Patents by Inventor Brian Edward Vash

Brian Edward Vash 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: 20170368169
    Abstract: Multispecific molecules that include i) a tumor-targeting moiety; and one, two or all of: (ii) an immune cell engager (e.g., chosen from an NK cell engager, a T cell engager, a B cell engager, a dendritic cell engager, or a macrophage cell engager); (iii) a cytokine molecule; and/or (iv) a stromal modifying moiety are disclosed. Additionally disclosed are nucleic acids encoding the same, methods of producing the aforesaid molecules, and methods of treating a cancer using the aforesaid molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash
  • Publication number: 20170204149
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to fusion polypeptides comprising serum albumin or a functional variant thereof and GDF15 protein or a functional variant thereof and to pharmaceutical compositions that contain the fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids that encode the fusion polypeptides, methods of making the polypeptides and use of the polypeptides to decreasing appetite, decreasing body weight and treating metabolic diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Rajiv CHOPRA, Norio HAMAMATSU, Ryan Scott STREEPER, Brian Edward VASH
  • Patent number: 9512199
    Abstract: The here described invention discloses a combination of a top and bottom loop binder library using the CD and the FG loops of a number of FnIII domains (FnIII) (e.g., FnIII7, FnIII10 and FnIII14) together with the surface exposed residues of the beta-sheet. The invention also pertains to a method of forming a library of FnIII domain polypeptides useful in screening for the presence of one or more polypeptides having a selected binding or enzymatic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: NOVARTIS AG, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash, Shohei Koide, John Bernard Wojcik, Akiko Koide, Ryan Nicholas Gilbreth
  • Publication number: 20160311907
    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 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    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
  • Patent number: 9139825
    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: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash
  • Publication number: 20140057807
    Abstract: The here described invention discloses a combination of a top and bottom loop binder library using the CD and the FG loops of a number of FnIII domains (FnIII) (e.g., FnIII7, FnIII10 and FnIII14) together with the surface exposed residues of the beta-sheet. The invention also pertains to a method of forming a library of FnIII domain polypeptides useful in screening for the presence of one or more polypeptides having a selected binding or enzymatic activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicants: The University of Chicago, Novartis AG
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash, Shohei Koide, John Bernard Wojcik, Akiko Koide, Ryan Nicholas Gilbreth
  • Publication number: 20120208704
    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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Andreas Loew, Brian Edward Vash