Patents by Inventor Keiichi Masuya

Keiichi Masuya 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: 20100125064
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-heterocyclyl indolyl compounds capable of inhibiting the interaction between p53, or variants thereof, and MDM2 and/or MDM4, or variants thereof, respectively, said compounds having the formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, RA, Y and Y are as defined in the specification. Due to their activity, the compounds are useful in the treatment of various disorders and diseases mediated by the activity of MDM2 and/or MDM4, or variants thereof, such as inflammatory or proliferative diseases or in the protection of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Andreas Boettcher, Nicole Buschmann, Pascal Furet, Jean-Marc Groell, Jorg Kallen, Joanna Hergovich Lisztwan, Keiichi Masuya, Lorenz Mayr, Andrea Vaupel
  • Patent number: 7704996
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a 2-cyanopyrimidine compound of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and X are as defined in the specification and in the claims, in free form or in salt form, and, where possible, in tautomeric form, as an inhibitor of the activity of cathepsin S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Terance William Hart, Allan Hallett, Fumiaki Yokokawa, Hajime Hirao, Takeru Ehara, Atsuko Iwasaki, Junichi Sakaki, Keiichi Masuya, Masashi Kishida, Osamu Irie
  • Publication number: 20100029647
    Abstract: 3,4(,5)-substituted tetrahydropyridine compounds, these compounds for use in the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of a warm-blooded animal, especially for the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class for the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation for the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class in the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; pharmaceutical formulations comprising a 3,4(,5)-substituted tetrahydropyridine compound, and/or a method of treatment comprising administering a 3,4(,5)-substituted tetrahydropyridine compound, a method for the manufacture of a 3,4(,5)-substituted tetrahydropyridine compound, and novel intermediates and partial steps for its synthesis. The 3,4(,5)-substituted tetrahydropyridine compounds have the formula I wherein the substituents and symbols are as described in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Keiichi Masuya, Osamu Irie, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Atsushi Toyao, Takanori Kanazawa
  • Publication number: 20090312304
    Abstract: 3,4-substituted piperidine compounds, these compounds for use in the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of a warm-blooded animal, especially for the treatment of a disease (=disorder) that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class for the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation for the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class in the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; pharmaceutical formulations comprising a 3,4-substituted piperidine compound, and/or a method of treatment comprising administering a 3,4-substituted piperidine compound, a method for the manufacture of a 3,4-substituted piperidine compound, and novel intermediates and partial steps for their synthesis are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Werner Breitenstein, Takeru Ehara, Claus Ehrhardt, Philipp Grosche, Yuko Hitomi, Yuki Iwaki, Takanori Kanazawa, Kazuhide Konishi, Juergen K. Maibaum, Keiichi Masuya, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Nils Ostermann, Masaki Suzuki, Atsushi Toyao, Fumiaki Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20090275593
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-substituted N-(aryl- or heteroaryl)-pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds, their use as kinase inhibitors, new pharmaceutical formulations comprising said compounds, said compounds for use in the diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of warm-blooded animals, especially humans, their use in the treatment of diseases or for the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations useful in the treatment of diseases that respond to modulation of kinase, especially tie-2 kinase, activity, methods of treatment comprising administration of said compounds to a warm-blooded animal, especially a human, and processes for the manufacture of said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Keiichi Masuya, Andreas Vaupel, Patricia Imbach, Pascal Furet
  • Publication number: 20090233920
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3,5-substituted piperidine compounds, these compounds for use in the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of a warm-blooded animal, especially for the treatment of a disease (=disorder) that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class for the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation for the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class in the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; pharmaceutical formulations comprising a 3,5-substituted piperidine compound, and/or a method of treatment comprising administering a 3,5-substituted piperidine compound, a method for the manufacture of a 3,5-substituted piperidine compound, and novel intermediates and partial steps for its synthesis. The preferred compounds (which can also be present as salts) have the formula I wherein R1, R2, T, R3 and R4 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Werner Breitenstein, Claus Erhardt, Juergen Klaus Maibaum, Nils Ostermann, Juerg Zimmermann, Keiichi Masuya, Kazuhide Konishi, Fumiaki Yokokawa, Takanori Kanazawa, Edgar Jacoby, Andreas Marzinzik, Philipp Grosche, Shimpei Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20090186889
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof formula I wherein the symbols have the meaning as defined in the description. Said compounds are inhibitors of cathepsin K and/or cathepsin S and are useful for the treatment of diseases and medical conditions in which cathepsin K and or cathepsin S is implicated, e.g. various disorders including neuropathic pain, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis and tumours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Osamu Irie, Genji Iwasaki, Keiichi Masuya, Takahiro Miyake, Naoki Teno
  • Patent number: 7531546
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof formula (I) wherein the symbols have the meaning as defined in the description. Said compounds are inhibitors of cathepsin K and/or cathepsin S and are useful for the treatment of diseases and medical conditions in which cathepsin K and/or cathepsin S is implicated, e.g. various disorders including neuropathic pain, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis and tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Osamu Irie, Genji Iwasaki, Keiichi Masuya, Takahiro Miyake, Naoki Teno
  • Publication number: 20090118277
