Patent number: 9815846
Abstract: The present invention is directed to six membered heteroaryl benzamide compounds of formula (I), which are tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, and hence are useful in the treatment of pain, inflammation, cancer, restenosis, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, thrombosis, a disease, disorder, injury, or malfunction relating to dysmyelination or demyelination or a disease or disorder associated with abnormal activities of nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor TrkA.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 2015
Date of Patent:
November 14, 2017
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Inventors:
Helen Mitchell, Mark E. Fraley, Andrew J. Cooke, Craig A. Stump, Yi-Heng Chen, Xu-Fang Zhang, Casey C. McComas, Kathy Schirripa, Melody McWherter, Swati P. Mercer, Kerim Babaoglu, Dongfang Meng, Jane Wu, Ping Liu, Harold B. Wood, Jianming Bao, Chun Sing Li, Qinghua Mao, Zhiqi Qi