Patents by Inventor Edwin A. Clark

Edwin A. Clark 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: 20120195889
    Abstract: EGFR biomarkers useful in a method for predicting the likelihood that a mammal that will respond therapeutically to a method of treating cancer comprising administering an EGFR modulator, wherein the method comprises (a) measuring in the mammal the level of at least one biomarker selected from epiregulin and amphiregulin, (b) exposing a biological sample from the mammal to the EGFR modulator, and (c) following the exposing of step (b), measuring in the biological sample the level of the at least one biomarker, wherein an increase in the level of the at least one biomarker measured in step (c) compared to the level of the at least one biomarker measured in step (a) indicates an increased likelihood that the mammal will respond therapeutically to the method of treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Shirin K. Ford, Edwin A. Clark, Xin Huang
  • Publication number: 20120141604
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of markers that can be used to determine whether tumors are sensitive or resistant to a therapeutic agent. The present invention is also directed to the identification of therapeutic targets. The invention features a number of “sensitivity markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are sensitive to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are resistant to treatment with that agent. The invention also features a number of “resistance markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are resistant to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are sensitive to treatment with that agent. The invention also features marker sets that can predict patients that are likely to respond or not to respond to an agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Edwin Clark, Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, Karen Lu, Lynn Hartmann, Jeffrey L. Brown, Robert C. Bast, JR., Gordon B. Mills
  • Patent number: 8129114
    Abstract: EGFR biomarkers useful in a method for predicting the likelihood that a mammal that will respond therapeutically to a method of treating cancer comprising administering an EGFR modulator, wherein the method comprises (a) measuring in the mammal the level of at least one biomarker selected from epiregulin and amphiregulin, (b) exposing a biological sample from the mammal to the EGFR modulator, and (c) following the exposing of step (b), measuring in the biological sample the level of the at least one biomarker, wherein an increase in the level of the at least one biomarker measured in step (c) compared to the level of the at least one biomarker measured in step (a) indicates an increased likelihood that the mammal will respond therapeutically to the method of treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Shirin K. Ford, Edwin A. Clark, Xin Huang
  • Patent number: 8080368
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of markers that can be used to determine whether tumors are sensitive or resistant to a therapeutic agent. The present invention is also directed to the identification of therapeutic targets. The invention features a number of “sensitivity markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are sensitive to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are resistant to treatment with that agent. The invention also features a number of “resistance markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are resistant to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are sensitive to treatment with that agent. The invention also features marker sets that can predict patients that are likely to respond or not to respond to an agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin Clark, Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, Karen Lu, Lynn Hartmann, Jeffrey L. Brown, Robert C. Bast, Jr., Gordon B. Mills
  • Patent number: 8007995
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis, treatment and management of cancers that express particular genes, including the moesin, caveolin 1, and/or yes-associated protein 1 genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignees: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Richard S. Finn, Judy Dering, Dennis J. Slamon, Charles L. Ginther, Edwin A. Clark
  • Publication number: 20110166154
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided useful in the diagnosis, treatment and management of cancers wherein cancer cells express certain polynucleotides and/or polypeptides that are differentially expressed in colon cancer subtypes that are sensitive to therapy with abl kinase inhibitors and src kinase inhibitors. In particular, PTK-7, PLK-2 and PLK-3 could be identified as markers for determining the responsiveness of cancer to dasatinib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY
    Inventors: Dennis J. Slamon, Richard S. Finn, Judy Dering, J. Randolph Hecht, Zev A. Wainberg, Edwin A. Clark, Charles L. Ginther
  • Publication number: 20110104664
    Abstract: Biomarkers that are useful for identifying a mammal that will respond therapeutically or is responding therapeutically to a method of treating cancer that comprises administering a microtubule-stabilizing agent. In one aspect, the cancer is breast cancer, and the microtubule-stabilizing agent is an epothilone or analog or derivative thereof, or ixabepilone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Hyerim Lee, Edwin A. Clark, Shujian Wu, Li-An Xu
  • Publication number: 20110104306
