts of house dust mites and storage mites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicants: ALK-ABELLÓ A/S, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Gitte Lund, Lars Harder Christensen, Thomas Stranzl, Alessandro Sette
  • Publication number: 20200095296
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for assessing whether a subject is at risk of developing a neurological disorder, diagnosing or confirming whether a subject is afflicted with a neurological disorder, assessing a neurological disorder is developing in a subject who has been identified as being at risk of developing the neurological disorder, assessing whether a subject afflicted with a neurological disorder is likely to benefit iron a therapy, assessing whether a subject afflicted with a neurological disorder has benefited from a therapy, treating a subject afflicted with a neurological disorder, and prophylactically treating a subject who has been identified as being at risk, of developing a neurological disorder. The present invention also provides epitopes, compounds and compositions relating to these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicants: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY, THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC.
    Inventors: David Sulzer, Alessandro Sette, Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn, John Pham, Bjoern Peters
  • Patent number: 10556936
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel immunogenic polypeptides identified in house dust mites and storage mites, which have the potential to be used in allergy immunotherapy, for diagnostic purposes, eventually via production of antibodies binding the polypeptide or for characterising allergen extracts of house dust mites and storage mites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: ALK ABELLÓ, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Gitte Lund, Lars Harder Christensen, Thomas Stranzl, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 10428124
    Abstract: The invention relates to Timothy Grass proteins and peptides, subsequences, portions, homologs, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses of Timothy Grass proteins and peptides. Methods include, for example, modulating an immune response; protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease; and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Veronique Schulten, Howard Grey, Bjoern Peters, Jason Greenbaum
  • Patent number: 10406218
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel targets for immune response modulation, treatment of tuberculosis infection and epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or subsequences, portions or modifications thereof, and methods and compounds for treatment and prevention of tuberculosis infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Bjoern Peters, Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn, Greg Seumois, Pandurangan Vijayanand, Sonia Sharma
  • Publication number: 20190202875
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel immunogenic polypeptides identified in house dust mites and storage mites, which have the potential to be used in allergy immunotherapy, for diagnostic purposes, eventually via production of antibodies binding the polypeptide or for characterising allergen extracts of house dust mites and storage mites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicants: ALK-ABELLÓ A/S, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Gitte Lund, Lars Harder Christensen, Thomas Stranzl, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 10308689
    Abstract: Dengue virus (DV) peptides, including T cell epitopes, structural and non-structural (NS) polypeptide sequences, subsequences and modifications thereof, nucleotide sequences encoding such peptides, and compositions including such peptides and encoding nucleotide sequences, and cells expressing such peptides, are provided. Such DV peptides, nucleotide sequences and compositions, can be used to elicit, stimulate, induce, promote, increase, enhance or activate an anti-DV CD8+ T cell response or an anti-DV CD4+ T cell response. Such peptides, nucleotide sequences and compositions can also be used for and in methods of vaccination/immunization of a subject against Dengue virus (DV) (e.g., to provide protection against DV infection and/or pathology), and for treatment of a subject in need thereof, for example, treatment of the subject for a Dengue virus (DV) infection or pathology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sujan Shresta, Lauren Yauch, Alessandro Sette, Daniela Weiskopf
  • Patent number: 10106619
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods that employ OX40 (CD134), a TNFR superfamily protein, agonists. The invention includes among other things administering an OX40 agonist alone or in combination with a viral antigen, or live or attenuated virus, to treat a viral infection, or for vaccination or immunization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
    Inventors: Michael Croft, Shahram Salek-Ardakani, Magdalini Moutaftsi, Alessandro Sette, Carl F. Ware
  • Patent number: 10059751
    Abstract: The invention relates to combinations of peptides or variants thereof derived from a portion of an amino sequence of a house dust mite allergen, e.g. the allergens Der p 1, Der f 1, Der p 2 and/or Der f 2. Such peptides comprise at least one T cell epitope and a significant high number of patients in a worldwide population will have HLA alleles with the potential to bind the peptides of the peptide combinations. The invention also relates to the use of such peptide combinations in relieving an immune response caused by a dust mite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: ALK-ABELLÓ A/S, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOGY
    Inventors: Claus Lundegaard, Lars Harder Christensen, Peter Adler Wurtzen, Alessandro Sette, John Sidney, Gitte Lund, Peter Sejer Andersen