Patents by Inventor Farshad Guirakhoo

Farshad Guirakhoo 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: 8029802
    Abstract: The invention provides attenuated Flavivirus vaccines, such as vaccines against Japanese encephalitis virus and West Nile virus, as well as methods of making and using these vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sanofi Pasteur Biologics Co.
    Inventors: Farshad Guirakhoo, J. Jian Liu, John A. Catalan, Thomas P. Monath, Konstantin V. Pugachev
  • Publication number: 20100278773
    Abstract: A chimeric live, infectious, attenuated virus containing a yellow fever virus, in which the nucleotide sequence for a prM-E protein is either deleted, truncated, or mutated, so that functional prM-E protein is not expressed, and integrated into the genome of the yellow fever virus, a nucleotide sequence encoding a prM-E protein of a second, different flavivirus, so that the prM-E protein of the second flavivirus is expressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas J. Chambers, Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo
  • Publication number: 20100255028
    Abstract: This invention relates to chimeric flavivirus vectors that can be used, for example, in the prevention and treatment of influenza virus infection, compositions including such viral vectors, and methods employing the vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Sanofi Pasteur Biologics Co.
    Inventors: Simon Delagrave, Farshad Guirakhoo, Caroline Maier, Alexander A. Rumyantsev
  • Publication number: 20100158938
    Abstract: The invention provides tetravalent Dengue vaccines, and methods of using these vaccines to prevent or to treat Dengue infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventor: Farshad Guirakhoo
  • Publication number: 20100034849
    Abstract: This invention relates to bicistronic flavivirus vectors, methods of using such vectors in the prevention and treatment of disease, and methods of making such vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Sanofi Pasteur Biologics Co.
    Inventors: Simon Delagrave, Nathan Brown, Harold Kleanthous, Farshad Guirakhoo, Alexander Rumyantsev
  • Publication number: 20090191240
    Abstract: The invention provides flavivirus vaccines and methods of making and using these vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo, Konstantin Pugachev
  • Patent number: 7459160
    Abstract: The invention provides flavivirus vaccines and methods of making and using these vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Acambis Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo, Konstantin Pugachev
  • Publication number: 20080274142
    Abstract: The invention provides flavivirus vaccines and methods of making and using these vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo, Konstantin Pugachev
  • Publication number: 20080193477
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and kits for use in vaccination against dengue virus infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicants: Acambis Inc., Sanofi Pasteur SA
    Inventors: Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Niranjan Kanesa-thasan, Thomas H. Ermak, Jean Lang, Remi Forrat
  • Publication number: 20080175862
    Abstract: The invention provides recombinant flavivirus vaccines that can be used in the prevention and treatment of flavivirus infection. The vaccines of the invention contain recombinant flaviviruses including attenuating mutations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Acambis Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin V. Pugachev, Farshad Guirakhoo, Thomas P. Monath
  • Publication number: 20070269458
    Abstract: The invention provides attenuated Flavivirus vaccines, such as vaccines against Japanese encephalitis virus and West Nile virus, as well as methods of making and using these vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: Acambis Inc.
    Inventors: Farshad Guirakhoo, Jian Liu, John Catalan, Thomas Monath, Konstantin Pugachev
  • Patent number: 6962708
    Abstract: A chimeric live, infectious, attenuated virus containing a yellow fever virus, in which the nucleotide sequence for a prM-E protein is either deleted, truncated, or mutated, so that functional prM-E protein is not expressed, and integrated into the genome of the yellow fever virus, a nucleotide sequence encoding a prM-E protein of a second, different flavivirus, so that the prM-E protein of the second flavivirus is expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignees: Acambis, Inc., St. Louis University
    Inventors: Thomas J. Chambers, Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo
  • Publication number: 20050002968
    Abstract: The invention provides attenuated flavivirus vaccines and methods of making and using these vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo, Konstantin Pugachev
  • Publication number: 20040259224
    Abstract: The invention provides tetravalent Dengue vaccines, and methods of using these vaccines to prevent or to treat Dengue infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventor: Farshad Guirakhoo
  • Publication number: 20040223979
    Abstract: A chimeric live, infectious, attenuated virus containing a yellow fever virus, in which the nucleotide sequence for a prM-E protein is either deleted, truncated, or mutated, so that functional prM-E protein is not expressed, and integrated into the genome of the yellow fever virus, a nucleotide sequence encoding a prM-E protein of a second, different flavivirus, so that the prM-E protein of the second flavivirus is expressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas J. Chambers, Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroy
  • Publication number: 20040120964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of vaccinating a subject comprising delivering a chimeric yellow fever 17D strain vector expressing an envelope protein gene product of a heterologous flavivirus to the epidermal compartment or the intradermal compartment of the subject's skin. The invention encompasses vaccine compositions comprising the chimeric yellow fever viruses expressing an envelope protein gene product of a heterologous flavivirus. The compositions of the invention result in an enhanced therapeutic efficacy, e.g., enhanced protective immune response as they enhance the presentation and availability of the chimeric vaccine to the targeted compartment of the subject's skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: John A. Mikszta, Jason B. Alarcon, Cheryl Dean, Andrea Waterston, Farshad Guirakhoo, Monath P. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6696281
    Abstract: A chimeric live, infectious, attenuated virus containing a yellow fever virus, in which the nucleotide sequence for a prM-E protein is either deleted, truncated, or mutated, so that functional prM-E protein is not expressed, and integrated into the genome of the yellow fever virus, a nucleotide sequence encoding a prM-E protein of a second, different flavivirus, so that the prM-E protein of the second flavivirus is expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignees: Acambis, Inc., St. Louis University
    Inventors: Thomas J. Chambers, Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo
  • Publication number: 20030180329
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing live, attenuated viral vaccines, such as flavivirus vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas P. Monath, Farshad Guirakhoo, Juan Arroyo
  • Patent number: 5837240
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for prophylactic and antibacterial therapy for Helicobacter, particularly for Helicobacter pylori, infection of humans. The immunogenic composition of the invention is composed of a plurality of multimeric complexes, each complex being composed of recombinant, enzymatically inactive Helicobacter pylori urease. Each multimeric complex is composed of six Urease A subunits and six Urease B subunits. Alternatively, the composition is composed of a mixture of multimeric complexes, wherein each multimeric complex in the mixture is composed of six Urease A subunits and six Urease B subunits or four Urease A subunits and four Urease B subunits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: OraVax-Merieux Co.
    Inventors: Cynthia K. Lee, Thomas P. Monath, Samuel K. Ackerman, William D. Thomas, Gopalan Soman, Harold Kleanthous, Richard A. Weltzin, Jacques Pappo, Thomas Ermak, Farshad Guirakhoo, Hitesh Bhagat, Ilene Sussman
  • Patent number: 5690938
    Abstract: Method of inducing a mucosal and or/systemic immune response in a host, comprising the step of administering to the host an effective amount of a Bluetongue antigen in the form of virus like and/or virus core like particles. Vaccines are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignees: Oravax, Inc., Natural Environment Research Council
    Inventors: Thomas H. Ermak, Jacques Pappo, Farshad Guirakhoo, Richard D. Nichols, Jr., Thomas P. Monath, Polly Roy