Patents by Inventor Alistair Sim

Alistair Sim 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).

  • PROTEIN BIOMARKERS FOR OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAYS DISEASES
    Publication number: 20130183684
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for the diagnosis of obstructive airways diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and the discrimination between such diseases based on the expression profiles of biomarker proteins and combinations of biomarker proteins. In particular embodiments the biomarker proteins are selected from ceruloplasmin, haptoglobin, hemopexin, -2-macroglobulin, prothrombin, immunoglobulin A and complement factor H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: CRC FOR ASTHMA AND AIRWAYS LTD
    Inventors: Peter Gibson, Lisa Wood, Nikki Verrills, Alistair Sim
  • Anhydride modified cantharidin analogues useful in the treatment of cancer
    Publication number: 20060030616
    Abstract: Anhydride modified cantharidin analogues useful in the treatment of certain forms of cancer also methods for the screening for anti-cancer activity of these analogues and/or their ability to sensitise cancer cells to cancer treatment. The modified cantharidin analogues have structure (I) or (II), wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are H, aryl or alkyl; X is O, N or S; Y is O, S, NH, NR; R is alkyl or aryl; A and B are H or CH3; W and Z are CHOH or C?O. These compounds inhibit protein phosphatase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Adam McCluskey, Jennette Sakoff, Stephen Ackland, Alistair Sim