Patents by Inventor Harold David Gunn

Harold David Gunn 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: 20240091277
    Abstract: Therapeutic modalities are provided involving the use of specific repertoirs of PRR ligands to ameliorate immune dysregulation in a perioperative period. In effect, innate immune system signaling is provoked in the perioperative period so as to facilitate a targeted immune response following surgery. Subjects may accordingly be treated with immunogenic formulations tailored to a specific target tissue to treat a subject during the perioperative period surrounding surgery to remove a solid tumor, where the target tissue is the site of the tumor or a characteristic site of metastasis for the cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Shirin Kalyan, Michael Alex Ander Kennedy, Rebecca Ann Craufurd Auer, Christiano Tanese De Souza, Ting Ting Alice Lau
  • Publication number: 20240091330
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Patent number: 11819543
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Qu Biologics Inc.
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Publication number: 20220236284
    Abstract: The invention provides therapeutic compositions that present an artificial repertoire of mammalian pattern recognition receptor (PRR) agonists, so that the pattern of PRR agonists recapitulates a distinct portion of a PRR agonist signature of a mammalian pathogen. The artificial repertoire of PRR agonists may be formulated together in a therapeutic vehicle for combined presentation to an innate immune cell resident in a target tissue in a mammalian host, and the vehicle adapted to deliver the PRR agonists to the target tissue, so as to modulate an immune response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, David W. Mullins, Shirin Kalyan, Momir Bosiljcic, Monan Angela Zhang, Mark Bazett, Marcel Thalen, Dermot McGovern, Boyko Traychev Kabakchiev, Ho Pan Sham
  • Patent number: 11226340
    Abstract: The invention provides therapeutic compositions that present an artificial repertoire of mammalian pattern recognition receptor (PRR) agonists, so that the pattern of PRR agonists recapitulates a distinct portion of a PRR agonist signature of a mammalian pathogen. The artificial repertoire of PRR agonists may be formulated together in a therapeutic vehicle for combined presentation to an innate immune cell resident in a target tissue in a mammalian host, and the vehicle adapted to deliver the PRR agonists to the target tissue, so as to modulate an immune response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Qu Biologics Inc.
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, David W. Mullins, Shirin Kalyan, Momir Bosiljcic, Monan Angela Zhang, Mark Bazett, Marcel Thalen, Dermot McGovern, Boyko Traychev Kabakchiev, Ho Pan Sham
  • Publication number: 20210138057
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Patent number: 10946083
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Qu Biologies Inc.
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Publication number: 20210052645
    Abstract: Therapeutic modalities are provided for targeting adoptive cellular therapies to specific sites of disease, involving the use of specific repertoirs of PRR ligands. In effect, innate immune system signaling is provoked so as to facilitate the homing of adoptive immune cells to sites of disease, for example to the site of a solid tumor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, David W. Mullins, Mark Bazett, Shirin Kalyan
  • Publication number: 20200121784
    Abstract: The invention provides in part methods of treating cancers of a specific organ or tissue by administering a composition that is antigenically specific for one or more microbes that are pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue in which the cancer is situated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventor: Harold David Gunn
  • Publication number: 20200113989
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating inflammation in a specific organ or tissue of an individual. The method involves determining whether the individual has previously been infected with at least one pathogen that is pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue; and administering to the individual an anti-inflammatory composition comprising antigenic determinants, the antigenic determinants selected or formulated so that together they are specific for the at least one pathogen. The pathogen may be an endogenous or exogenous pathogen, and may further be a bacterial pathogen, a viral pathogen, a fungal pathogen, a protozoan pathogen, or a helminth pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, Brett Anthony Premack, Michael Tak Huai Chow
  • Publication number: 20190247484
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Publication number: 20190134172
    Abstract: The invention provides therapeutic compositions that present an artificial repertoire of mammalian pattern recognition receptor (PRR) agonists, so that the pattern of PRR agonists recapitulates a distinct portion of a PRR agonist signature of a mammalian pathogen. The artificial repertoire of PRR agonists may be formulated together in a therapeutic vehicle for combined presentation to an innate immune cell resident in a target tissue in a mammalian host, and the vehicle adapted to deliver the PRR agonists to the target tissue, so as to modulate an immune response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, David W. Mullins, Shirin Kalyan, Momir Bosiljcic, Monan Angela Zhang, Mark Bazett, Marcel Thalen, Dermot McGovern, Boyko Traychev Kabakchiev, Ho Pan Sham
  • Patent number: 10251946
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Qu Biologics Inc.
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Patent number: 10130692
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of formulating an anti-inflammatory composition for treating inflammatory conditions in a specific organ or tissue. The method involves selecting at least one pathogen that is pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue; producing an antigenic composition comprising antigenic determinants that together are specific for the pathogen; and formulating the antigenic composition for administration as an anti-inflammatory composition capable of eliciting an anti-inflammatory response in the specific organ or tissue. In embodiments of the invention the pathogen may be an endogenous pathogen, such as an endogenous bacterial pathogen. The pathogen may be an exogenous pathogen, such as a bacterial pathogen, viral pathogen, a fungal pathogen, or a helminth pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Qu Biologics Inc.
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, Brett Anthony Premack, Michael Tak Huai Chow
  • Patent number: 10086066
    Abstract: The invention provides in part methods of treating cancers of a specific organ or tissue by administering a composition that is antigenically specific for one or more microbes that are pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue in which the cancer is situated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Qu Biologics Inc.
    Inventor: Harold David Gunn
  • Publication number: 20180050099
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating inflammation in a specific organ or tissue of an individual. The method involves determining whether the individual has previously been infected with at least one pathogen that is pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue; and administering to the individual an anti-inflammatory composition comprising antigenic determinants, the antigenic determinants selected or formulated so that together they are specific for the at least one pathogen. The pathogen may be an endogenous or exogenous pathogen, and may further be a bacterial pathogen, a viral pathogen, a fungal pathogen, a protozoan pathogen, or a helminth pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, Brett Anthony Premack, Michael Tak Huai Chow
  • Publication number: 20170368166
    Abstract: The invention provides in part methods of treating cancers of a specific organ or tissue by administering a composition that is antigenically specific for one or more microbes that are pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue in which the cancer is situated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Harold David Gunn
  • Patent number: 9775896
    Abstract: The invention provides in part methods of treating cancers of a specific organ or tissue by administering a composition that is antigenically specific for one or more microbes that are pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue in which the cancer is situated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Qu Biologics Inc.
    Inventor: Harold David Gunn
  • Publication number: 20170087237
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of modulating an immune system in a vertebrate host for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infection by a first microbial pathogen in a target tissue, comprising administration at an administration site of an effective amount of an antigenic formulation comprising antigenic determinants specific for a second heterologous microbial pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Harold David Gunn, Salim Dhanji, David W. Mullins
  • Publication number: 20160263209
    Abstract: The invention provides in part methods of treating cancers of a specific organ or tissue by administering a composition that is antigenically specific for one or more microbes that are pathogenic in the specific organ or tissue in which the cancer is situated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Harold David Gunn