Patents by Inventor Kaspar BINZ

Kaspar BINZ 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: 20230340698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues, as well as to proteins comprising such a designed ankyrin repeat domain, nucleic acids encoding such domains or proteins, methods of preparing such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins or nucleic acids, and the use of such proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hans Kaspar BINZ, Johannes SCHILLING, Patrik FORRER, Victor LEVITSKY, Natalia VENETZ, Marcel WALSER
  • Publication number: 20230243070
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing recombinant binding proteins with binding specificity for a peptide-MHC (pMHC) complex. The invention also relates to recombinant binding proteins comprising one, two or more designed repeat domain(s), preferably designed ankyrin repeat domain(s), with binding specificity for a pMHC complex, and to such binding proteins which further comprise a binding agent having binding specificity for a protein expressed on the surface of an immune cell, preferably a T-cell. In addition, the invention relates to nucleic acids encoding such binding proteins or repeat domains, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding proteins or nucleic acids, and the use of such binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in methods for treating or diagnosing diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Victor LEVITSKY, Natalia VENETZ, Marcel WALSER, Hans Kaspar BINZ, Johannes SCHILLING, Patrik FORRER
  • Patent number: 11578427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues, as well as to proteins comprising such a designed ankyrin repeat domain, nucleic acids encoding such domains or proteins, methods of preparing such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins or nucleic acids, and the use of such proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MOLECULAR PARTNERS AG
    Inventors: Hans Kaspar Binz, Johannes Schilling, Patrik Forrer, Victor Levitsky, Natalia Venetz, Marcel Walser
  • Patent number: 11332501
    Abstract: New designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, recombinant binding proteins comprising at least two designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, as well as recombinant binding proteins comprising at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), and at least two designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such designed ankyrin repeat domains and recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MOLECULAR PARTNERS AG
    Inventors: Talitha Bakker, Michael T. Stumpp, Hans Kaspar Binz, Douglas Phillips, Ignacio Dolado, Patrik Forrer, Frieder W. Merz, Ivo Sonderegger, Daniel Steiner, Maya Gulotti-Georgieva, Johan Abram Saliba
  • Publication number: 20220106707
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing recombinant binding proteins with binding specificity for a peptide-MHC (pMHC) complex. The invention also relates to recombinant binding proteins comprising one, two or more designed repeat domain(s), preferably designed ankyrin repeat domain(s), with binding specificity for a pMHC complex, and to such binding proteins which further comprise a binding agent having binding specificity for a protein expressed on the surface of an immune cell, preferably a T-cell. In addition, the invention relates to nucleic acids encoding such binding proteins or repeat domains, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding proteins or nucleic acids, and the use of such binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in methods for treating or diagnosing diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Victor LEVITSKY, Natalia VENETZ, Marcel WALSER, Kaspar BINZ, Johannes SCHILLING, Patrik FORRER
  • Publication number: 20220064234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues, as well as to proteins comprising such a designed ankyrin repeat domain, nucleic acids encoding such domains or proteins, methods of preparing such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins or nucleic acids, and the use of such proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kaspar BINZ, Johannes SCHILLING, Patrik FORRER, Victor LEVITSKY, Natalia VENETZ, Marcel WALSER
  • Publication number: 20210069293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binding proteins specific for VEGF-A, in particular to recombinant binding proteins comprising a polyethylene glycol moiety and a binding domain, which inhibits VEGF-Axxx binding to VEGFR-2. Examples of such recombinant binding proteins are proteins which comprise an ankyrin repeat domain with the desired binding specificity, and a polyethylene glycol moiety. The binding proteins are useful in the treatment of cancer and other pathological conditions, e.g. eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hans Kaspar BINZ, Patrik FORRER, Michael Tobias STUMPP
  • Patent number: 10646542
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binding proteins specific for VEGF-A, in particular to recombinant binding proteins comprising a polyethylene glycol moiety and a binding domain, which inhibits VEGF-Axxx binding to VEGFR-2. Examples of such recombinant binding proteins are proteins which comprise an ankyrin repeat domain with the desired binding specificity, and a polyethylene glycol moiety. The binding proteins are useful in the treatment of cancer and other pathological conditions, e.g. eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventors: Hans Kaspar Binz, Patrik Forrer, Michael Tobias Stumpp
  • Publication number: 20190263869
    Abstract: New designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, recombinant binding proteins comprising at least two designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, as well as recombinant binding proteins comprising at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), and at least two designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such designed ankyrin repeat domains and recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Talitha Bakker, Michael T. Stumpp, Hans Kaspar Binz, Douglas Phillips, Ignacio Dolado, Patrik Forrer, Frieder W. Merz, Ivo Sonderegger, Daniel Steiner, Maya Gulotti-Georgieva, Johan Abram Saliba
  • Patent number: 10322190
    Abstract: Improved N-terminal capping modules for designed Ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) conferring improved thermal stability to the DARPins are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins and the use of such proteins in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventor: Hans Kaspar Binz
  • Patent number: 10155791
