Patents by Inventor Hugo O. Villar

Hugo O. Villar 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: 7297696
    Abstract: Compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephrtitis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection; pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds; and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignees: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 7029695
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using them. Lipid formulations of a glutathione analog and methods of manufacturing them. Their use to stimulate hematopoiesis, protect hematopoietic cells from damage caused by radiation or chemotherapy, or potentiate the stimulatory action of one or a combination of cytokines on colony formation by hematopoietic progenitor cells, protect a subject from a destructive effect of a chemotherapeutic agent or irradiation, or to potentiate the effect of a chemotherapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Telik, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Redelmeier, Lawrence M. Kauvar, Robert T. Lum, Matthew H. Lyttle, Robert W. Macsata, Steven R. Schow, Hugo O. Villar, Michael R. Kozlowski
  • Patent number: 6998407
    Abstract: Chemical compounds which are antagonists of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) function, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treatment employing these compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing these compounds. The compounds are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignees: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6992086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, uses of said compounds and compositions, methods of treatment employing said compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing said compounds. Specifically, this invention relates to novel compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection. More specifically, the invention is related to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Telik, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6962926
    Abstract: Compounds of formula A and formula B: and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, compositions comprising them, methods for their use, and their use in the preparation of medicaments. The compounds are antagonists of MCP-1 function, and are useful in the prevention and treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, and in the prevention and treatment of allergic hypersensitivity disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignees: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Wenli Ma, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Kunihisa Baba, Hideaki Inagaki, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Masayuki Okamoto, Takashi Nakamura, Atsushi Miyachi, Mitsuaki Takeuchi, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6894054
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions, and methods for inhibiting the glycine transporter 2 and for inhibiting glycine transporter mediated neuronal activity. These compounds are particularly useful for treating diseases of the nerve and muscle, including psychoses, pain, epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, head trauma, multiple sclerosis and the like, and of muscle disorders, including diseases or conditions associated with increased muscle contraction, such as spasticity and myoclonus. In addition, the compounds may be used to discover other agents with improved activity in assays in which the compounds of the invention are active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Telik, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Hugo O. Villar
  • Patent number: 6809113
    Abstract: Compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection; pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds; and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignees: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20040198719
    Abstract: Compounds of formula A and formula B: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise M. Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Wenli Ma, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Kunihisa Baba, Hideaki Inagaki, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Masayuki Okamoto, Takashi Nakamura, Atsushi Miyachi, Mitsuaki Takeuchi, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6792355
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for separating two or more subsets of polypeptides within a set of polypeptides. The method includes the steps of: (a) determining a sequence comparison signature for each amino acid sequence in a set of amino acid sequences, wherein the sequence comparison signature includes pairwise comparison scores for the amino acid sequence compared to each of the other amino acid sequences in the set; (b) constructing a distance arrangement including the sequence comparison signatures related according to the distance between each of the sequence comparison signatures; and (c) identifying a first and second cluster of sequence comparison signatures in the distance arrangement, wherein the first cluster includes sequence comparison signatures for polypeptides having a similar protein fold or biological function, the protein fold or function being different compared to a protein fold or function of polypeptides having sequence comparison signatures in the second cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Triad Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark R. Hansen, Richard Kho, Hugo O. Villar
  • Publication number: 20040127513
    Abstract: Chemical compounds which are antagonists of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) function, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treatment employing these compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing these compounds. The compounds are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicants: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven A. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20040077680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, uses of said compounds and compositions, methods of treatment employing said compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing said compounds. Specifically, this invention relates to novel compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection. More specifically, the invention is related to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicants: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6677365
    Abstract: Chemical compounds which are antagonists of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) function, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treatment employing these compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing these compounds. The compounds are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignees: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6670364
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, uses of said compounds and compositions, methods of treatment employing said compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing said compounds. Specifically, this invention relates to novel compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection. More specifically, the invention is related to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignees: Telik, Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20030134326
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for separating two or more subsets of polypeptides within a set of polypeptides. The method includes the steps of: (a) determining a sequence comparison signature for each amino acid sequence in a set of amino acid sequences, wherein the sequence comparison signature includes pairwise comparison scores for the amino acid sequence compared to each of the other amino acid sequences in the set; (b) constructing a distance arrangement including the sequence comparison signatures related according to the distance between each of the sequence comparison signatures; and (c) identifying a first and second cluster of sequence comparison signatures in the distance arrangement, wherein the first cluster includes sequence comparison signatures for polypeptides having a similar protein fold or biological function, the protein fold or function being different compared to a protein fold or function of polypeptides having sequence comparison signatures in the second cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Mark R. Hansen, Richard Kho, Hugo O. Villar
  • Publication number: 20030105085
    Abstract: Compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection; pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds; and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20030100511
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using them. Lipid formulations of a glutathione analog and methods of manufacturing them. Their use to stimulate hematopoiesis, protect hematopoietic cells from damage caused by radiation or chemotherapy, or potentiate the stimulatory action of one or a combination of cytokines on colony formation by hematopoietic progenitor cells, protect a subject from a destructive effect of a chemotherapeutic agent or irradiation, or to potentiate the effect of a chemotherapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Lawrence M. Kauvar, Robert T. Lum, Matthew H. Lyttle, Robert W. Macsata, Steven R. Schow, Hugo O. Villar, Michael R. Kozlowski
  • Publication number: 20030096705
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, uses of said compounds and compositions, methods of treatment employing said compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing said compounds. Specifically, this invention relates to novel compounds which are antagonists of MCP-1 function and are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection. More specifically, the invention is related to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20030092728
    Abstract: Chemical compounds which are antagonists of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) function, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treatment employing these compounds and compositions, and processes for preparing these compounds. The compounds are useful in the prevention or treatment of chronic or acute inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, especially those associated with aberrant lymphocyte or monocyte accumulation such as arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, Orohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis, psoriasis, restenosis, and transplant rejection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Edgardo Laborde, Louise Robinson, Fanying Meng, Brian T. Peterson, Hugo O. Villar, Steven E. Anuskiewicz, Yoshiro Ishiwata, Shoji Yokochi, Yukiharu Matsumoto, Takuji Kakigami, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahito Jomori, Kouji Matsushima
  • Patent number: RE38915
    Abstract: Modulation of the activity of the insulin receptor, enhancement of glucose uptake by cells, and other effects significant in the control and management of diabetes are accomplished using compounds of the formula wherein each A is independently a proton-accepting substituent; each R is independently a noninterfering substituent; n is 0, 1, or 2; and each linker is independently an isostere of —NHCONH— or of —N?N— or of —NHCO—. Compounds in the genus of Formula (1) can also be used for structure activity studies to identify features responsible for the relevant activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Telik, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Sportsman, Hugo O. Villar, Lawrence M. Kauvar, Wayne R. Spevak
  • Patent number: RE39866
    Abstract: Modulation of the activity of the insulin receptor, enhancement of glucose uptake by cells, and other effects significant in the control and management of diabetes are accomplished using compounds of the formula wherein each A is independently a proton-accepting substituent; each R is independently a noninterfering substituent; n is 0, 1, or 2; and each linker is independently an isostere of —NHCONH— or of —N?N— or of —NHCO—. Compounds in the genus of Formula (1) can also be used for structure activity studies to identify features responsible for the relevant activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Telik, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Sportsman, Hugo O. Villar, Lawrence M Kauvar, Wayne R Spevak