Patents by Inventor Bjoern Peters

Bjoern Peters 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: 20230399402
    Abstract: The present invention includes engineered T cell receptor (TCR) proteins, nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, methods of treating cancer, and chimeric antigen receptor expressing T cell (CAR-T) comprising an alpha chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, or 23 and/or a beta chain CDR3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, or 24, wherein the TCR is specific for a KRAS G12>V mutation peptide, antigen-MHC binding portions, and full length portions of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen P. Schoenberger, Bjoern Peters, Pandurangan Vijayanand, Zeynep Kosalglu-Yalcin, Aaron Miller, Ezra Cohen
  • Publication number: 20230293630
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for detecting the presence of: a coronavirus or an immune response to a coronavirus infection including T cells responsive to one or more coronavirus peptides or proteins comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: one or more amino acid sequences selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants or derivatives; a fusion protein comprising one or more amino acid sequences selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126; a pool of peptides or proteins selected from the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126; or a polynucleotide that encodes one or more peptides or proteins, comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to 1126, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants or derivatives. The invention further provides vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, and kits, comprising such proteins or peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Shane Crotty, Alba Grifoni, Daniela Weiskopf, Bjoern Peters, John Sidney
  • Patent number: 11505581
    Abstract: The specificity of CD4+ TH responses of German cockroach (Bla g) antigens, and whether differences exist in magnitude or functionality as a function of disease severity, is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel German cockroach allergens and epitopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 11421006
    Abstract: The invention provides Cockroach proteins, peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses and medicaments of such proteins, peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof. Such methods, uses and medicaments include modulating an immune response, protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen (e.g., Cockroach allergen) in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Bjoern Peters, Jason Greenbaum
  • Patent number: 11013781
    Abstract: The invention relates to combinations of peptides derived from a portion of an amino sequence of a grass pollen allergen, e.g. the allergens Phl p 1, Phl p 2, Phl p 3, Phl p 4 and/or Phl p 5, or a peptide variant thereof. Such peptides comprise at least one T cell epitope mid a high number of patients in a worldwide population will have HLA Class II alleles with the potential to bind the peptides of the peptide combinations. The invention also relates to the use of such peptide combinations in relieving an immune response caused by grass pollen species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: ALK-ABELLÓ AS, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Claus Lundegaard, Shashank Gupta, Bjoern Peters, Susanne Sønderkær, Jens Brimnes, Peter Adler Würtzen, Helene Henmar, Thomas Christian Mygind, Lise Lund Mærkedahl, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 10918713
    Abstract: The invention relates to common allergen proteins and peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses of common allergen proteins and peptides. Methods include, for example, modulating an immune response; protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease; and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Carla Oseroff, Howard Grey, Bjoern Peters
  • Publication number: 20200216492
    Abstract: Presented herein, in certain embodiments, are compositions comprising synthetic polypeptides that specifically bind to MHC Class I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk ZAJONC, Bjoern PETERS, Soumya Govinda REMESH, Ge YING
  • Patent number: 10703784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to M. tuberculosis proteins and peptides, and subsequences, portions or modifications thereof and methods and compounds comprising the same for eliciting, stimulating, inducing, promoting, increasing, or enhancing an anti-M. tuberculosis immune response in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Cecilia Arlehamm, Bjoern Peters, Howard Grey, John Sidney
  • Publication number: 20200123213
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel immunogenic polypeptides identified in house dust mites and storage mites, which have the potential to be used in allergy immunotherapy, for diagnostic purposes, eventually via production of antibodies binding the polypeptide or for characterising allergen extracts of house dust mites and storage mites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicants: ALK-ABELLÓ A/S, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Gitte Lund, Lars Harder Christensen, Thomas Stranzl, Alessandro Sette
  • Publication number: 20200095296
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for assessing whether a subject is at risk of developing a neurological disorder, diagnosing or confirming whether a subject is afflicted with a neurological disorder, assessing a neurological disorder is developing in a subject who has been identified as being at risk of developing the neurological disorder, assessing whether a subject afflicted with a neurological disorder is likely to benefit iron a therapy, assessing whether a subject afflicted with a neurological disorder has benefited from a therapy, treating a subject afflicted with a neurological disorder, and prophylactically treating a subject who has been identified as being at risk, of developing a neurological disorder. The present invention also provides epitopes, compounds and compositions relating to these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicants: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY, THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC.
