Patents by Inventor Andrea Lucille Bell

Andrea Lucille Bell 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).

  • Photosensitisers
    Patent number: 7276494
    Abstract: A compound for use as a photosensitiser in PDT, in photochemical internalisation in the production of a cancer vaccine or in the diagnosis or detection of medical conditions, the compound having a photosensitising chromophoric system, a sulphonamido functionality and a carboxy functionality. The compounds used in the present invention are photosensitisers in PDT in vivo, and show phototoxic activity in vitro. The compounds are used to treat pre-cancerous conditions, cancer, ophthalmological disease, vascular problems, arteriosclerosis and restenosis and autoimmune diseases, skin diseases and other benign conditions, and for anti-microbial treatments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Photopharmica Limited
    Inventors: Stanley Beames Brown, Andrea Lucille Bell, John Griffiths, Jack Schofield
  • Photosensitisers
    Publication number: 20030180224
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a compound for use as a photosensitiser in PDT, in photochemical internalisation in the production of a cancer vaccine or in the diagnosis or detection of medical conditions, the compound having a photosensitising chromophoric system, a sulphonamido functionality and a carboxy functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Applicant: PHOTOPHARMICA LIMITED
    Inventors: Stanley Beames Brown, Andrea Lucille Bell, John Griffiths, Jack Schofield