Patents by Inventor Alexander D. MacKerell

Alexander D. MacKerell 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: 11911392
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday
  • Patent number: 11911393
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Baltimore, The United States of America as represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday
  • Publication number: 20230312498
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Paul S. SHAPIRO, Alexander D. MACKERELL, Jeffrey D. HASDAY, Steven FLETCHER
  • Patent number: 11718595
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday, Steven Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20230201211
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Paul S. SHAPIRO, Alexander D. MACKERELL, JR., Jeffrey D. HASDAY
  • Patent number: 11634381
    Abstract: Provide herein are compounds with a general chemical structure of: Substituents R1 and R2 independently are H, Cl, F, Br, CH3, CF3, SH, —N(C1-3alkyl)2, —NHC(O)C1-3alkyl, or —NHC(O)C5-7cycloalkyl, substituent R3 is H or C1-3 alkyl and R4 is a bridged cycloalkene such as a bridged cyclohexene or a bridge-substituted cyclohexene. The compounds are therapeutics to treat a cancer, such as breast cancer, or metastatic cancers, to inhibit RUNX2 activity, such as protein expression, in a cancer cell and to increase survival of a subject with breast cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Baltimore, The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Antonino Passaniti, Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11510908
    Abstract: Provided herein are protein translation inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that bind to an RNA Recognition motif in heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein A18 to inhibit binding to mRNA transcripts thereby inhibiting protein synthesis. Also provided is a method for treating a cancer by administering a pharmaceutically acceptable amounts of at least one of the protein translation inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: France Carrier, Alexander D. MacKerell, David J. Weber, Wenbo Yu
  • Publication number: 20220331329
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Paul S. SHAPIRO, Alexander D. MACKERELL, JR., Jeffrey D. HASDAY
  • Publication number: 20220259180
    Abstract: Compounds and methods of using the same for treating conditions alleviated by SKI complex inhibition, viral replication inhibition, or interferon signaling inducement are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew FRIEMAN, Stuart WESTON, Alexander D. MACKERELL
  • Patent number: 11357781
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Baltimore, The United States of America as represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday
  • Publication number: 20210317097
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Paul S. SHAPIRO, Alexander D. MACKERELL, JR., Jeffrey D. HASDAY, Steven FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20210267987
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Paul S. SHAPIRO, Alexander D. MACKERELL, JR., Jeffrey D. HASDAY
  • Patent number: 11078171
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday, Steven Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20200368208
    Abstract: Provided herein are protein translation inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that bind to an RNA Recognition motif in heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein A18 to inhibit binding to mRNA transcripts thereby inhibiting protein synthesis. Also provided is a method for treating a cancer by administering a pharmaceutically acceptable amounts of at least one of the protein translation inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: University of Baltimore, Maryland
    Inventors: France Carrier, Alexander D. MacKerell, David J. Weber, Wenbo Yu
  • Publication number: 20200331874
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Paul S. SHAPIRO, Alexander D. MACKERELL, JR., Jeffrey D. HASDAY, Steven FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20190263751
    Abstract: Provide herein are compounds with a general chemical structure of: Substituents R1 and R2 independently are H, Cl, F, Br, CH3, CF3, SH, —N(C1-3alkyl)2, —NHC(O)C1-3alkyl, or —NHC(O)C5-7cycloalkyl, substituent R3 is H or C1-3 alkyl and R4 is a bridged cycloalkene such as a bridged cyclohexene or a bridge-substituted cyclohexene. The compounds are therapeutics to treat a cancer, such as breast cancer, or metastatic cancers, to inhibit RUNX2 activity, such as protein expression, in a cancer cell and to increase survival of a subject with breast cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicants: University of Maryland, Baltimore, The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Antonino Passaniti, Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190151324
    Abstract: Compounds that inhibit p38? MAPK protein, and methods of using the same, are provided for treating or preventing diseases such as cancer or inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday
  • Publication number: 20180373846
    Abstract: Provided are computer implemented methods for organic solute sampling in aqueous and heterogeneous environments using oscillating chemical potentials in Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The methods involve GCMC of both the solutes and water, with the excess chemical potential (?ex) of both the solute and the water oscillated to attain their target concentrations in the simulation system. In some example methods, the ?ex of the water and solutes over the GCMC iterations are varied to improve solute exchange probabilities and the spatial distributions of the solutes and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations may be performed in addition to GCMC to improve sampling of spatial distributions. These methods may be used to determine the hydration free energy (HFE) of the individual or multiple solutes when targeting in aqueous solutions. Also included are methods of driving solute sampling in and around macromolecules, including proteins, in aqueous environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Alexander D. MACKERELL, Jr., E. Prabhu RAMAN, Sirish Kaushik LAKKARAJU
  • Publication number: 20180300447
    Abstract: The invention describes an explicit solvent all-atom molecular dynamics methodology (SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation) that uses small aliphatic and aromatic molecules plus water molecules to map the affinity pattern of a large molecule for hydrophobic groups, aromatic groups, hydrogen bond donors, and hydrogen bond acceptors. By simultaneously incorporating ligands representative of all these functionalities, the method is an in silico free energy-based competition assay that generates three-dimensional probability maps of fragment binding (FragMaps) indicating favorable fragment:large molecule interactions. The FragMaps may be used to qualitatively inform the design of small-molecule ligands or as scoring grids for high-throughput in silico docking that incorporates both an atomic-level description of solvation and the large molecule's flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Alexander D. MACKERELL, JR., Olgun GUVENCH
  • Patent number: 10002228
    Abstract: The invention describes an explicit solvent all-atom molecular dynamics methodology (SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation) that uses small aliphatic and aromatic molecules plus water molecules to map the affinity pattern of a large molecule for hydrophobic groups, aromatic groups, hydrogen bond donors, and hydrogen bond acceptors. By simultaneously incorporating ligands representative of all these functionalities, the method is an in silico free energy-based competition assay that generates three-dimensional probability maps of fragment binding (FragMaps) indicating favorable fragment:large molecule interactions. The FragMaps may be used to qualitatively inform the design of small-molecule ligands or as scoring grids for high-throughput in silico docking that incorporates both an atomic-level description of solvation and the large molecule's flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr., Olgun Guvench