    Abstract: New designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, recombinant binding proteins comprising at least two designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, as well as recombinant binding proteins comprising at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), and at least two designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such designed ankyrin repeat domains and recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventors: Talitha Bakker, Michael T. Stumpp, Hans Kaspar Binz, Douglas Phillips, Ignacio Dolado, Patrik Forrer, Frieder W. Merz, Ivo Sonderegger, Daniel Steiner, Maya Gulotti-Georgieva, Johan Abram Saliba
  • Publication number: 20180125932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binding proteins specific for VEGF-A, in particular to recombinant binding proteins comprising a polyethylene glycol moiety and a binding domain, which inhibits VEGF-Axxx binding to VEGFR-2. Examples of such recombinant binding proteins are proteins which comprise an ankyrin repeat domain with the desired binding specificity, and a polyethylene glycol moiety. The binding proteins are useful in the treatment of cancer and other pathological conditions, e.g. eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: HANS KASPAR BINZ, PATRIK FORRER, MICHAEL TOBIAS STUMPP
  • Patent number: 9849158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binding proteins specific for VEGF-A, in particular to recombinant binding proteins comprising a polyethylene glycol moiety and a binding domain, which inhibits VEGF-Axxx binding to VEGFR-2. Examples of such recombinant binding proteins are proteins which comprise an ankyrin repeat domain with the desired binding specificity, and a polyethylene glycol moiety. The binding proteins are useful in the treatment of cancer and other pathological conditions, e.g. eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventors: Hans Kaspar Binz, Patrik Forrer, Michael Tobias Stumpp
  • Publication number: 20170313748
    Abstract: Improved N-terminal capping modules for designed Ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) conferring improved thermal stability to the DARPins are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins and the use of such proteins in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Hans Kaspar BINZ
  • Patent number: 9775912
    Abstract: New designed repeat proteins with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such serum albumin binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins, the use of such proteins to modify the pharmacokinetics of therapeutic relevant polypeptides and the use of such proteins in the treatment of diseases. The repeat proteins of the invention have a substantially increased half-life in plasma compared to proteins not binding serum albumin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventors: Daniel Steiner, Hans Kaspar Binz, Maya Gulotti-Georgieva, Frieder W. Merz, Douglas Phillips, Ivo Sonderegger
  • Patent number: 9717802
    Abstract: Improved N-terminal capping modules for designed Ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) conferring improved thermal stability to the DARPins are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such proteins and the use of such proteins in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventor: Hans Kaspar Binz
  • Patent number: 9657287
    Abstract: A repeat protein from a collection of repeat proteins, wherein each repeat protein of said collection comprises a repeat domain, which comprises a set of consecutive repeat modules, wherein the repeat modules have the same fold and stack tightly to create a superhelical structure having a joint hydrophobic core, wherein each of the repeat modules is derived from one or more repeat units and wherein the repeat units comprise framework residues, which contribute to the folding topology of the repeat unit or contribute to an interaction with a neighboring repeat unit, and target interaction residues, which contribute to an interaction with a target substance, wherein the repeat proteins of the collection differ from other repeat proteins in the collection in at least one amino acid position of the repeat modules is described as are related pharmaceuticals and nucleic acid molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Universitat Zurich
    Inventors: Michael Tobias Stumpp, Patrik Forrer, Hans Kaspar Binz, Andreas Pluckthun
  • Publication number: 20160362453
    Abstract: New designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, recombinant binding proteins comprising at least two designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, as well as recombinant binding proteins comprising at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), and at least two designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such designed ankyrin repeat domains and recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Talitha BAKKER, Michael T. STUMPP, Hans Kaspar BINZ, Douglas PHILLIPS, Ignacio DOLADO, Patrik FORRER, Frieder W. MERZ, Ivo SONDEREGGER, Daniel STEINER, Maya GULOTTI-GEORGIEVA, Johan ABRAM SALIBA
  • Publication number: 20160289285
    Abstract: New designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, recombinant binding proteins comprising at least two designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, as well as recombinant binding proteins comprising at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), and at least two designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such designed ankyrin repeat domains and recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Talitha BAKKER, Michael T. STUMPP, Hans Kaspar BINZ, Douglas PHILLIPS, Ignacio DOLADO, Patrik FORRER, Frieder W. MERZ, Ivo SONDEREGGER, Daniel STEINER, Maya GULOTTI-GEORGIEVA, Johan ABRAM SALIBA
  • Patent number: 9458211
    Abstract: New designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, recombinant binding proteins comprising at least two designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for serum albumin, as well as recombinant binding proteins comprising at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), at least one designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A), and at least two designed ankyrin repeat domain with binding specificity for serum albumin are described, as well as nucleic acids encoding such designed ankyrin repeat domains and recombinant binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins or nucleic acids and the use of such designed ankyrin repeat domains, recombinant binding proteins, nucleic acids or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Molecular Partners AG
    Inventors: Talitha Bakker, Michael T. Stumpp, Hans Kaspar Binz, Douglas Phillips, Ignacio Dolado, Patrik Forrer, Frieder W. Merz, Ivo Sonderegger, Daniel Steiner, Maya Gulotti-Georgieva, Johan Abram Saliba