Patents by Inventor Francois Lux

Francois Lux 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: 11857604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of nanovectors for the delivery of active substances in the body, in particular for the treatment of tumours. In particular, the use of these nanovectors makes it possible to improve the pharmacokinetics of the active substances with a more selective delivery, for example in the tumour tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NH THERAGUIX
    Inventors: Olivier Tillement, François Lux, Fabien Rossetti, Vu-Long Tran, Clélia Mathieu, Myleva Dahan
  • Publication number: 20230405154
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to nanoparticles and the uses thereof in medicine, in particular for the treatment of tumours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Olivier TILLEMENT, François LUX, Fabien ROSSETTI, Paul ROCCHI, Tristan DOUSSINEAU
  • Publication number: 20230390394
    Abstract: Provided herein are nanoparticle compositions (e.g., nanoparticle compositions comprising high atomic number ions) that are useful for imaging diseases in a subject as well as radiosensitizing a disease in a subject (e.g., radiosensitizing a cancer in the subject). Methods of imaging a subject, methods of treating cancer, and processes of preparing the nanoparticle compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ross Berbeco, Eloise Thomas, Francois Lux, Olivier Tillement, Alexandre Detappe, Geraldine Le Duc
  • Publication number: 20230346971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to nanoparticles and the uses thereof in medicine, in particular for the treatment of tumours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Olivier TILLEMENT, François LUX, Delphine VERNOS, Claire RODRIGUEZ-LAFRASSE, Thomas BRICHART, Marco NATUZZI, Alain GELOEN, Simon CHAMPAGNE, Matteo MARTINI, Paul ROCCHI
  • Publication number: 20230330229
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for treating tumors. In particular, the disclosure relates to a method of treating a tumor by magnetic resonance image-guided radiation therapy in a subject in need thereof, said method comprising the steps of: (i) administering an efficient amount of high-Z element containing nanoparticles having, contrast enhancement for magnetic resonance imaging and/or radiosensitizing properties for radiation therapy, in a subject in need thereof, and, (ii) exposing said subject to magnetic resonance image-guided radiation therapy by means of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Linear Accelerator (MR-Linac), wherein said high-Z element containing nanoparticles are nanoparticles containing an element with an atomic Z number higher than 40, preferably higher than 50, and said nanoparticles have a mean hydrodynamic diameter below 20 nm, for example between 1 and 10 nm, preferably between 2 and 8 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT, Géraldine LE DUC, Aurélien MEYZAUD, Magali ROUFFIAC, Céline MIRJOLET, Daniel CAGNEY, Ross BERBECO, Needa Virani
  • Publication number: 20230263912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a statistical polysaccharide with a weight-average molecular weight of between 100 kDa and 1000 kDa of the following formula (I): in which: each Rc independently represents a group containing a chelating agent, each Z independently represents a binder which may be a single bond or a hydrocarbon chain containing between 1 and 12 carbon atoms, said chain able to be either linear or branched and being able to contain one or more unsaturations and being able to contain one or more heteroatoms, preferably chosen from nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and atoms of the halogen family, x is between 0.005 and 0.7, preferably between 0.05 and 0.7, and preferentially between 0.2 and 0.6, y is between 0.01 and 0.7, preferably between 0.05 and 0.2, the ratio of y/x being greater than or equal to 0.05, preferably greater than or equal to 0.15, and the sum of x+y being greater than or equal to 0.30, preferably greater than or equal to 0.35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Olivier TILLEMENT, François LUX, Fabien ROSSETTI, Marco NATUZZI, Thomas BRICHART, Laurent DAVID, Paula NUNES DE OLIVEIRA, Alexandra MONTEBAULT
  • Publication number: 20230218781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of nanomedicine, in particular for treating cancers. The present disclosure more specifically provides new methods of treating undesirable M2-polarized macrophages and/or inducing M1 macrophage polarization in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of nanoparticles containing metallic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Awatef ALLOUCH, Eric DEUTSCH, Jean-Luc PERFETTINI, François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT
  • Publication number: 20230173155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical devices, more particularly the field of devices for extracting circulating molecules from the blood of a mammal, and their therapeutic uses, in particular in treating sepsis, cytokine release syndrome and/or any other form of systemic inflammatory response or cytokine shock, caused by bacterial, parasitic, fungal or viral infections, in particular caused by a viral infection, for example coronaviruses with human respiratory tract tropism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Marco NATUZZI, Thomas BRICHART, Fabien ROSSETTI, Matteo MARTINI, François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT, Jean-Luc PERFETTINI, Vanessa LOUZIER, Jeanne-Marie BONNET-GARIN, Jean-Yves AYOUB
