Patents by Inventor Antonio Tarragona-Fiol

Antonio Tarragona-Fiol 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: 5985281
    Abstract: A two component system for therapeutic treatment of a host, having a first component comprising a targeting moiety capable of binding with a tumour associated antigen, linked to a mutated enzyme capable of converting a prodrug into an antineoplastic drug, and a second component comprising a prodrug convertible under the influence of the mutated enzyme to the antineoplastic drug. The mutated enzyme is a mutated form of a natural host enzyme which recognizes its natural substrate by an ion pair interaction with the substrate, wherein the mutated enzyme and prodrug have structures such that the polarity of the mutated enzyme/prodrug ion pair interaction is reversed relative to the natural host enzyme/natural substrate ion pair interaction. The first component is substantially non-immunogenic in the host and the prodrug second component is not significantly convertible into antineoplastic drug in the host by natural unmutated host enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Christopher John Taylorson, Hendrikus Johannes Eggelte, Antonio Tarragona-Fiol, Brian Robert Rabin, Francis Thomas Boyle, John Frederick Hennam, David Charles Blakey, Peter Robert Marsham, David William Heaton, David Huw Davies, Anthony Michael Slater, Laurent Francois Andre Hennequin