Patents by Inventor Kayvon Modjarrad
Kayvon Modjarrad 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).
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Patent number: 12208136Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of RNA to prevent or treat coronavirus infection. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and agents for vaccination against coronavirus infection and inducing effective coronavirus antigen-specific immune responses such as antibody and/or T cell responses. Specifically, in one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to methods comprising administering to a subject RNA encoding a peptide or protein comprising an epitope of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S protein) for inducing an immune response against coronavirus S protein, in particular S protein of SARS-CoV-2, in the subject, i.e., vaccine RNA encoding vaccine antigen.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: BioNTech SEInventors: Alexander Muik, Kena Anne Swanson, Qi Yang, Hui Cai, Ugur Sahin, Kayvon Modjarrad
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Publication number: 20240366751Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of RNA to prevent or treat coronavirus infection. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and agents for vaccination against coronavirus infection and inducing effective coronavirus antigen-specific immune responses such as antibody and/or T cell responses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Alexander Muik, Asaf Poran, Kena Anne Swanson, Qi Yang, Hui Cai, Ugur Sahin, Kayvon Modjarrad
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Publication number: 20240101645Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to monoclonal antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind to coronavirus spike proteins, including the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. These antibodies demonstrate high affinity binding to epitopes on the coronavirus spike protein and/or broad cross-reactivity to the spike protein of various coronaviruses. Compositions comprising the anti-coronavirus antibodies, nucleic acids encoding for the antibodies, recombinant expression vectors, and host cells are also disclosed. The present disclosure is also directed to methods of diagnosing, preventing or treating coronavirus infections, including infections or disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shelly KREBS, Kayvon MODJARRAD, Nelson MICHAEL, Vincent DUSSUPT, Gina C. DONOFRIO, Samantha TOWNSLEY
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Patent number: 11884718Abstract: The invention described herein provides antibodies to Zika virus. The novel polypeptides are useful alone or as portions of larger molecules, such as antibodies or antibody fragments, that can be used to treat or prevent infection of Zika virus.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., The Beth Israeli Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., The Government Of The United States As Represented By The Secretary Of The ArmyInventors: Shelly Krebs, Gina Donofrio, Vincent Dussupt, Kayvon Modjarrad, Dan Barouch, Richard G. Jarman, III, Nelson L. Michael, Gordon Joyce, Rajeshwer Singh Sankhala, Kathryn Elaine Stephenson
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Patent number: 11878055Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of RNA to prevent or treat coronavirus infection. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and agents for vaccination against coronavirus infection and inducing effective coronavirus antigen-specific immune responses such as antibody and/or T cell responses.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BioNTech SEInventors: Alexander Muik, Kena Anne Swanson, Qi Yang, Hui Cai, Ugur Sahin, Kayvon Modjarrad
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Publication number: 20240000921Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of RNA to prevent or treat coronavirus infection. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and agents for vaccination against coronavirus infection and inducing effective coronavirus antigen-specific immune responses such as antibody and/or T cell responses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Alexander Muik, Asaf Poran, Kena Anne Swanson, Qi Yang, Hui Cai, Ugur Sahin, Kayvon Modjarrad
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Publication number: 20230331823Abstract: Disclosed herein are shark-derived antibodies and binding molecules with high binding affinity for SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the use thereof. Some of the shark-derived antibodies and binding molecules also demonstrate cross-reactivity with and neutralization of other related sarbecoviruses. The complementarity determining region (CDR) sequences and binding characteristics for these antibodies and binding molecules are provided. Also disclosed are the use of these antibodies and binding molecules to detect SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or other related sarbecoviruses or to prevent or treat SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or other related sarbecovirus infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Michael Gordon JOYCE, Kayvon MODJARRAD, Helen DOOLEY, Agnes HAJDUCZKI, Wei-Hung CHEN
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Publication number: 20230285539Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of vaccines and binding molecules, as well as preparations and methods of their use in the treatment and/or prevention of disease. Described are vaccines and binding molecules, compositions containing the same, and uses thereof for treating or preventing coronavirus infections, in particular, ?-coronaviruses such as SARS- CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, as well as SARS-CoV-1 and other coronaviruses.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicants: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Michael Gordon JOYCE, Kayvon MODJARRAD
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Publication number: 20210238262Abstract: The invention described herein provides antibodies to Zika virus. The novel polypeptides are useful alone or as portions of larger molecules, such as antibodies or antibody fragments, that can be used to treat or prevent infection of Zika virus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicants: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., The Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Shelly Krebs, Gina Donofrio, Vincent Dussupt, Kayvon Modjarrad, Dan Barouch, Richard G. Jarman, III, Nelson L. Michael, Gordon Joyce
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Patent number: 10759846Abstract: Methods of inducing an immune response in a subject to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are provided. In several embodiments, the immune response is a protective immune response that inhibits or prevents MERS-CoV infection in the subject. Recombinant MERS-CoV polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding same are also provided. Additionally, neutralizing antibodies that specifically bind to MERS-CoV S protein and antigen binding fragments thereof are disclosed. The antibodies and antigen binding fragments are useful, for example, in methods of detecting MERS-CoV S protein in a sample or in a subject, as well as methods of preventing and treating a MERS-CoV infection in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: The U.S.A., as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Barney Graham, Wing-Pui Kong, Kayvon Modjarrad, Lingshu Wang, Wei Shi, Michael Gordon Joyce, Masaru Kanekiyo, John Mascola
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Publication number: 20190256579Abstract: Methods of inducing an immune response in a subject to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are provided. In several embodiments, the immune response is a protective immune response that inhibits or prevents MERS-CoV infection in the subject. Recombinant MERS-CoV polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding same are also provided. Additionally, neutralizing antibodies that specifically bind to MERS-CoV S protein and antigen binding fragments thereof are disclosed. The antibodies and antigen binding fragments are useful, for example, in methods of detecting MERS-CoV S protein in a sample or in a subject, as well as methods of preventing and treating a MERS-CoV infection in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: The U.S.A., as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Barney Graham, Wing-Pui Kong, Kayvon Modjarrad, Lingshu Wang, Wei Shi, Michael Gordon Joyce, Masaru Kanekiyo, John Mascola
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Patent number: 10301377Abstract: Methods of inducing an immune response in a subject to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are provided. In several embodiments, the immune response is a protective immune response that inhibits or prevents MERS-CoV infection in the subject. Recombinant MERS-CoV polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding same are also provided. Additionally, neutralizing antibodies that specifically bind to MERS-CoV S protein and antigen binding fragments thereof are disclosed. The antibodies and antigen binding fragments are useful, for example, in methods of detecting MERS-CoV S protein in a sample or in a subject, as well as methods of preventing and treating a MERS-CoV infection in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Barney Graham, Wing-Pui Kong, Kayvon Modjarrad, Lingshu Wang, Wei Shi, Michael Gordon Joyce, Masaru Kanekiyo, John Mascola
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Publication number: 20180244756Abstract: Methods of inducing an immune response in a subject to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are provided. In several embodiments, the immune response is a protective immune response that inhibits or prevents MERS-CoV infection in the subject. Recombinant MERS-CoV polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding same are also provided. Additionally, neutralizing antibodies that specifically bind to MERS-CoV S protein and antigen binding fragments thereof are disclosed. The antibodies and antigen binding fragments are useful, for example, in methods of detecting MERS-CoV S protein in a sample or in a subject, as well as methods of preventing and treating a MERS-CoV infection in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Barney Graham, Wing-Pui Kong, Kayvon Modjarrad, Lingshu Wang, Wei Shi, Michael Gordon Joyce, Masaru Kanekiyo, John Mascola