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of markers that can be used to determine whether tumors are sensitive or resistant to a therapeutic agent. The present invention is also directed to the identification of therapeutic targets. The invention features a number of “sensitivity markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are sensitive to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are resistant to treatment with that agent. The invention also features a number of “resistance markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are resistant to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are sensitive to treatment with that agent. The invention also features marker sets that can predict patients that are likely to respond or not to respond to an agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicants: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Edwin Clark, Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, Karen Lu, Lynn Hartmann, Jeffrey L. Brown
  • Patent number: 7932031
    Abstract: Biomarkers that are useful for identifying a mammal that will respond therapeutically or is responding therapeutically to a method of treating cancer that comprises administering a microtubule-stabilizing agent. In one aspect, the cancer is breast cancer, and the microtubule-stabilizing agent is an epothilone or analog or derivative thereof, or ixabepilone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Hyerim Lee, Peter Shaw, Edwin A. Clark
  • Patent number: 7871775
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of markers that can be used to determine whether tumors are sensitive or resistant to a therapeutic agent. The present invention is also directed to the identification of therapeutic targets. The invention features a number of “sensitivity markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are sensitive to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are resistant to treatment with that agent. The invention also features a number of “resistance markers.” These are markers that are expressed in most or all cell lines that are resistant to treatment with an agent and which are not expressed (or are expressed at a rather low level) in cells that are sensitive to treatment with that agent. The invention also features marker sets that can predict patients that are likely to respond or not to respond to an agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignees: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Mayo Foundation for Medical Edication and Research, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Edwin Clark, Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, Karen Lu, Lynn Hartmann, Jeffrey L. Brown, Robert C. Bast, Jr., Gordon B. Mills
  • Publication number: 20100221754
    Abstract: EGFR biomarkers useful in a method for predicting the likelihood that a mammal that will respond therapeutically to a method of treating cancer comprising administering an EGFR modulator, wherein the method comprises (a) measuring in the mammal the level of at least one biomarker selected from epiregulin and amphiregulin, (b) exposing a biological sample from the mammal to the EGFR modulator, and (c) following the exposing of step (b), measuring in the biological sample the level of the at least one biomarker, wherein an increase in the level of the at least one biomarker measured in step (c) compared to the level of the at least one biomarker measured in step (a) indicates an increased likelihood that the mammal will respond therapeutically to the method of treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Shirin K. Ford, Edwin A. Clark, Xin Huang
  • Publication number: 20100190150
    Abstract: EGFR biomarkers useful in a method for identifying a mammal that will respond therapeutically to a method of treating cancer comprising administering an EGFR modulator, wherein the method comprises (a) exposing the mammal to the EGFR modulator and (b) measuring in the mammal the level of the at least one biomarker, wherein a difference in the level of the at least one biomarker measured in (b) compared to the level of the biomarker in a mammal that has not been exposed to the EGFR modulator indicates that the mammal will respond therapeutically to the method of treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Edwin A. Clark, Shirin K. Ford, Suganthy Yoganathan, Donald G. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20100120788
    Abstract: The present invention describes polynucleotides that have been discovered to correlate to the relative intrinsic sensitivity or resistance of cells, e.g., prostate cell lines, to treatment with compounds that interact with and modulate, e.g., inhibit, protein tyrosine kinases, such as, for example, members of the Src family of tyrosine kinases, e.g., Src, Fgr, Fyn, Yes, Blk, Hck, Lck and Lyn, as well as other protein tyrosine kinases, including, Bcr-abl, Jak, PDGFR, c-kit and Eph receptors. These polynucleotides have been shown to have utility in predicting the resistance and sensitivity of prostate cell lines to the compounds. The expression level or phosphorylation status of some polynucleotides is regulated by treatment with a particular protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor compound, thus indicating that these polynucleotides are involved in the protein tyrosine kinase signal transduction pathway, e.g., Src tyrosine kinase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Xi-De Wang, Fei Huang, Edwin A. Clark
  • Publication number: 20100009358
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for detecting, characterizing, preventing, and treating human breast cancers. A variety of newly identified markers are provided, wherein changes in the levels of expression of one or more of the markers is correlated with the presence of breast cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicants: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mark D. Ayers, Jim Stec, Andrew Damokosh, Edwin Clark, Kenneth R. Hess, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Lajos Pusztai, W. Fraser Symmans, Robert C. Bast, JR.
