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: 12202810
    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 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Paul S. Shapiro, Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr., Jeffrey D. Hasday, Steven Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20240150315
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to allosteric modulators of ?2-adrenoceptor, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and use thereof for the treatment of disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander D. MacKerell, Deepak Deshpande, Christopffer Lind, Sushrut D. Shah
  • Publication number: 20240132484
    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: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Frieman, Alexander D. Mackerell, JR., Stuart WESTON
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9943506
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for blocking the BCL6 BTB domain with small molecule, non-peptide compounds as disclosed and claimed herein. BCL6 is a transcriptional repressor of the BTB-POZ (brie a brae, tramtrack, broad complex/pox virus zincfinger) family of proteins. It is required for normal development of germinal center (GC) B-cells and is also the most commonly involvedoncogene in diffuse large B-celllymphomas (DLBCLs), and constitutive expression of BCL6 in GC B-cells causes DLBCL in mice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Cornell University, University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Ari Melnick, Leandro Carlos A. Cerchietti, Mariano G. Cardenas, Fengtian Xue, Alexander D. MacKerell
  • Patent number: 9757375
    Abstract: Methods for treating cancer using compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases. Methods for using compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases to provide insights into the reaction mechanisms of human DNA ligases, for example to identify the human DNA ligase involved in different DNA repair pathways. Screening methods for compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Inventors: Alan E. Tomkinson, Helen Xi Chen, Barbara Dziegielewska, Alexander D. Mackerell, Shijun Zhong, Gerald M. Wilson
  • Patent number: 9701627
    Abstract: Compounds, and methods of using the same, are provided as therapies for the treatment leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 (LRRK2)-related disorders including, but not limited to, neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders, such as Parkinson's Disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Wanli Smith, Fengtian Xue, Alexander D MacKerell, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160267219
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for estimating the difference between binding free energies of molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander D. Mackerell, E. Prabhu Raman
  • Patent number: 9422302
    Abstract: An opioid narcotics used for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that primarily exert their analgesic effects through ? receptors. Although, traditional ? agonists can cause undesired side effects, including tolerance, addition of ? antagonists can attenuate said side effects. The present invention includes 4a,9-dihydroxy-7a-(hydroxymethyl)-3-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-1H-4,12-methanobenzofuro[3,2-e]isoquinolin-7(7aH)-one (UMB 425) a 5,14-bridged morphinan-based orvinol precursor, along with analogs of morphine, dihydromorphine, hydromorphone, codeine, dihydrocodeine, hydrocodone and ethylmorphine. Although UMB 425 lacks ?-specific motifs, conformationally sampled pharmacophore models for ? and ? receptors predict it to have efficacy similar to morphine at ? receptors and similar to naltrexone at ? receptors, due to the compound sampling conformations in which the hydroxyl moiety interacts with the receptors similar to orvinols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Andrew Coop, Alexander D. Mackerell, Rae Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20160166549
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for blocking the BCL6 BTB domain with small molecule, non-peptide compounds as disclosed and claimed herein. BCL6 is a transcriptional repressor of the BTB-POZ (brie a brae, tramtrack, broad complex/pox virus zincfinger) family of proteins. It is required for normal development of germinal center (GC) B-cells and is also the most commonly involvedoncogene in diffuse large B-celllymphomas (DLBCLs), and constitutive expression of BCL6 in GC B-cells causes DLBCL in mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Ari Melnick, Leandro Carlos A. Cerchietti, Mariano G. Cardenas, Fengtian Xue, Alexander D. MacKerell