Patents by Inventor Andreas Loew

Andreas Loew 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: 20200291089
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel multifunctional, e.g., bifunctional, or trifunctional, molecules (e.g., fusion polypeptides or nucleic acids) that include a trimeric ligand, and optionally, an immunoglobulin constant domain, as well as methods of making and using the multifunctional molecules, e.g., for treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash, Stephanie J. Maiocco
  • Publication number: 20200283729
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of a cancer associated antigen as described herein. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to a cancer associated antigen as described herein, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the CARs of the present invention. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises an antigen binding domain that binds to a cancer associated antigen as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Michael C. Milone, Daniel J. Powell, JR., Yangbing Zhao
  • Patent number: 10738290
    Abstract: The present invention provides RNA-guided gene editing systems and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Anette Huebner
  • Patent number: 10703819
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of CD123. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to CD123, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant cells comprising the CD123 CAR. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified cell expressing a CAR that comprises a CD123 binding domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Novartis AG
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Saar Gill, David Jonathan Glass, Saad Kenderian, Andreas Loew, Joan Mannick, Michael Milone, Leon Murphy, David L. Porter, Marco Ruella, Yongqiang Wang, Qilong Wu, Jiquan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10669323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of dual function fusion proteins comprising fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) and Exenatide, Exendin-4, or GLP-1. Also disclosed are methods for treating metabolic, cardiovascular, and endocrine conditions related to glucose and/or lipid homeostasis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Brian R. Boettcher, Shari Lynn Caplan, Susan E. Cellitti, Douglas S. Daniels, Norio Hamamatsu, Bernhard Hubert Geierstanger, Stuart Licht, Andreas Loew, Stephen Craig Weldon
  • Patent number: 10640569
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of mesothelin. Also provided are a chimeric antigen receptor(CAR) specific to mesothelin, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the mesothelin CAR. Further provided are methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises a mesothelin binding domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Gregory Beatty, Boris Engels, Neeraja Idamakanti, Carl H. June, Andreas Loew, Huijuan Song, Qilong Wu
  • Publication number: 20200071417
    Abstract: Multispecific molecules targeting tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) or myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) and methods of using the same, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash, Stephanie J. Maiocco
  • Patent number: 10577417
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating the specificity and activity of immune effector cells for use in immunotherapy. In one embodiment, the invention provides a type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) wherein the CAR is termed a “NKR-CAR” which is a CAR design comprising a component of a receptor naturally found on natural killer (NK) cells. In one embodiment, the NK receptor includes but is not limited to a naturally occurring activating and inhibitory receptor of NK cells known as a killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Gregory Beatty, Boris Engels, Neeraja Idamakanti, Carl H. June, Andreas Loew, Michael C. Milone, Huijuan Song, Enxiu Wang, Qilong Wu
  • Publication number: 20190375815
    Abstract: The present invention features the use of chimeric CD3 proteins to modulate T cell Receptor (TCR) signaling. Specifically, the invention is based, in part, on the discovery that multiple chimeric CD3 proteins (e.g., CD3delta, CD3gamma, and CD3 epsilon) having all or most of their extracellular domain fused to more than one antigen binding domain can activate the TCR in the presence of one or more cognate antigens. The invention is further based on the observation that the above chimeric proteins can be potentiated through the inclusion of a co-stimulatory domain in the intracellular portion of the chimeric molecule. Thus, the preferred elements of the engineered signaling complexes of the invention include more than one antigen binding domain, an extracellular domain derived from one of the above CD3 proteins, and an intracellular co-stimulatory domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Boris Engels, Brian Walter Granda, Carla Guimaraes, Andreas Loew, Melissa Ramones
  • Publication number: 20190330356
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of EGFRvIII. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to EGFRvIII, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the anti-EGFRvIII CAR. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises an anti-EGFRvIII binding domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Laura Alexandra Johnson, Carl H. June, Andreas Loew, Marcela Maus, John Scholler, Hideho Okada
  • Publication number: 20190292238
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of CD19, e.g., by administering a recombinant T cell comprising the CD19 CAR as described herein, in combination with one or more B-cell inhibitors, e.g., inhibitors of one or more of CD10, CD20, CD22, CD34, CD123, FLT-3, ROR1, CD79b, CD179b, or CD79a. The disclosure additionally features novel antigen binding domains and CAR molecules directed to CD20 and CD22, and uses, e.g., as monotherapies or in combination therapies. The invention also provides kits and compositions described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Hans Bitter, Jennifer Mary Bordeaux, Barbara Brannetti, Jennifer Brogdon, Naveen Kumar Dakappagari, Saar Gill, Steven Highfill, Lu Huang, Carl H. June, Ju Young Kim, Ming Lei, Na Li, Andreas Loew, Elena Orlando, Marco Ruella, Thai Tran, Jimin Zhang, Li Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190263914
    Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to regulatable chimeric antigen receptors (RCARs), where the intracellular signaling or proliferation of the RCAR can be controlled to optimize the use of an RCAR-expressing cell to provide an immune response, are provided. For example, a RCAR can comprise a dimerization switch that, upon the presence of a dimerization molecule, can couple an intracellular signaling domain to an extracellular recognition element, e.g., an antigen binding domain, an inhibitory counter ligand binding domain, or costimulatory ECD domain. An RCAR can be engineered to include an appropriate antigen binding domain that is specific to a desired antigen target and used in the treatment of a disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Boris Engels, David Jonathan Glass, Brian Granda, John Hastewell, Andreas Loew, Joan Mannick, Michael C. Milone, Leon Murphy, William Raj Sellers, Huijuan Song, Brian Edward Vash, Jan Weiler, Qilong Wu, Li Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190218311
    Abstract: Multispecific, e.g., bispecific, antibody molecules that include a kappa light chain polypeptide and one lambda light chain polypeptide, and methods of making and using the multispecific antibody molecules, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash, Stephanie J. Maiocco
  • Patent number: 10308717
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of EGFRvIII. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to EGFRvIII, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the anti-EGFRvIII CAR. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises an anti-EGFRvIII binding domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh—of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Laura Alexandra Johnson, Carl H. June, Andreas Loew, Marcela Maus, John Scholler, Hideho Okada
  • Patent number: 10301616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of protein display libraries and library screening. In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides a three component system for display comprising a cell surface molecule, an adapter molecule and a display molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventor: Andreas Loew
  • Patent number: 10287354
    Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to regulatable chimeric antigen receptors (RCARs), where the intracellular signaling or proliferation of the RCAR can be controlled to optimize the use of an RCAR-expressing cell to provide an immune response, are provided. For example, a RCAR can comprise a dimerization switch that, upon the presence of a dimerization molecule, can couple an intracellular signaling domain to an extracellular recognition element, e.g., an antigen binding domain, an inhibitory counter ligand binding domain, or costimulatory ECD domain. An RCAR can be engineered to include an appropriate antigen binding domain that is specific to a desired antigen target and used in the treatment of a disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Boris Engels, David Jonathan Glass, Brian Granda, John Hastewell, Andreas Loew, Joan Mannick, Michael Milone, Leon Murphy, William Raj Sellers, Huijuan Song, Brian Edward Vash, Jan Weiler, Qilong Wu, Li Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190135940
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of CD19. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to CD19, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the CD19 CAR. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises a CD19 binding domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Carl H. June, Andreas Loew, Marcela Maus, John Scholler
  • Patent number: 10253313
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a natural-variant combinatorial library of fibronectin Type 3 domain (Fn3) polypeptides useful in screening for the presence of one or more polypeptides having a selected binding or enzymatic activity. The library polypeptides include (a) regions A, AB, B, C, CD, D, E, EF, F, and G having wildtype amino acid sequences of a selected native fibronectin Type 3 polypeptide or polypeptides, and (b) loop regions AB, CD, and EF having selected lengths (Bottom Loops). The Fn3 may also have loop regions BC, DE, and FG having wildtype amino acid sequences, having selected lengths, or mutagenized amino acid sequences (Top Loops).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Vash
  • Patent number: 10253086
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of CD19, e.g., by administering a recombinant T cell comprising the CD19 CAR as described herein, in combination with one or more B-cell inhibitors, e.g., inhibitors of one or more of CD10, CD20, CD22, CD34, CD123, FLT-3, ROR1, CD79b, CD179b, or CD79a. The disclosure additionally features novel antigen binding domains and CAR molecules directed to CD20 and CD22, and uses, e.g., as monotherapies or in combination therapies. The invention also provides kits and compositions described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Hans Bitter, Jennifer Mary Bordeaux, Barbara Brannetti, Jennifer Brogdon, Naveen Kumar Dakappagari, Saar Gill, Steven Highfill, Lu Huang, Carl H. June, Ju Young Kim, Ming Lei, Na Li, Andreas Loew, Elena Orlando, Marco Ruella, Thai Tran, Jimin Zhang, Li Zhou
  • Patent number: RE47860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to LRP6 constructs that bind to LRP6 receptor. The LRP6 constructs comprise at least one LRP6 binding moiety and a half-life extender molecule such that the LRP6 construct inhibit the Wnt signaling pathway without potentiation of the Wnt signal. The LRP6 constructs also have an increased half-life to provide more time for the therapeutic benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: David Jenkins, Ming Lei, Andreas Loew, Li Zhou