Patents by Inventor Kerry Benenato

Kerry Benenato 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: 20240238210
    Abstract: The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising CFTR. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of CFTR expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient CFTR activity in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Stephen Hoge, Iain McFadyen, Vladimir Presnyak, Paolo Martini, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20240226025
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to messenger RNA (mRNA) therapy for the treatment of methylmalonic acidemia. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode methylmalonyl-CoA mutase. mRNA therapies of the disclosure increase and/or restore deficient levels of MUT expression and/or activity in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Mark Cornebise, Edward Hennessy, Ruchi Jain, Vladimir Presnyak
  • Publication number: 20240216288
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to ionizable amino lipid-based lipid nanoparticles for delivery of mRNA encoding propionyl-CoA carboxylase alpha (PCCA) and propionyl-CoA carboxylase beta (PCCB). Lipid nanoparticle/mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of PCCA and/or PCCB expression and/or activity in subjects and are useful for the treatment of propionic academia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Mark Cornebise, Edward Hennessy
  • Publication number: 20240207444
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to ionizable amino lipid-based lipid nanoparticles for delivery of mRNA encoding phenylalanine hydroxylase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Mark Cornebise, Edward Hennessy
  • Publication number: 20240207374
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to ionizable amino lipid-based lipid nanoparticles for delivery of mRNA encoding glucose-6-phosphatase. Lipid nanoparticle/mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of glucose-6-phosphatase expression and/or activity in subjects and are useful for the treatment of glycogen storage disease type 1a (GSD-Ia). Lipid nanoparticle/mRNA therapies of the invention increase glucose production and reduce the abnormal accumulation of glycogen and glucose-6-phosphate associated with GSD-Ia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Mark Cornebise, Edward Hennessy
  • Publication number: 20240189449
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD). mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC). mRNA therapies of the disclosure increase and/or restore deficient levels of OTC expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the disclosure further decrease levels of toxic ammonia associated with deficient OTC activity in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Alicia Anne Bicknell, Mark Cornebise, Athanasios Dousis, Andrew Jacob Giessel, Edward Hennessy, Ruchi Jain, Caroline Köhrer, Stuart Spencer Licht, Kanchana Ravichandran, David Reid
  • Publication number: 20240024422
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polynucleotides comprising an open reading frame of linked nucleosides encoding human interleukin-12 (IL12), functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising IL12. In some embodiments, the open reading frame is sequence-optimized. In particular embodiments, the disclosure provides sequence-optimized polynucleotides comprising nucleotides encoding the polypeptide sequence of human IL12, or sequences having high sequence identity with those sequence optimized polynucleotides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua FREDERICK, Susannah HEWITT, Ailin BAI, Stephen HOGE, Vladimir PRESNYAK, Iain MCFADYEN, Kerry BENENATO, Ellalahewage Sathyajith KUMARASINGHE
  • Publication number: 20230346928
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of nucleic acid (e.g., mRNA) combination therapies for the treatment of cancer. The disclosure provides compositions, and methods for their preparation, manufacture, and therapeutic use, wherein those compositions comprise at least two polynucleotides (e.g., mRNAs) in combination wherein the at least two polynucleotides are selected from the group consisting of (i) a polynucleotide encoding an immune response primer (e.g., IL23), (ii) a polynucleotide encoding an immune response co-stimulatory signal (e.g., OX40L), (iii) a polynucleotide encoding a checkpoint inhibitor (e.g., an anti CTLA-4 antibody), and, (iv) a combination thereof. The therapeutic methods disclosed herein comprise, e.g., the administration of a combination therapy disclosed herein for the treatment of cancer, e.g., by reducing the size of a tumor or inhibiting the growth of a tumor, in a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua P. FREDERICK, Susannah HEWITT, Ailin BAI, Stephen G. HOGE, Vladimir PRESNYAK, Iain MCFADYEN, Kerry BENENATO, Ellalahewage Sathyajith KUMARASINGHE
  • Patent number: 11801227
    Abstract: The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising CFTR. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of CFTR expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient CFTR activity in subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Stephen Hoge, Iain McFadyen, Vladimir Presnyak, Paolo Martini, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20230323371
    Abstract: The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of Fabry disease. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human the ?-galactosidase A (GLA), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising GLA. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of GLA expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient GLA activity in subjects, namely Gb3 and lyso-Gb3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Paolo MARTINI, Stephen G. HOGE, Kerry BENENATO, Vladimir PRESNYAK, Iain MCFADYEN, Ellalahewage Sathyajith KUMARASINGHE, Xuling ZHU, Lin Tung GUEY, Staci SABNIS
  • Publication number: 20230270685
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to polynucleotides comprising an open reading frame of linked nucleosides encoding human methylmalonyl-CoA mutase precursor, human methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM) mature form, or functional fragments thereof. In some embodiments, the disclosure includes methods of treating methylmalonic acidemia in a subject in need thereof comprising administering an mRNA encoding an MCM polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Paolo Martini, Vladimir Presnyak, Kerry Benenato, Stephen Hoge, Iain McFadyen, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20230270836
