Patents by Inventor Joanna Clancy

Joanna Clancy 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).

  • Chemically modified peptides with improved immunogenicity
    Patent number: 8883172
    Abstract: The invention provides processes for improving the ability of a peptide to stimulate an immune response, comprising exposing the peptide to a chemical modifying agent. It further provides compositions comprising an antigenic peptide, wherein the peptide has been treated with a chemical modifying agent to improve its ability to stimulate an immune response. It also provides methods of stimulating an immune response in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of a vaccine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Health
    Inventors: Clifford Shone, Xiaomi Tong, Joanna Clancy, Mili Gu
  • CHEMICALLY MODIFIED PEPTIDES WITH IMPROVED IMMUNOGENICITY
    Publication number: 20100291152
    Abstract: The invention provides processes for improving the ability of a peptide to stimulate an immune response, comprising exposing the peptide to a chemical modifying agent. It further provides compositions comprising an antigenic peptide, wherein the peptide has been treated with a chemical modifying agent to improve its ability to stimulate an immune response. It also provides methods of stimulating an immune response in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of a vaccine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Clifford Shone, Xiaomi Tong, Joanna Clancy, Mili Gu
  • 4-SUBSTITUTED 2-ARYLOXYPHENOL DERIVATIVES AS ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS
    Publication number: 20070054884
    Abstract: Antimicrobial compounds, compositions and methods of treatment administering same, of 2-aryloxyphenol derivatives having heterocyclic groups or highly polar functional groups substituted at position 4 of the phenolic ring, as well as methods for their preparation and formation, wherein the compounds are generally of Formula 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Liren Huang, Joanna Clancy, Alenka Tomazic, Weitong Wang, Christopher Taylor, W. Jackson, Yufa Liu
  • 2-(2 Or 4-substituted aryloxy)-phenol derivatives as antibacterial agents
    Publication number: 20060211697
    Abstract: Antimicrobial compounds, compositions and methods of treatment administering same, of 2-aryloxyphenol derivatives having a heterocyclic or polar functional substitution attached through a N—C or C—C bond at the position para or ortho relative to oxygen bridge on non-phenolic phenyl ring, as well as methods for their preparation and formation, wherein the compounds are generally of Formula 1 and Formula 2:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Liren Huang, Joanna Clancy, Alenka Tomazic, Weitong Wang, Christopher Taylor, W. Jackson
  • Substituted 1-benzazepines and derivatives thereof
    Publication number: 20050234041
    Abstract: This invention relates to substituted 1-benzazepines and derivatives thereof useful as anti-infective agents, to compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising such compounds, to processes for making these compounds and to methods of using these compounds for killing bacteria and other microorganisms or inhibiting bacterial and other microorganism growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Alenka Tomazic, Huang Liren, Joanna Clancy
  • Novel compositions comprising 2,2-Bis (4-hydroxy-3-methylphenyl) heptane and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20030216479
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to anti-microbial compositions comprising 2,2-Bis(4-hydroxy-3-methylphenyl)heptane and use of the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Liren Huang, Alenka Tomazic, Joanna Clancy, Vito M. Esposito
  • Pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of disorders caused by helicobacter pylori or other spiral urease-positive gram-negative bacteria
    Patent number: 5750535
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method treating or preventing disorders caused by a spiral urease-positive gram-negative bacterium such as Helicobacter pylori in mammals, including humans, using compounds that are substance P receptor antagonists and, specifically, using certain quinuclidine derivatives, piperidine derivatives, pyrrolidine derivatives, azanorbornane derivatives, ethylene diamine derivatives and related compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventor: Joanna Clancy