    Inventors: David Sulzer, Alessandro Sette, Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn, John Pham, Bjoern Peters
  • Patent number: 10556936
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel immunogenic polypeptides identified in house dust mites and storage mites, which have the potential to be used in allergy immunotherapy, for diagnostic purposes, eventually via production of antibodies binding the polypeptide or for characterising allergen extracts of house dust mites and storage mites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: ALK ABELLÓ, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Gitte Lund, Lars Harder Christensen, Thomas Stranzl, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 10428124
    Abstract: The invention relates to Timothy Grass proteins and peptides, subsequences, portions, homologs, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses of Timothy Grass proteins and peptides. Methods include, for example, modulating an immune response; protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease; and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Veronique Schulten, Howard Grey, Bjoern Peters, Jason Greenbaum
  • Patent number: 10406218
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel targets for immune response modulation, treatment of tuberculosis infection and epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or subsequences, portions or modifications thereof, and methods and compounds for treatment and prevention of tuberculosis infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Bjoern Peters, Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn, Greg Seumois, Pandurangan Vijayanand, Sonia Sharma
  • Publication number: 20190202875
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel immunogenic polypeptides identified in house dust mites and storage mites, which have the potential to be used in allergy immunotherapy, for diagnostic purposes, eventually via production of antibodies binding the polypeptide or for characterising allergen extracts of house dust mites and storage mites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicants: ALK-ABELLÓ A/S, LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bjoern Peters, Gitte Lund, Lars Harder Christensen, Thomas Stranzl, Alessandro Sette
  • Patent number: 10111686
    Abstract: It is provided a device for the transcutaneous implantation of an epicardial pacemaker electrode, which is arranged in a tubular, flexible implantation catheter insertable into the pericardial space. The distal end area of the electrode is connected to a shape-variable element for aligning the electrode, in particular for adjusting the implantation angle thereof, and for stabilizing, in particular laterally stabilizing, the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN
    Inventors: Marco Bartosch, Heiner Peters, Boris Schmitt, Björn Peters
  • Publication number: 20180291071
    Abstract: The specificity of CD4+ TH responses of German cockroach (Bla g) antigens, and whether differences exist in magnitude or functionality as a function of disease severity, is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel German cockroach allergens and epitopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
    Inventors: Bjoern PETERS, Alessandro SETTE
  • Publication number: 20180207228
    Abstract: The invention relates to combinations of peptides derived from a portion of an amino sequence of a grass pollen allergen, e.g. the allergens Phl p 1, Phl p 2, Phl p 3, Phl p 4 and/or Phl p 5, or a peptide variant thereof. Such peptides comprise at least one T cell epitope mid a high number of patients in a worldwide population will have HLA Class II alleles with the potential to bind the peptides of the peptide combinations. The invention also relates to the use of such peptide combinations in relieving an immune response caused by grass pollen species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicants: ALK-Abelló A/S
    Inventors: Claus Lundegaard, Shashank Gupta, Bjoern Peters, Susanne Sønderkær, Jens Brimnes, Peter Adler Würtzen, Helene Henmar, Thomas Christian Mygind, Lise Lund Mærkedahl
  • Publication number: 20180078637
    Abstract: The invention relates to common allergen proteins and peptides, subsequences, portions, homologues, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses of common allergen proteins and peptides. Methods include, for example, modulating an immune response; protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease; and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Carla Oseroff, Howard Grey, Bjoern Peters
  • Publication number: 20170028049
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel targets for immune response modulation, treatment of tuberculosis infection and epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or subsequences, portions or modifications thereof, and methods and compounds for treatment and prevention of tuberculosis infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Alessandro Sette, Bjoern Peters, Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn, Greg Seumois, Pandurangan Vijayanand
  • Publication number: 20170000523
    Abstract: It is provided a device for the transcutaneous implantation of an epicardial pacemaker electrode, which is arranged in a tubular, flexible implantation catheter insertable into the pericardial space. The distal end area of the electrode is connected to a shape-variable element for aligning the electrode, in particular for adjusting the implantation angle thereof, and for stabilizing, in particular laterally stabilizing, the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN
    Inventors: Marco BARTOSCH, Heiner PETERS, Boris SCHMITT, Björn PETERS