Patents by Inventor Carlos F. Barbas

Carlos F. Barbas 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: 8557243
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Patent number: 8518927
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for chemically programmed vaccination. Methods include inducing a covalent-binding polyclonal antibody response in a subject and programming the polyclonal response with a targeting compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20130195860
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) for targeting the antibodies to specific sites. The use of the antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also provided in the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Patent number: 8454960
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20120329067
    Abstract: Provided herein are zinc linger nucleases having altered, arid in particular, improved catalytic activity and methods of generating such nucleases. Accordingly, there are provided methods for identifying improved catalytic activity of a ZFN by expressing a mutated zinc finger nuclease in a cell containing a reporter construct with a toxic gene, and a zinc finger nuclease cleavage site that is recognized by the ZFN. Survival of the cell is positively correlated with catalytic activity of the ZFN; thus, libraries of mutated ZFKs may be selected for altered catalytic activity based on relative survival rates, Methods of using identified ZFNs are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas III, Jing Guo
  • Publication number: 20120289682
    Abstract: A new and versatile class of cyclic diazodicarboxamides that reacts efficiently and selectively with phenols and the phenolic side chain of tyrosine through an Ene-like reaction is reported. This mild aqueous tyrosine ligation reaction works over a broad pH range and expands the repertoire of aqueous chemistries available for small molecule, peptide, and protein modification. The tyrosine ligation reactions are shown to be compatible with the labeling of native enzymes and antibodies in buffered aqueous solution. This reaction provides a novel synthetic approach to bispecific antibodies. This reaction will find broad utility in peptide and protein chemistry and in the chemistry of phenol-containing compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, III, Hitoshi Ban, Julia Gavrilyuk
  • Patent number: 8252902
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibody targeting compounds in which the specificity of the antibody has been reprogrammed by covalently or noncovalently linking a targeting agent to the combining site of an antibody. By this approach, the covalently modified antibody takes on the binding specificity of the targeting agent. The compound may have biological activity provided by the targeting agent or by a separate biological agent. Various uses of the invention compounds are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, Christoph Rader, Subhash C. Sinha, Richard A. Lerner
  • Publication number: 20120058114
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20120034211
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20120020966
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20120020967
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20110311516
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for chemically programmed vaccination. Methods include inducing a covalent-binding polyclonal antibody response in a subject and programming the polyclonal response with a targeting compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Publication number: 20110189206
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of the antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Patent number: 7985841
    Abstract: Filamentous phage comprising a matrix of cpVIII proteins encapsulating a genome encoding first and second polypeptides of an antogenously assembling receptor, such as an antibody, and a receptor comprised of the first and second polypeptides surface-integrated into the matrix via a filamentous phage coat protein membrane anchor domain fused to at least one of the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Angray Kang, Carlos F. Barbas, Richard A. Lerner
  • Publication number: 20100297101
    Abstract: The present invention provides integrin ?IIb?3 specific antibodies and peptides. The antibodies and peptides demonstrate little or no immunoreactivity with other integrins. Methods for inhibiting platelet aggregation using the antibodies and peptides are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Carlos F Barbas, Junho Chung
  • Patent number: 7833784
    Abstract: Polypeptides that contain zinc finger-nucleotide binding regions that bind to nucleotide sequences of the formula TNN are provided. Compositions containing a plurality of polypeptides, isolated heptapeptides possessing specific binding activity, polynucleotides that encode such polypeptides and methods of regulating gene expression with such polypeptides, compositions and polynucleotides are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, III, Birgit Dreier
  • Patent number: 7781645
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of plant and agricultural technology. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of zinc finger proteins and fusions of said proteins to regulate gene expression and metabolic pathways in plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignees: Syngenta Participations AG, The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, III, Justin T. Stege, Xueni Guan, Bipin Dalmia
  • Patent number: 7741110
    Abstract: Single chain, monomeric polypeptide gene switches are provided. The gene switches include ligand binding domains and at least one functional domain. Preferred functional domains are DNA binding domains and transcriptional regulating domains. Methods of regulating gene function using the switches are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, III, Roger Beerli, Ulrich Schopfer
  • Publication number: 20100086532
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to chimeric recombinases comprising a serine recombinase operatively linked to a zinc finger nucleotide binding domain such that the chimeric recombinase protein catalyzes site-specific recombination at a DNA site specifically bound by the zinc finger nucleotide binding domain. The serine recombinase can be one of several naturally occurring serine recombinases. The invention also includes nucleic acids encoding the chimeric recombinases, vectors including the nucleic acids, host cells transformed or transfected with the vectors, methods of using the chimeric recombinases to carry out recombination, methods of using substrate-linked protein evolution to generate additional chimeric recombinases, methods of using the chimeric recombinases for gene therapy, and pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, III, Russell M. Gordley
  • Publication number: 20100056457
    Abstract: Polypeptides that contain zinc finger-nucleotide binding regions that bind to nucleotide sequences of the formula CNN are provided. Compositions containing a plurality of polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode such polypeptides and methods of regulating gene expression with such polypeptides, compositions and polynucleotides are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Carlos F. Barbas, III, Birgit Dreier