Patents by Inventor Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood 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).

  • Patent number: 9856532
    Abstract: Concentrations of certain miRNA, mRNA and/or protein markers in the biological fluids and/or tissues of a subject are used to determine the probability that the subject does or does not have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The concentrations of these markers in fluids and/or tissues are different in subjects with PTSD as compared to subjects who do not suffer from this disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Kai Wang, Inyoul Lee, Yong Zhou, Ji Hoon Cho, Dhimankrishna Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20170176439
    Abstract: A signature of proteins occurring in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tissue comprised of 33 cell surface proteins (GBMSig) that distinguish subjects with GBM from healthy controls with more than 98% accuracy is described. In addition, four of the members of this signature are particularly useful as blood-borne markers of GBM. Certain other members of the signature are indicators of the possible efficacy of the use of TGF-?1 inhibitors in the treatment of this condition. Methods to treat and to stratify GBM based on GBMSig proteins are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Dhimankrishna GHOSH, Charles S. COBBS, Nathan D. PRICE, Leroy HOOD
  • Patent number: 9334315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a purified molecules, including antibodies, that bind specifically to murine ?-catenin phosphorylated at amino acid position Serine552 and to orthologs thereof, such as mammalian orthologs, including human orthologs. Methods of making and using such purified molecules are also provided. Kits containing such purified molecules are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Institute For Systems Biology
    Inventors: Xi He, Tong Yin, Qiang Tian, Weiguo Tao, Leroy Hood, Linheng Li
  • Patent number: 9234895
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying organ-specific secreted proteins and for identifying organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints therefrom. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising such proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels, and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Biaoyang Lin
  • Publication number: 20150252429
    Abstract: The invention provides methods to identify various types of brain cancer tissue by comparing gene expression transcriptomes in tissue samples. A sequential method to discriminate among six different types of brain cancer is described. The invention relates to the field of markers for various types of brain cancer. More particularly, it relies on a sequential system for sorting individual cancer types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Nathan D. Price, Leroy Hood, Jaeyun Sung, Donald Geman
  • Patent number: 9103834
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying drug side effects by detecting perturbations in organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. The invention further relates to methods for identifying drug-specific organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Biaoyang Lin
  • Patent number: 9002652
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying organ-specific secreted proteins and for identifying organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints therefrom. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising such proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels, and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Biaoyang Lin
  • Publication number: 20140287949
    Abstract: The invention provides an efficient multiplex method for identifying binding partners of small molecules and proteins. The small molecules and proteins are tagged with a nucleic acid barcode that can be used to identify the protein or small molecule, and thereby its partner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    Inventors: Kristin BROGAARD, Christopher LAUSTED, Leroy HOOD
  • Publication number: 20140228229
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying drug side effects by detecting perturbations in organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. The invention further relates to methods for identifying drug-specific organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Biaoyang Lin
  • Publication number: 20140106981
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying and using organ-specific proteins and transcripts. The present invention further provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins and transcripts encoding the same, detection reagents for detecting such proteins and transcripts, and diagnostic panels, kits and arrays for measuring organ-specific proteins/transcripts in blood, biological tissue or other biological fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicants: Integrated Diagnostics, Inc., Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Patricia M. Beckmann, Richard Johnson, Marcello Marelli, Xiaojun Li
  • Publication number: 20140073524
    Abstract: Concentrations of certain miRNA, mRNA and/or protein markers in the biological fluids and/or tissues of a subject are used to determine the probability that the subject does or does not have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The concentrations of these markers in fluids and/or tissues are different in subjects with PTSD as compared to subjects who do not suffer from this disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy HOOD, Kai WANG, Inyoul LEE, Yong ZHOU, Ji Hoon CHO, Dhimankrishna GHOSH
  • Publication number: 20140073516
    Abstract: Concentrations of certain miRNA, mRNA and/or protein markers in the biological fluids and/or tissues of a subject are used to determine the probability that the subject does or does not have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The concentrations of these markers in fluids and/or tissues are different in subjects with PTSD as compared to subjects who do not suffer from this disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    Inventors: Leroy HOOD, Kai Wang, Inyoul Lee, Yong Zhou, Ji Hoon Cho, Dhimankrishna Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20140051072
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity. The method consists of generating a random population of polymerase mutants by mutating at least one amino acid residue of a thermostable polymerase and screening the population for one or more active polymerase mutants by genetic selection. For example, the invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity by mutating at least one amino acid residue in an active site O-helix of a thermostable polymerase. The invention also provides thermostable polymerases and nucleic acids encoding thermostable polymerases having altered fidelity, for example, high fidelity polymerases and low fidelity polymerases. The invention additionally provides a method for identifying one or more mutations in a gene by amplifying the gene with a high fidelity polymerase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Loeb, Leroy Hood, Mitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8637240
    Abstract: Signatures indicative of cancer grades are based on over- and under-expression of 214 genes that characterize expression patterns in CD133+ cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Qiang Tian, Greg D. Foltz, Leroy Hood, Xiaowei Yan
  • Patent number: 8632982
    Abstract: Fourteen markers not previously known to be associated with liver injury have been identified. Methods to diagnose a subject for liver injury using these markers are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Zhiyuan Hu, Christopher Lausted, Leroy Hood
  • Patent number: 8603752
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying drug side effects by detecting perturbations in organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. The invention further relates to methods for identifying drug-specific organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Institute for Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Biaoyang Lin
  • Patent number: 8586006
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying and using organ-specific proteins and transcripts. The present invention further provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins and transcripts encoding the same, detection reagents for detecting such proteins and transcripts, and diagnostic panels, kits and arrays for measuring organ-specific proteins/transcripts in blood, biological tissue or other biological fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Institute for Systems Biology, Integrated Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Leroy Hood, Patricia M. Beckmann, Richard Johnson, Marcello Marelli, Xiaojun Li
  • Patent number: 8425878
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of a biomarker specifically located in the plasma membrane of pancreatic beta cells. It was selected by a Systems Biology approach on Massively Parallel Signal Sequencing datasets obtained in human islets and Affymetrix microarray datasets on human islets, purified rat primary beta and non beta cells and insulinoma cells. Based on a set of specific features the biomarker is a unique candidate for imaging and targeting strategies to study the pancreatic beta cell mass in health and disease (T1 D, T2D, pancreatic cancers, obesity, islet transplantation, beta cell regeneration).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Universite Libre de Bruxelles
    Inventors: Decio L. Eizirik, Daisy Flamez, Isabelle Salmon, Alix Berton, Isabelle Roland, Daniel Marechal, Marie-Claire Beckers, Leroy Hood, Nathan Goodman, Burak Kutlu
  • Patent number: 8420325
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity. The method consists of generating a random population of polymerase mutants by mutating at least one amino acid residue of a thermostable polymerase and screening the population for one or more active polymerase mutants by genetic selection. For example, the invention provides a method for identifying a thermostable polymerase having altered fidelity by mutating at least one amino acid residue in an active site O-helix of a thermostable polymerase. The invention also provides thermostable polymerases and nucleic acids encoding thermostable polymerases having altered fidelity, for example, high fidelity polymerases and low fidelity polymerases. The invention additionally provides a method for identifying one or more mutations in a gene by amplifying the gene with a high fidelity polymerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: University of Washington Through Its Center for Commercialization
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Loeb, Leroy Hood, Motoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130045873
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying organ-specific secreted proteins and for identifying organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints therefrom. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising such proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels, and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: Institute For Systems Biology
    Inventors: Leroy HOOD, Biaoyang LIN