  • Publication number: 20230109283
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel biocompatible hybrid nanoparticles of very small size, useful in particular for diagnostics and/or therapy. The purpose of the invention is to offer novel nanoparticles which are useful in particular as contrast agents in imaging (e.g. MRD and/or in other diagnostic techniques and/or as therapeutic agents, which give better performance than the known nanoparticles of the same type and which combine both a small size (for example less than 20 nm) and a high loading with metals (e.g. rare earths), in particular so as to have, in imaging (e.g. MRI), strong intensification and a correct response (increased relaxivity) at high frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: NANOH, UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON
    Inventors: François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT, Maxime SAINT JEAN, Pierre MOWAT, Pascal PERRIAT, Stéphane ROUX, Anna MIGNOT
  • Patent number: 11590225
    Abstract: Provided herein are nanoparticle compositions (e.g., nanoparticle compositions comprising high atomic number ions) that are useful for imaging diseases in a subject as well as radiosensitizing a disease in a subject (e.g., radiosensitizing a cancer in the subject). Methods of imaging a subject, methods of treating cancer, and processes of preparing the nanoparticle compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., NH TherAguix, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Ross Berbeco, Eloise Thomas, Francois Lux, Olivier Tillement, Alexandre Detappe, Geraldine Le Duc
  • Patent number: 11529316
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel use of ultrafine nanoparticles, of use as a diagnostic, therapeutic or theranostic agent, characterized by their mode of administration via the airways. The invention is also directed toward the applications which follow from this novel mode of administration, in particular for imaging the lungs, and the diagnosis or prognosis of pathological pulmonary conditions. In the therapeutic field, the applications envisioned are those of radiosensitizing or radioactive agents for radiotherapy (and optionally curietherapy), or for neutron therapy, or of agents for PDT (photodynamic therapy), in particular for the treatment of lung tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I, Nano-H, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique—CNRS, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Universite de Bordeaux
    Inventors: Yannick Cremillieux, Andrea Bianchi, Sandrine Dufort, Jean-Luc Coll, Francois Lux, Olivier Tillement
  • Patent number: 11512003
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synthesizing ultrasmall silica nanoparticles, useful in particular for diagnostics and/or therapy. More specifically, a method for synthesizing silica nanoparticles, said method comprising the mixing of at least one silane which is negatively charged at physiological pH with at least one silane which is neutral at physiological pH, and/or at least one silane which is positively charged at physiological pH, wherein: —the molar ratio A of neutral silane(s) to negatively charged silane(s) is defined as follows: 0?A?6, —the molar ratio B of positively charged silane(s) to negatively charged silane(s) is defined as follows: 0?B?5, —the molar ratio C of neutral and positively charged silanes to negatively charged silane(s) is defined as follows: 0<C?8. The invention also relates to the obtained ultrasmall silica nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: NH THERAGUIX, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre National de La Recherche Gantifote—CNRS—
    Inventors: François Lux, Olivier Tillement, Fabien Rossetti, Vivek Thakare, Vu Long Tran
  • Patent number: 11497818
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel biocompatible hybrid nanoparticles of very small size, useful in particular for diagnostics and/or therapy. The purpose of the invention is to offer novel nanoparticles which are useful in particular as contrast agents in imaging (e.g. MRI) and/or in other diagnostic techniques and/or as therapeutic agents, which give better performance than the known nanoparticles of the same type and which combine both a small size (for example less than 20 nm) and a high loading with metals (e.g. rare earths), in particular so as to have, in imaging (e.g. MRI), strong intensification and a correct response (increased relaxivity) at high frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: NANOH, UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON
    Inventors: François Lux, Olivier Tillement, Maxime Saint Jean, Pierre Mowat, Pascal Perriat, Stéphane Roux, Anna Mignot
  • Publication number: 20220288206
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for treating tumours. In particular, the invention relates to a new therapeutic use of nanoparticles as a sensitiser agent to radiofrequency radiation. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of nanoparticles in combination with radiofrequency radiations for the treatment of tumours, the radiofrequencies inducing hyperthermia of said tumour comprising the nanoparticles in the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Victor TIMOSHENKO, Alexander KHARIN, Volodymyn LYSENKO, Simon CHAMPAGNE, François LUX, Paul ROCCHI, Olivier TILLEMENT