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-unsubstituted N-(aryl- or heteroaryl)-pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds, their use as kinase inhibitors, new pharmaceutical formulations comprising said compounds, said compounds for use in the diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of warm-blooded animals, especially humans, their use in the treatment of diseases or for the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations useful in the treatment of diseases that respond to modulation of kinase, especially tie-2 kinase, activity, methods of treatment comprising administration of said compounds to a warm-blooded animal, especially a human, and processes for the manufacture of said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Keiichi Masuya, Andrea Vaupel, Patricia Imbach, Pascal Furet
  • Publication number: 20090099167
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of pyrazolo[1,5a]pyrimidin-7-yl amine compounds and salts thereof in the treatment of kinase dependent diseases and for the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of said diseases, novel pyrazolo[1,5a]pyrimidin-7-yl amine compounds, and a process for the preparation of the novel pyrazolo[1,5a]pyrimidin-7-yl amine compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Guido Bold, Andreas Floersheimer, Pascal Furet, Patricia Imbach, Keiichi Masuya, Joseph G. Schoepfer, Georg Martiny-Baron
  • Publication number: 20090048230
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a 2-cyanopyrimidine compound of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and X are as defined in the specification and in the claims, in free form or in salt form, and, where possible, in tautomeric form, as an inhibitor of the activity of cathepsin S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Terance William Hart, Allan Hallett, Fumiaki Yokokawa, Hajime Hirao, Takeru Ehara, Atsuko Iwasaki, Junichi Sakaki, Keiichi Masuya, Masashi Kishida, Osamu Irie
  • Publication number: 20080312192
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of diaryl urea derivatives for the manufacture of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of RET dependent disorders, especially RET dependent tumour diseases. The invention further relates to novel N-[4-(pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl]-N?-phenyl-urea derivatives and their use in the treatment of the animal or human body, especially in the treatment of a protein kinase dependent disease, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such novel N-[4-(pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl]-N?-phenyl-urea derivatives and to the use of such novel N-[4-(pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl]-N?-phenyl-urea derivatives for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of protein kinase dependent diseases, especially of proliferative diseases, such as tumour diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Guido Bold, Giorgio Caravatti, Andreas Floersheimer, Vito Guagnano, Patricia Imbach, Keiichi Masuya, Johannes Roesel, Andrea Vaupel, Carlos Garcia-Echeverria
  • Publication number: 20080242662
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted 3,4- or higher substituted piperazine compounds, the use thereof for the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation for the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; the use of a compound of that class in the treatment of a disease that depends on activity of renin; these compounds for use in the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of a warm-blooded animal, especially for the treatment of a disease (=disorder) that depends on activity of renin; pharmaceutical formulations or products comprising said compounds, and/or a method of treatment comprising administering said compounds, a method for the manufacture of said compounds as well as novel intermediates, starting materials and/or partial steps for their synthesis. The compounds are especially of the formula I, wherein R1, R2, R11, C, E and D are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Atsushi Toyao, Yuki Iwaki, Keiichi Masuya
  • Publication number: 20080132504
    Abstract: Novel pyrimidine derivatives of formula I to processes for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Carlos Garcia-Echeverria, Takanori Kanazawa, Eiji Kawahara, Keiichi Masuya, Naoko Matsuura, Takahiro Miyake, Osamu Ohmori, Ichiro Umemura, Ruo Steensma, Greg Chopiuk, Jiqing Jiang, Yongqin Wan, Qiang Ding, Qiong Zhang, Nathanael Schiander Gray, Donald Karanewsky
  • Publication number: 20070167449
    Abstract: The invention relates to thiazole and pyrazole derivatives of formula (I) wherein Q is S and X is C, or Q is CH and X is N; R1 is unsubstituted or substituted phenyl; and R2 is unsubstituted or substituted aryl or heteroaryl; or a salt of the said compounds, and to processes for the preparation thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives and to the use of such derivatives for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment especially of a proliferative disease, such as a tumour disease, in particular such diseases which respond to an inhibition of the Flt-3 kinase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Guido Bold, Andreas Floersheimer, Pascal Furet, Vito Guagnano, Keiichi Masuya, Andrea Vaupel, Joseph Schoepfer
  • Publication number: 20060247251
    Abstract: The invention relates to pyrrolo pyrimidines of formula (I), wherein Y represents —(CH2)t—O— or —(CH2)r—S—, p is 1 or 2, r is 1, 2 or 3, t is 1, 2 or 3, or Y is —(CH2)j— or —CH?CH—, j is 1 or 2; p is 1 or 2, or Y is —(CH2)f—, f is 1 or 2, p is 1, and the further radicals and symbols have the meaning as defined herein; their preparation, their use as pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, the use of such a compound for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of neuropathic pain and to a method for the treatment of such a disease in animals, especially in humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Francis Buxton, Takeru Ehara, Pamposh Ganju, Allan Hallett, Osamu Irie, Atsuko Iwasaki, Takanori Kanazawa, Keiichi Masuya, Kazuhiko Nonomura, Junichi Sakaki, Christopher Snell, Chuanzheng Song, Keiko Tanabe, Naoki Teno, Ichiro Umemura, Fumiaki Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20060247241
    Abstract: Novel pyrimidine derivatives of formula I to process for their production, their use as pharmaceuticals and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Carlos Garcia-Echeverria, Takanori Kanazawa, Eiji Kawahara, Keiichi Masuya, Naoko Matsuura, Takahiro Miytake, Osamu Ohmori, Ichiro Umemura
  • Publication number: 20050222171
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of pyrazolo[1,5a]pyrimidin-7-yl amine compounds and salts thereof in the treatment of kinase dependent diseases and for the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of said diseases, novel pyrazolo[1,5a]pyrimidin-7-yl amine compounds, and a process for the preparation of the novel pyrazolo[1,5a]pyrimidin-7-yl amine compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Guido Bold, Andreas Floersheimer, Pascal Furet, Patricia Imbach, Keiichi Masuya, Joseph Schoepfer