Patents by Inventor Fleur M. Ferguson

Fleur M. Ferguson 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: 20240091213
    Abstract: Provided herein are bifunctional compounds that bind tau protein and/or promote targeted ubiquitination for the degradation of tau protein. In particular, provided are compounds that can bind tau protein, a protein whose aggregation is implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative disease (e.g., tauopathies), and can promote its degradation by recruiting an E3 ubiquitin ligase (e.g., Cereblon), which can ubiquitinate tau protein, marking it for proteasomal degradation. Also provided are radiolabeled forms of the bifunctional compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bifunctional compounds, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing neurological disorders, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing pathological aggregation of tau protein (e.g., in the central nervous system), methods of treating and/or preventing neurological disorders, and methods of promoting the degradation of tau protein by E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in a subject by administering a compound or composition described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION d/b/a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Stephen J. Haggarty, Quan Cai, Tinghu Zhang, Maria Catarina Telo Baptista Lima da Silva, Fleur M. Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20230226195
    Abstract: Disclosed are bispecific compounds (degraders) that target ?-synuclein protein for degradation. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the degraders and methods of using the compounds to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fleur M. Ferguson, Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Stephen J. Haggarty
  • Publication number: 20230133538
    Abstract: Disclosed are bispecific compounds (degraders) that target tau protein for degradation. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the degraders and methods of using the compounds to treat neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases associated with aberrant tau.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fleur M. Ferguson, Nathanael S. Gray, Stephen J. Haggarty, Maria Catarina Telo Baptista Lima Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20220169631
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I?) or (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., carcinoma); lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer)), metabolic disorders (e.g., diabetes), autoimmune diseases, and neurological diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, gliosis, spinal cord injury)) in a subject, as well as for male contraception (e.g., reducing or inhibiting spermatogenesis, or reducing the rate of male fertility in a healthy fertile male subject). Provided are methods of inhibiting a CDK (e.g., CDK14, CDK15, CDK16, CDK17, CDK18) in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Fleur M. Ferguson, Zainab M. Doctor
  • Publication number: 20220089589
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dTAG system comprising a small molecule degraders of FKBP12-tagged proteins via recruitment of Von Hippel-Lindau E3 ubiquitin ligase (VHL) E3 ubiquitin ligase and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Fleur M. Ferguson, Behnam Nabet, Dennis L. Buckley
  • Patent number: 11155556
    Abstract: The present invention relates to use of pyrimido-diazepinone compounds that are able to modulate protein kinases such as PI3K-? and PI3K-?, which are members of the Class I Type IA and Class I Type IB family of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinases, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Fleur M. Ferguson, Jean Zhao, Jing Ni
  • Publication number: 20210292299
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I?) or (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., carcinoma); lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer)), metabolic disorders (e.g., diabetes), autoimmune diseases, and neurological diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, gliosis, spinal cord injury)) in a subject, as well as for male contraception (e.g., reducing or inhibiting spermatogenesis, or reducing the rate of male fertility in a healthy fertile male subject). Provided are methods of inhibiting a CDK (e.g., CDK14, CDK15, CDK16, CDK17, CDK18) in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Fleur M. Ferguson, Zainab M. Doctor
  • Patent number: 11028089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to use of pyrimido-diazepinone compounds that are able to modulate protein kinases such as doublecortin-like kinase (DCLK1) and doublecortin-like kinase 2 (DCLK2), which are members of serine/threonine-protein kinase family and Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase class of enzymes, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Fleur M. Ferguson, Nathanael S. Gray
  • Publication number: 20210154184
    Abstract: Provided herein are bifunctional compounds that bind tau protein and/or promote targeted ubiquitination for the degradation of tau protein. In particular, provided are compounds that can bind tau protein, a protein whose aggregation is implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative disease (e.g., tauopathies), and can promote its degradation by recruiting an E3 ubiquitin ligase (e.g., Cereblon), which can ubiquitinate tau protein, marking it for proteasomal degradation. Also provided are radiolabeled forms of the bifunctional compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bifunctional compounds, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing neurological disorders, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing pathological aggregation of tau protein (e.g., in the central nervous system), methods of treating and/or preventing neurological disorders, and methods of promoting the degradation of tau protein by E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in a subject by administering a compound or composition described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation D/B/A Massachusetts General Hospital
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Stephen J. Haggarty, Quan Cai, Tinghu Zhang, Maria Catarina Telo Baptista Lima da Silva, Fleur M. Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20190315753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to use of pyrimido-diazepinone compounds that are able to modulate protein kinases such as doublecortin-like kinase (DCLK1) and doublecortin-like kinase 2 (DCLK2), which are members of serine/threonine-protein kinase family and Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase class of enzymes, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Fleur M. Ferguson, Nathanael S. Gray
  • Publication number: 20190106424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to use of pyrimido-diazepinone compounds that are able to modulate protein kinases such as PI3K-? and PI3K-?, which are members of the Class I Type IA and Class I Type IB family of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinases, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Fleur M. Ferguson, Jean Zhao, Jing Ni