  • Publication number: 20220249711
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for treating tumors. In particular, the disclosure relates to a method of treating a tumor by ionizing radiations in a subject in need thereof, said method comprising the steps of: (i) injecting a first therapeutically effective amount of high-Z element containing nanoparticles as radiosensitizing agents in said subject in need thereof within a period between 2 and 7 days prior to the first irradiation of the tumor, (ii) injecting a second therapeutically effective amount of the same or different high-Z element containing nanoparticles within a period between 1 hour to 12 hours prior to the first irradiation of the tumor, and, (iii) irradiating the tumor of said subject with a therapeutically efficient dose of radiations; wherein said high-Z element containing nanoparticles are nanoparticles containing an element with an atomic Z number higher than 40 and said nanoparticles have a mean hydrodynamic diameter below 10 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Olivier TILLEMENT, François LUX, Sandrine DUFORT, Camille VERRY, Géraldine LEDUC
  • Publication number: 20220118164
    Abstract: The invention concerns the field of medical devices, more particularly devices for joint extraction, within an organism, of at least one metal cation and at least one target molecule. In order to do this, the device comprises: a) at least one ligand exhibiting specific affinity for the target molecule; b) at least one means for extraction of the metal cation, said means being a perfusion fluid comprising at least one chelating agent, the perfusion fluid being contained in a dialysis or microdialysis system. The use of these devices makes it possible, for example, to prevent and/or treat pathologies linked to dysregulation of the homeostasis of metals and/or target molecules in the organism, for example neurological diseases and/or proteinopathies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Olivier TILLEMENT, François LUX, Marie VICTOR, Denise BECHET, Marco NATUZZI, Jules Tillement, Thomas BRICHART
  • Publication number: 20210205213
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical devices, more particularly to devices for extracting metals from an organism. The use of these devices makes it possible, for example, to prevent and/or treat pathologies linked to dysregulation of metal homeostasis in the organism, for example neurological diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT, Yannick CREMILLEUX, Thomas BRICHART, Sébastien GROYER
  • Publication number: 20210128730
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for treating tumors. In particular, the invention provides novel use of nanoparticles in combination with ionizing radiations for treating tumors, wherein the combined effect of nanoparticles induces senescence and/or cannibalism of the tumor cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT, Jean-Luc PERFETTINI, Eric DEUTSCH, Frédéric LAW, Awatef ALLOUCH
  • Patent number: 10987435
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel biocompatible hybrid nanoparticles of very small size, useful in particular for diagnostics and/or therapy. The purpose of the invention is to offer novel nanoparticles which are useful in particular as contrast agents in imaging (e.g. MRI) and/or in other diagnostic techniques and/or as therapeutic agents, which give better performance than the known nanoparticles of the same type and which combine both a small size (for example less than 20 nm) and a high loading with metals (e.g. rare earths), in particular so as to have, in imaging (e.g. MRI), strong intensification and a correct response (increased relaxivity) at high frequencies. The method for the production of these nanoparticles and the applications thereof in imaging and in therapy also form part of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, NANOH
    Inventors: François Lux, Olivier Tillement, Maxime Saint Jean, Pierre Mowat, Pascal Perriat, Stéphane Roux, Anna Mignot
  • Publication number: 20210078867
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synthesizing ultrasmall silica nanoparticles, useful in particular for diagnostics and/or therapy. More specifically, a method for synthesizing silica nanoparticles, said method comprising the mixing of at least one silane which is negatively charged at physiological pH with at least one silane which is neutral at physiological pH, and/or at least one silane which is positively charged at physiological pH, wherein: —the molar ratio A of neutral silane(s) to negatively charged silane(s) is defined as follows: 0?A?6, —the molar ratio B of positively charged silane(s) to negatively charged silane(s) is defined as follows: 0?B?5, —the molar ratio C of neutral and positively charged silanes to negatively charged silane(s) is defined as follows: 0<C?8. The invention also relates to the obtained ultrasmall silica nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: François LUX, Olivier TILLEMENT, Fabien ROSSETI, Vivek THAKARE, Vu Long TRAN