Patents by Inventor Fazel Shabenpoor

Fazel Shabenpoor 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).

  • Modified Relaxin Polypeptides
    Publication number: 20140024592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to biologically active relaxin polypeptides comprising a relaxin A chain and a B chain derived from a relaxin superfamily member, wherein the A chain comprises no intra-chain disulphide bonds. In particular embodiments the modified polypeptides comprise relaxin-3 derived A and B chains, and truncations of the A and/or B chains from the N-termini and/or C-termini. In particular embodiments the polypeptides of the invention are selective agonists or antagonists of the RXFP3 receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine
    Inventors: Fazel Shabenpoor, Mohammed Akhter Hossain, Ross Alexander David Bathgate, John Desmond Wade, Andrew Lawrence Gundlach