  • Publication number: 20090170866
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis, treatment and management of cancers that express particular genes, including the moesin, caveolin 1, and/or yes-associated protein 1 genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicants: Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma Company, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Richard S. Finn, Judy Dering, Dennis J. Slamon, Charles L. Ginther, Edwin A. Clark
  • Publication number: 20090136961
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of markers that can be used to determine whether ovarian cancer is sensitive or resistant to a therapeutic agent. In particular, the present invention is directed to the use of certain combinations of markers, wherein the expression of the markers correlates with sensitivity or resistance to a therapeutic agent. Thus, by examining the expression of the individual markers of a marker set, also referred to as the expression profile of the marker set, it is possible to determine whether a therapeutic agent, or combination of agents, will be most likely to reduce the growth rate of the ovarian cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicants: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Board of Regents, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Andrew I. Damokosh, Natalia Lartchouk, James J. Stec, II, Edwin A. Clark, Karen Lu, Lynn Hartmann, Robert C. Bast, JR., Gordon B. Mills
  • Patent number: 7504222
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for detecting, characterizing, preventing, and treating human breast cancers. A variety of newly identified markers are provided, wherein changes in the levels of expression of one or more of the markers is correlated with the presence of breast cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignees: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Board of Regents, The University of Texas
    Inventors: Mark D. Ayers, Jim Stec, Andrew Damokosh, Edwin Clark, Kenneth R. Hess, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Lajos Pusztai, W. Fraser Symmans, Robert C. Bast, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7470509
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of markers that can be used to determine whether ovarian cancer is sensitive or resistant to a therapeutic agent. In particular, the present invention is directed to the use of certain combinations of markers, wherein the expression of the markers correlates with sensitivity or resistance to a therapeutic agent. Thus, by examining the expression of the individual markers of a marker set, also referred to as the expression profile of the marker set, it is possible to determine whether a therapeutic agent, or combination of agents, will be most likely to reduce the growth rate of the ovarian cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew I. Damokosh, Natalia Iartchouk, James J. Stec, II, Edwin A. Clark, Karen Lu, Lynn Hartmann, Robert C. Bast, Jr., Gordon B. Mills
  • Publication number: 20080318228
    Abstract: Biomarkers that are useful for identifying a mammal that will respond therapeutically or is responding therapeutically to a method of treating cancer that comprises administering a microtubule-stabilizing agent. In one aspect, the cancer is breast cancer, and the microtubule-stabilizing agent is an epothilone or analog or derivative thereof, or ixabepilone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Hyerim Lee, Peter Shaw, Edwin A. Clark
  • Patent number: 7460148
    Abstract: The disclosed Near Real-Time Video (NRTV) system is a complete video processing, smart dissemination and user display capability for dissemination of video data from surveillance systems, such as manned and unmanned aerial surveillance platforms. The system requires significantly less bandwidth for dissemination than traditional, full analog video distribution. The exemplary system ingests an analog video source signal from a surveillance platform, digitizes the video, and allows a local or remote user to visualize frames of the video field of view on a standard map display. From an overlay of the field(s) of view, the system allows the user to request selected images or a video clip from the actual video surveillance information. Using available communications, the request is relayed to the video processing subsystem, and a video file of the requested information is generated and sent back to the user for display, all in near real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Edwin Clark, Glenn J. Horton, Vincent Castello, Daniel W. Wells