Patents by Inventor Eric S. Fischer
Eric S. Fischer 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: 20240277852Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions by modulating (e.g., reducing) the level or activity of at least one of PIP4K2A, PIP4K2B, and PIP4K2C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Mingxing Teng, Eric Wang, Jie Jiang, Tinghu Zhang, Lewis C. Cantley, Eric S. Fischer, Katherine A. Donovan
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Publication number: 20240269139Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds for targeted kinase degradation, methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by aberrant kinase activity, and methods for identifying degradable kinases and optimal kinase:scaffold pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Eric S. Fischer, Fleur M. Ferguson, Katherine Donovan, Jonathan W. Bushman, Taebo Sim, Debabrata Bhunia, SeongShick Ryu
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Publication number: 20240245786Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions by modulating (e.g., reducing) the level or activity of at least one of PIP4K2A, PIP4K2B, and PIP4K2C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Lewis C. Cantley, Sindhu Carmen Sivakumaren, Theresa Manz, Eric Wang, Wenzhi Ji, Eric S. Fischer, Katherine Donovan
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Publication number: 20240246956Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treat diseases or conditions mediated by aberrant activity of at least one class IIa histone deacetylase (HDAC4/5/7/9).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Yuan Xiong, Katherine Donovan
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Publication number: 20240142437Abstract: Presented are methods of assessing the teratogenicity of agents by measuring the degradation of SALL4, and related compounds with reduced teratogenicity. Provided herein is a method for assessing the teratogenicity of an agent comprising: contacting an agent with SALL4; and measuring levels of SALL4, wherein the agent is teratogenic if SALL4 levels are substantially reduced in the presence of the agent relative to in the absence of the agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Katherine Donovan
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Publication number: 20230357222Abstract: Disclosed are bispecific compounds (degraders) that target cereblon (CRBN) for degradation. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the degraders and methods of using the compounds as research tools and to reduce adverse side effects associated with a cereblon targeted therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Zhixiang He, Tinghu Zhang, Chelsea Powell, Eric S. Fischer, Jonathan Bushman, Guangyan Du
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Publication number: 20230192644Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates, prodrugs, stereoisomers, and tautomers thereof that may cause degradation of various proteins e.g., IKZF2 (Helios). Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and methods of making and using the compounds to treat diseases and disorders associated with Helios and which may benefit from Helios degradation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Eric S. Fischer, Alyssa Verano, Hu Liu, Tinghu Zhang, Lyn H. Jones, Eric S. Wang, Radoslaw Nowak, Jianwei Che
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Publication number: 20230011665Abstract: The present invention relates to bispecific compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by aberrant histone deacety lase 6 (HDAC6) activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Yuan Xiong, Katherine Donovan, Nicholas Eleuteri
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Publication number: 20220401564Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by aberrant histone deacetylase (HCADC) (e.g., HDAC3) activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Yuan Xiong, Katherine Donovan, Nicholas Eleuteri
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Publication number: 20220402981Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods for modulating protein abundance in a target-specific manner via degron tags.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Shourya Sonkar Roy Burman, Tyler Faust, Hojong Yoon, Radoslaw P. Nowak
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Publication number: 20220387604Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by aberrant histone deacetylases 6 and 8 (HDAC6/8) activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Yuan Xiong, Katherine Donovan, Nicholas Eleuteri
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Patent number: 11505560Abstract: Disclosed are heterobifunctional compounds that effectuate selective degradation of a target protein, and which include a targeting ligand that binds a target protein and at least one other protein, a ligand that binds an E3 ubiquitin ligase or a component of E3 ubiquitin ligase, and a specificity modulating linker that links the first ligand and the second ligand. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods of using and making the compounds are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Radoslaw P. Nowak, Eric S. Fischer, Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Zhixiang He, Brian Groendyke
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Publication number: 20220281931Abstract: The invention features methods for characterizing a cancer as sensitive or resistant to Bcl6 therapies, as well as compositions and methods for inducing the degradation or polymerization of a polypeptide of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Stiftung des öffentlichen RechtsInventors: Benjamin EBERT, Mikolaj SLABICKI, Eric S. FISCHER, Hojong YOON, Jonas KOEPPEL
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Publication number: 20220242872Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. The compounds described herein bind an E3 ubiquitin ligase (e.g., Cereblon) and induce degradation of a transcription factor (e.g., IKZF1, IKZF3). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., carcinoma); leukemia, lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma, and acute myeloid leukemia (AML))). Further provided are methods of inducing the degradation of a transcription factor (e.g., IKZF1, IKZF3) by administering a compound or composition described herein to a subject and/or to a biological sample (e.g., cell or tissue).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Jun Qi, Eric S. Fischer, Paul M. Park, Chengkui Pei, Radoslaw Piotr Nowak
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Publication number: 20220062291Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods of treating cancers by constitutively activating protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) without blocking signaling through the dopamine D2 receptor, that entail administering a therapeutically effective amount of an analog of perphenazine (PPZ) of formula (I) or (II), or a related PPZ analog lacking dopamine receptor D2 inhibitory activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Alfred T. Look, Ken Morita, Eric S. Fischer, Nathanael S. Gray, Shuning He
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Publication number: 20220047709Abstract: Disclosed are bifunctional compounds (degraders) that target Wee1 tyrosine kinase for degradation. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the degraders and methods of using the compounds to treat disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, David Scott, Zhengnian Li, Benika J. Pinch, Calla Olson, Eric S. Fischer, Radoslaw P. Nowak, Katherine A. Donovan
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Publication number: 20210130368Abstract: Disclosed are heterobifunctional compounds that effectuate selective degradation of a target protein, and which include a targeting ligand that binds a target protein and at least one other protein, a ligand that binds an E3 ubiquitin ligase or a component of E3 ubiquitin ligase, and a specificity modulating linker that links the first ligand and the second ligand. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods of using and making the compounds are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Radoslaw P. NOWAK, Eric S. FISCHER, Nathanael S. GRAY, Tinghu ZHANG, Zhixiang HE, Brian GROENDYKE
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Publication number: 20200348285Abstract: Presented are methods of assessing the teratogenicity of agents by measuring the degradation of SALL4, and related compounds with reduced teratogenicity. Provided herein is a method for assessing the teratogenicity of an agent comprising: contacting an agent with SALL4; and measuring levels of SALL4, wherein the agent is teratogenic if SALL4 levels are substantially reduced in the presence of the agent relative to in the absence of the agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Katherine Donovan
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Patent number: 5511316Abstract: A stencil for cutting sandpaper and it is formed from a sheet of plastic transparent plastic material having four corner lips extending down from the corners of the sheet. These corner lips have inner edges that define a rectangular recess for receiving a stack of standard sized sheets of sandpaper. Linear slots and arcuate slots in the stencil allow the sandpaper to be cut into two equal parts, three equal parts, four equal parts or circular disks having 6, 7, and 8 inch diameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Inventors: Rory T. Fischer, Eric S. Fischer
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Patent number: 5207348Abstract: An auxiliary paint brush bucket that has a planar front wall, an arcuate rear wall and a bottom wall to form an open top container. The front surface of the front wall has a plurality of conical shaped raised bumps thereon formed in a predetermined pattern so that a paint roller may be squeezed against the front wall surface to remove excess paint and it runs down the channels between the respective bumps. A unique pair of laterally spaced clips are formed on the top edge of the rear wall so that it can be removably installed along the inner surface of either a two gallon or five gallon paint bucket.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1992Date of Patent: May 4, 1993Inventors: Eric S. Fischer, Rory T. Fischer