Patents by Inventor Benjamin Ebert

Benjamin Ebert 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: 20230151342
    Abstract: The disclosure includes compositions comprising synthetic zinc finger degrons, and their use with non-naturally occurring or engineered programmable nucleases. Compositions specifically targeting the engineered programmable nucleases for control of gene editing outcomes, and compositions, systems and method of use are further detailed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Amit CHOUDHARY, Donghyun LIM, Sreekanth VEDAGOPURAM, Benjamin EBERT, Max JAN
  • Publication number: 20220362228
    Abstract: The present invention features methods for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy, methods for treating or preventing a cancer in a subject, methods for treating clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential in a subject, and methods of identifying resistance or sensitivity to chemotherapy in a subject. In some embodiments, the methods contain the step of administering an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of a Protein phosphatase 1D (PPM1D) polypeptide or polynucleotide. The present invention also features compositions for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: The Brigham And Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Josephine KAHN, Siddhartha JAISWAL, Benjamin EBERT
  • Publication number: 20220281931
    Abstract: The invention features methods for characterizing a cancer as sensitive or resistant to Bcl6 therapies, as well as compositions and methods for inducing the degradation or polymerization of a polypeptide of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts
    Inventors: Benjamin EBERT, Mikolaj SLABICKI, Eric S. FISCHER, Hojong YOON, Jonas KOEPPEL
  • Patent number: 11426405
    Abstract: The methods described herein include methods for the treatment of subjects who have Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) or a Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), e.g., polycythaemia vera (PV) or essential thrombocythaemia (ET), using inhibitors of JAK-STAT signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Children's Medical Center Corporation
    Inventors: Rob Sellar, Benjamin Ebert, Ofir Wolach, Kimberly Martinod, Denisa Wagner
  • Patent number: 11304938
    Abstract: The present invention features methods for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy, methods for treating or preventing a cancer in a subject, methods for treating clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential in a subject, and methods of identifying resistance or sensitivity to chemotherapy in a subject. In some embodiments, the methods contain the step of administering an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of a Protein phosphatase 1D (PPM1D) polypeptide or polynucleotide. The present invention also features compositions for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: Josephine Kahn, Siddhartha Jaiswal, Benjamin Ebert
  • Patent number: 11015223
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for predicting a response of a subject with myelodysplastic syndrome to treatment with a hypomethylating agent, for example using a sample obtained from the subject. The methods can be used to select a subject for treatment with a hypomethylating agent, and/or measure a subject's response to therapy and/or disease progression/regression. The methods include detecting, in a nucleic acid sample obtained from a subject, one or more mutations of any one or more genes selected from Table 3a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAT . INC
    Inventors: Rafael Bejar, Benjamin Ebert, Donna Neuberg, Kristen Stevenson
  • Publication number: 20210137902
    Abstract: The present invention features methods for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy, methods for treating or preventing a cancer in a subject, methods for treating clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential in a subject, and methods of identifying resistance or sensitivity to chemotherapy in a subject. In some embodiments, the methods contain the step of administering an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of a Protein phosphatase 1D (PPM1D) polypeptide or polynucleotide. The present invention also features compositions for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: JOSEPHINE KAHN, SIDDHARTHA JAISWAL, BENJAMIN EBERT
  • Publication number: 20210040166
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to therapeutic methods and clinically useful molecular switches, for which activity or degradation of a switch-presenting polypeptide can be precisely induced via administration or withdrawal of an FDA-approved drug. Certain aspects of the disclosure relate to an engineered drug-inducible heterodimeric system including a first polypeptide presenting a CRBN polypeptide disrupted for or lacking a DDB1-interacting domain and a second polypeptide presenting a CRBN polypeptide substrate, where binding between the CRBN polypeptide and the CRBN polypeptide substrate are inducible via administration of an FDA-approved thalidomide analog immunomodulatory drug (IMiD). Another aspect of the disclosure relates to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that presents a minimal fragment of the CRBN polypeptide substrate IKZF3 capable of triggering proteasomal degradation of CAR upon administration of an FDA-approved IMiD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Max Jan, Quinlan L. Sievers, Benjamin Ebert, Marcela Maus
