Patents by Inventor Athanasios Dousis

Athanasios Dousis 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: 20250250551
    Abstract: RNA polymerase variants enable high efficiency transcription of RNA. In Yield some embodiments, the RNA polymerase variants enable RNA transcription with high capping efficiency and/or low levels of double-stranded RNA contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Margaret Franklin, Athanasios Dousis
  • Publication number: 20250197908
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Elissa Hobert
  • Publication number: 20250170070
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of glycogen storage disease type 1a, (GSD-Ia), and related symptoms such as hypoglycemia. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase or G6PC), and functional fragments and variants thereof mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of G6PC expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further increase the glucose production, and reduce the abnormal accumulation of glycogen and/or glucose-6-phosphate associated with GSD-Ia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Paolo G. V. Martini, Athanasios Dousis, Vladimir Presnyak, Jingsong Cao
  • Publication number: 20250171751
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides RNA polymerase variants for high efficiency transcription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Amy E. Rabideau, Margaret Franklin, Kevin Smith, Michelle Lynn Hall
  • Patent number: 12195778
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Elissa Hobert
  • Patent number: 12180518
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides RNA polymerase variants for high efficiency transcription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Amy E. Rabideau, Margaret Franklin, Kevin Smith, Michelle Lynn Hall
  • Patent number: 12103955
    Abstract: The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of fibrosis and/or cardiovascular disease. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human relaxin, isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising relaxin. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of relaxin expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient relaxin activity in subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry Ticho, Nadege Briancon-Eris, Zhinan Xia, Athanasios Dousis, Seymour de Picciotto, Vladimir Presnyak, Stephen Hoge, Iain Mcfadyen, Kerry Benenato, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20240189449
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD). mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC). mRNA therapies of the disclosure increase and/or restore deficient levels of OTC expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the disclosure further decrease levels of toxic ammonia associated with deficient OTC activity in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Alicia Anne Bicknell, Mark Cornebise, Athanasios Dousis, Andrew Jacob Giessel, Edward Hennessy, Ruchi Jain, Caroline Köhrer, Stuart Spencer Licht, Kanchana Ravichandran, David Reid
  • Publication number: 20240102066
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Elissa Hobert
  • Patent number: 11939601
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of hyperphenylalaninemias such as phenylketonuria (PKU). mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), functional fragments thereof (e.g., those comprising the catalytic domain or the catalytic domain and the tetramerization domains), and fusion proteins comprising PAH. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of PAH expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease abnormal accumulation of phenylalanine associated with deficient PAH activity in subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Raj Rajendran, Patrick Finn, Paolo G. V. Martini, Ding An, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran
  • Patent number: 11767548
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Elissa Hobert
  • Publication number: 20230235298
    Abstract: Variant phenylalanine hydroxylase polypeptides having substitutions at selected amino acid residues are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of using variant phenylalanine hydroxylase polypeptides, or polynucleotides encoding variant phenylalanine hydroxylase polypeptides, to treat disorders such as phenylketonuria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Lisa M. Rice, Patrick Finn, Athanasios Dousis
  • Publication number: 20230104080
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides RNA polymerase variants for high efficiency transcription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Amy E. Rabideau, Margaret Franklin, Kevin Smith, Michelle Lynn Hall
  • Publication number: 20230009009
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of glycogen storage disease type 1a, (GSD-Ia), and related symptoms such as hypoglycemia. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase or G6PC), and functional fragments and variants thereof. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of G6PC expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further increase the glucose production, and reduce the abnormal accumulation of glycogen and/or glucose-6-phosphate associated with GSD-Ia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Paolo G. V. Martini, Athanasios Dousis, Vladimir Presnyak, Jingsong Cao
  • Patent number: 11485960
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides RNA polymerase variants for high efficiency transcription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Amy E. Rabideau, Margaret Franklin, Kevin Smith, Michelle Lynn Hall
  • Publication number: 20210395792
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Elissa Hobert
  • Publication number: 20210309976
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides RNA polymerase variants for high efficiency transcription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Amy E. Rabideau, Margaret Franklin, Kevin Smith
  • Patent number: 11066686
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Rabideau, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran, Elissa Hobert
  • Publication number: 20210217484
    Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing a variant of a target protein. The techniques may include accessing a latent variable statistical model (LVSM) configured to generate output indicating one or more biological sequences corresponding to one or more variants of the target protein and using the LVSM to generate a first output indicating a first biological sequence associated with a first variant of the target protein. The techniques further include manufacturing, using the first biological sequence, a first biological molecule to produce the first variant of the target protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Giessel, Athanasios Dousis, Iain McFadyen
  • Publication number: 20210040456
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of hyperphenylalaninemias such as phenylketonuria (PKU). mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), functional fragments thereof (e.g., those comprising the catalytic domain or the catalytic domain and the tetramerization domains), and fusion proteins comprising PAH. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of PAH expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease abnormal accumulation of phenylalanine associated with deficient PAH activity in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Raj Rajendran, Patrick Finn, Paolo G.V. Martini, Ding An, Athanasios Dousis, Kanchana Ravichandran