Patents by Inventor Carmela Molinaro
Carmela Molinaro 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).
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Publication number: 20240254457Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine or oxime reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Margie Borra-Garsek, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Mayo, Stephan Jenne, Auric Anthoney Sowell-Kantz, Carmela Molinaro
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Patent number: 11987818Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine or oxime reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Margie Tabuga Borra-Garske, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, Stephan Jenne, Auric Anthony Sowell-Kantz, Carmela Molinaro
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Publication number: 20240034739Abstract: Processes are provided herein for the preparation of a bicyclic ketone compound of formula (I), or a stereoisomer thereof: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3 and n are as defined herein; and compounds prepared by these processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicants: Genentech, Inc., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.Inventors: Allen Yu HONG, Nicholas WONG, Sean M. KELLY, Lauren Elizabeth SIROIS, Sara SCHWEGLER, Xin LINGHU, Francis GOSSELIN, Katarzyna Aleksandra PIECHOWICZ, Carmela MOLINARO, Dennis WETZL
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Publication number: 20210284973Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine or oxime reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Margie Tabuga Borra-Garske, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, Stephan Jenne, Auric Anthony Sowell-Kantz, Carmela Molinaro
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Patent number: 11046936Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine or oxime reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: Margie Tabuga Borra-Garske, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, Stephan Jenne, Auric Anthony Sowell-Kantz, Carmela Molinaro
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Publication number: 20200208123Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine or oxime reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Margie Tabuga Borra-Garske, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, Stephan Jenne, Auric Anthony Sowell-Kantz, Carmela Molinaro
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Patent number: 10106541Abstract: The invention encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, which are CGRP receptor antagonists useful for the treatment of migraine.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Frank Chen, Carmela Molinaro, W. Peter Wuelfing, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jianguo Yin, Yong-Li Zhong, Joseph Lynch, Teresa Andreani
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Patent number: 9994587Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2,6-morpholine derivatives of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Z1, Z2, V1, V2, V3, R6, R6A, and X are defined herein. The invention also relates to methods of using the 2,6-morpholine derivatives of the invention for the inhibition of HV protease, the inhibition of HV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Canada Inc.Inventors: John A. McCauley, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Thomas J. Greshock, M. Katharine Holloway, Peter D. Williams, Christian Beaulieu, Sheldon Crane, Stephanie Lessard, Daniel Mckay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Vijayasaradhi Sivalenka, Vouy Linh Truong, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli
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Publication number: 20180127417Abstract: The invention encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, which are CGRP receptor antagonists useful for the treatment of migraine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Frank Chen, Carmela Molinaro, W. Peter Wuelfing, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jianguo Yin, Yong-Li Zhong, Joseph Lynch
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Patent number: 9850246Abstract: The invention encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, which are CGRP receptor antagonists useful for the treatment of migraine.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.Inventors: Frank Chen, Carmela Molinaro, W. Peter Wuelfing, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jianguo Yin, Yong-Li Zhong, Joseph Lynch, Teresa Andreani
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Patent number: 9834526Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2,5,6-substituted morpholine derivatives and their use in the inhibition of HIV protease, the inhibition of HIV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MERCK CANADA INC.Inventors: John A. McCauley, Christian Beaulieu, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Sheldon Crane, Thomas J. Greshock, Katharine M. Holloway, Daniel McKay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, Vouy Linh Truong, Peter D. Williams
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Patent number: 9737545Abstract: The present invention is directed to 5-heteroarylmorpholine derivatives and their use in the inhibition of HIV protease, the inhibition of HIV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Canada Inc.Inventors: John A. McCauley, Christian Beaulieu, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Sheldon Crane, Thomas J. Greshock, Katharine M. Holloway, Helen Juteau, Daniel McKay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Christian Nadeau, Daniel Simard, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, Vouy Linh Truong, Karine M. Villeneuve, Peter D. Williams