  • Publication number: 20200131576
    Abstract: The application presently discloses a method of treating atherosclerosis in a human subject comprising administering an effective amount of an IL-8 inhibitor, an IL-6 inhibitor, and/or an IL-1? inhibitor, wherein the subject has a TET2 and/or DNMT3A mutation thereby treating atherosclerosis. It also discloses a method for treating atherosclerosis in a human subject comprising sequencing at least a part of a genome comprising TET2 and/or DNMT3A of one or more cells in a blood sample of the subject; determining from the sequencing whether the subject has one or more mutations in TET2 and/or DNMT3A, if it is determined that the subject has at least one TET2 and/or DNMT3A mutation, administering an IL-8 inhibitor, an IL-6 inhibitor, and/or an IL-1? inhibitor to a subject to the subject thereby treating atherosclerosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Jaiswal Siddhartha, Sekar Kathiresan, Benjamin Ebert
  • Publication number: 20190167680
    Abstract: The methods described herein include methods for the treatment of subjects who have Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) or a Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), e.g., polycythaemia vera (PV) or essential thrombocythaemia (ET), using inhibitors of JAK-STAT signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Rob Sellar, Benjamin Ebert, Ofir Wolach, Kim Martinod, Denisa Wagner
  • Publication number: 20160083802
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for predicting a response of a subject with myelodysplastic syndrome to treatment with a hypomethylating agent, for example using a sample obtained from the subject. The methods can be used to select a subject for treatment with a hypomethylating agent, and/or measure a subject's response to therapy and/or disease progression/regression. The methods include detecting, in a nucleic acid sample obtained from a subject, one or more mutations of any one or more genes selected from Table 3a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Rafael BEJAR, Benjamin EBERT, Donna NEUBERG, Kristen STEVENSON
  • Patent number: 9164094
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression profiles of HIV-specific T-cells and their methods of use, including but not limited to treatment of HIV, increasing T-cell function and/or survival in HIV infected subjects, monitoring HIV disease progression and classifying HIV infected subjects as controllers or chronic progressors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: W. Nicholas Haining, Benjamin Ebert, Bruce Walker
  • Patent number: 8828965
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating certain blood related disorders, in particular, thrombocytopenia and anemia comprising increasing miR-150 expression or inhibiting miR-150 in progenitor cells respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Shangqin Guo, Benjamin Ebert, David Scadden, Todd Golub
  • Publication number: 20140050707
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating certain blood related disorders, in particular, thrombocytopenia and anemia comprising increasing miR-150 expression or inhibiting miR-150 in progenitor cells respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Shangqin Guo, Benjamin Ebert, David Scadden, Todd Golub
  • Patent number: 8530443
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating certain blood related disorders, in particular, thrombocytopenia and anemia comprising increasing miR-150 expression or inhibiting miR-150 in progenitor cells respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Shangqin Guo, Benjamin Ebert, David Scadden, Todd Golub
  • Publication number: 20130039895
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating certain blood related disorders, in particular, thrombocytopenia and anemia comprising increasing miR-150 expression or inhibiting miR-150 in progenitor cells respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Shangqin Guo, Benjamin Ebert, David Scadden, Todd Golub
  • Publication number: 20130005792
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression profiles of HIV-specific T-cells and their methods of use, including but not limited to treatment of HIV, increasing T-cell function and/or survival in HIV infected subjects, monitoring HIV disease progression and classifying HIV infected subjects as controllers or chronic progressors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The General Hospital Corporation, Brigham & Women's Hospital
    Inventors: W. N. Haining, Benjamin Ebert, Bruce Walker
  • Publication number: 20090202493
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating certain blood related disorders, in particular, thrombocytopenia and anemia comprising increasing miR-150 expression or inhibiting miR-150 in progenitor cells respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Shangqin Guo, Benjamin Ebert, David Scadden, Todd Golub