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to Lassa virus, Nipah virus, and betacoronavirus ribonucleic acid vaccines as well as methods of using the vaccines and compositions comprising the vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Ciaramella, Sunny Himansu, Vladimir Presnyak, Kerry Benenato, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20230233475
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to ionizable lipid-based lipid nanoparticles for delivery of mRNA encoding glucose-6-phosphatase. Lipid nanoparticle/mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of glucose-6-phosphatase expression and activity in subjects and are useful for the treatment of glycogen storage disease type 1a (GSD-Ia). Lipid nanoparticle/mRNA therapies of the invention increase glucose production and reduce the abnormal accumulation of glycogen and glucose-6-phosphate associated with GSD-Ia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kerry Benenato, Kristine Burke, Jingsong Cao, Paloma Hoban Giangrande, Edward J. Hennessy, Stephen Hoge, Jaclyn Milton, Staci Sabnis, Timothy Salerno, Matthew Theisen
  • Patent number: 11696892
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to nanoparticles comprising a lipid component and a modified RNA encoding a VEGF-A polypeptide. Aspects of the disclosure further relate to uses of nanoparticles comprising a lipid component and a modified RNA encoding a VEGF-A polypeptide, for improving wound healing in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenny Mikael Hansson, Kerry Benenato, Maria Wågberg, Annika Pålsson, Regina Fritsche-Danielson
  • Patent number: 11660341
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of nucleic acid (e.g., mRNA) combination therapies for the treatment of cancer. The disclosure provides compositions, and methods for their preparation, manufacture, and therapeutic use, wherein those compositions comprise at least two polynucleotides (e.g., mRNAs) in combination wherein the at least two polynucleotides are selected from the group consisting of (i) a polynucleotide encoding an immune response primer (e.g., IL23), (ii) a polynucleotide encoding an immune response co-stimulatory signal (e.g., OX40L), (iii) a polynucleotide encoding a checkpoint inhibitor (e.g., an anti CTLA-4 antibody), and, (iv) a combination thereof. The therapeutic methods disclosed herein comprise, e.g., the administration of a combination therapy disclosed herein for the treatment of cancer, e.g., by reducing the size of a tumor or inhibiting the growth of a tumor, in a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua P. Frederick, Susannah Hewitt, Ailin Bai, Stephen G. Hoge, Vladimir Presnyak, Iain McFadyen, Kerry Benenato, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe
  • Patent number: 11649461
    Abstract: The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of Fabry disease. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human the ?-galactosidase A (GLA), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising GLA. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of GLA expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient GLA activity in subjects, namely Gb3 and lyso-Gb3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Paolo Martini, Stephen G. Hoge, Kerry Benenato, Vladimir Presnyak, Iain Mcfadyen, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe, Xuling Zhu, Lin Tung Guey, Staci Sabnis
  • Publication number: 20230112986
    Abstract: The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP). mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode human porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising PBGD. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to affect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of PBGD expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient PBGD activity in subjects, namely porphobilinogen and aminolevulinate (PBG and ALA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicants: ModernaTX, Inc., Fundacion Para La Investigacion Medica Aplicada
    Inventors: Paolo MARTINI, Stephen HOGE, Kerry BENENATO, Vladimir PRESNVAK, Lei JIANG, Iain MCFADYEN, Ellalahewage Sathyajith KUMARASINGHE, Antonio FONTANELLAS ROMA, Pedro BERRAONDO LOPEZ, Matias Antonio AVILA ZARAGOZA, Lin Tung GUEY, Staci SABNIS
  • Patent number: 11596609
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of combinations of immunomodulatory polynucleotides (e.g., mRNAs) encoding an immune response primer polypeptide (e.g., an interleukin 23 (IL-23) polypeptide or an interleukin 36? (IL-36-gamma) polypeptide), and an immune response co-stimulatory signal polypeptide (e.g., an OX40L polypeptide).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Frederick, Ailin Bai, Vladimir Presnyak, Stephen Hoge, Kerry Benenato, Iain McFadyen, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe, Susannah Hewitt
  • Publication number: 20230041964
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of combinations of immunomodulatory polynucleotides (e.g., mRNAs) encoding an immune response primer polypeptide (e.g., an interleukin 23 (IL-23) polypeptide or an interleukin 36? (IL-36-gamma) polypeptide), and an immune response co-stimulatory signal polypeptide (e.g., an OX40L polypeptide).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua FREDERICK, Ailin BAI, Vladimir PRESNYAK, Stephen HOGE, Kerry BENENATO, Iain MCFADYEN, Ellalahewage Sathyajith KUMARASINGHE, Susannah HEWITT
  • Patent number: 11571463
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polynucleotides comprising an open reading frame of linked nucleosides encoding human interleukin-12 (IL12), functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising IL12. In some embodiments, the open reading frame is sequence-optimized. In particular embodiments, the disclosure provides sequence-optimized polynucleotides comprising nucleotides encoding the polypeptide sequence of human IL12, or sequences having high sequence identity with those sequence optimized polynucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ModernaTX, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Frederick, Susannah Hewitt, Ailin Bai, Stephen Hoge, Vladimir Presnyak, Iain James McFadyen, Kerry Benenato, Ellalahewage Sathyajith Kumarasinghe