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Publication number: 20170233382Abstract: This invention provides processes for the preparation of verubecestat (Compound of Formula (I)), a potent inhibitor of BACE-1 and BACE-2. In addition, the invention provides certain synthetic intermediates which are useful, among other things, for the preparation of the Compound of Formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Steven P. Miller, Carmela Molinaro, David Thaisrivongs, Feng Xu, Richard Desmond, Hongming Li, Qinghao Chen, Andrew W. Stamford, Zhiguo Jake Song, Lushi Tan
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Publication number: 20170217986Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2,6-morpholine derivatives of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Z1, Z2, V1, V2, V3, R6, R6A, and X are defined herein. The invention also relates to methods of using the 2,6-morpholine derivatives of the invention for the inhibition of HV protease, the inhibition of HV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Merck Canada Inc.Inventors: John A. McCauley, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Thomas J. Greshock, M. Katharine Holloway, Peter D. Williams, Christian Beaulieu, Sheldon Crane, Stephanie Lessard, Daniel Mckay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Vijayasaradhi Sivalenka, Vouy Linh Truong, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli
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Publication number: 20160311786Abstract: The present invention is directed to 2,5,6-substituted morpholine derivatives and their use in the inhibition of HIV protease, the inhibition of HIV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicants: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MERCK CANADA INC.Inventors: John A. McCauley, Christian Beaulieu, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Sheldon Crane, Thomas J. Greshock, Katharine M. Holloway, Daniel McKay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, Vouy Linh Truong, Peter D. Williams
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Publication number: 20160296527Abstract: The present invention is directed to 5-heteroarylmorpholine derivatives and their use in the inhibition of HIV protease, the inhibition of HIV replication, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicants: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MERCK CANADA INC.Inventors: John A. McCauley, Christian Beaulieu, David Jonathan Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Sheldon Crane, Thomas J. Greshock, Katharine M. Holloway, Helen Juteau, Daniel McKay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Christian Nadeau, Daniel Simard, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, Vouy Linh Truong, Karine M. Villeneuve, Peter D. Williams
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Publication number: 20160130273Abstract: The invention encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, which are CGRP receptor antagonists useful for the treatment of migraine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.Inventors: Frank Chen, Carmela Molinaro, W. Peter Wuelfing, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jianguo Yin, Yong-Li Zhong, Joseph Lynch, Teresa Andreani
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Patent number: 9315475Abstract: The compounds encompassed by Formula I include compounds which are HIV protease inhibitors and other compounds which can be metabolized in vivo to HIV protease inhibitors. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of infection by HIV and the prophylaxis, treatment, or delay in the onset of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MERCK CANADA INC.Inventors: Christian Beaulieu, David J. Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Ronald K. Chang, Sheldon Crane, Thomas J. Greshock, Li Hao, Kate Holloway, Jesse J. Manikowski, John A. McCauley, Daniel McKay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Philippe G. Nantermet, Christian Nadeau, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, William Shipe, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Vouy Linh Truong, Sivalenka Vijayasaradhi, Peter D. Williams, Catherine M. Wiscount
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Patent number: 9174989Abstract: The disclosure encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, having less steps and improved yields as compared to previous synthetic methods for making these compounds, which are CGRP receptor antagonists, useful for the treatment of migraine. Conditions for an amide bond formation between an acid and amine include for example reacting the compounds of Formulae B (after salt break) and C with an amide coupling reagent and optionally an additive and an acid and/or a base in a non-reactive solvent.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Frank Chen, Carmela Molinaro, W. Peter Wuelfing, Nobuyoshi Yasuda, Jianguo Yin, Yong-Li Zhong, Joseph Lynch, Teresa Andreani
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Patent number: 9079834Abstract: Compounds of Formula I are disclosed wherein R1, R2, R3A, R3B, R4A, R4B, R5A, R5B, R6A, R6B, R7, R8 and R9 are defined herein. The compounds encompassed by Formula I include compounds which are HIV protease inhibitors and other compounds which can be metabolized in vivo to HIV protease inhibitors. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of infection by HIV and the prophylaxis, treatment, or delay in the onset of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Merck Canada Inc.Inventors: Michael John Boyd, Carmela Molinaro, Amelie Roy, Vouy-Linh Truong