Patents by Inventor Li-Huei Tsai

Li-Huei Tsai 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: 10960225
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating dementia or Alzheimer's disease in a subject in need thereof. In one example, chronic visual stimuli having a frequency of about 30 Hz to about 50 Hz, and more specifically about 40 Hz, are non-invasively delivered to the subject to entrain gamma oscillations in multiple brain regions of the subject, including the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus. The entrained gamma oscillations modulate neuronal activity across multiple brain regions (e.g., facilitate functional binding of neural networks at low gamma frequencies) to induce various neuroprotective effects (e.g., amelioration of amyloid plaques and tau hyper-phosphorylation) and reduce neurodegeneration. Neuronal activity mediated by the chronic visual stimuli reduces an immune response in microglia and ameliorates aberrantly modified genes and proteins involved in membrane trafficking, intracellular transport, synaptic function, neuroinflammation and DNA damage response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan, Li-Huei Tsai
  • Publication number: 20200316335
    Abstract: A method includes administering a non-invasive stimulus to a subject having a frequency of about 35 Hz to about 45 Hz to induce synchronized gamma oscillations in at least one brain region of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Publication number: 20200316334
    Abstract: A method includes administering a non-invasive stimulus to a subject having a frequency of about 35 Hz to about 45 Hz to induce synchronized gamma oscillations in at least one brain region of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Patent number: 10682490
    Abstract: A method includes administering a non-invasive stimulus to a subject having a frequency of about 35 Hz to about 45 Hz to induce synchronized gamma oscillations in at least one brain region of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Patent number: 10662199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or prodrug thereof, wherein U, J, V, X, R2a, R2b, R2c, R5 and t are as described herein. The present invention relates generally to inhibitors of histone deacetylase and to methods of making and using them. These compounds are useful for promoting cognitive function and enhancing learning and memory formation. In addition, these compounds are useful for treating, alleviating, and/or preventing various conditions, including for example, neurological disorders, memory and cognitive function disorders/impairments, extinction learning disorders, fungal diseases and infections, inflammatory diseases, hematological diseases, and neoplastic diseases in humans and animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Edward Holson, Florence Fevrier Wagner, Michel Weiwer, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen J. Haggarty, Yan-Ling Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200087236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyhydroxylated benzophenone compounds useful in the treatment of neurodegenerative, neurological, psychiatric, and cognitive diseases, in particular those associated with a deficiency in HDAC1 deacetylase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital
    Inventors: Li-Huei TSAI, Stephen J. HAGGARTY, Debasis PATNAIK, Ping-Chieh PAO
  • Publication number: 20190240443
    Abstract: A method includes administering a non-invasive stimulus to a subject having a frequency of about 35 Hz to about 45 Hz to induce synchronized gamma oscillations in at least one brain region of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Publication number: 20190211000
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formulae (A), (B), (C), and (D), pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and kits thereof. The present invention further provides methods of using the compounds to treat or prevent neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), traumatic brain injury, ischemic brain injury, stroke, frontal temporal dementia, Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, supra cerebral palsy, prion diseases (e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia, and Kuru), Nieman Pick type C, spinal cerebellar ataxia, spinal muscular dystrophy, ataxia telangiectasia, hippocampal sclerosis, Cockayne syndrome, Werner syndrome, xeroderma pigmentosaum, and Bloom syndrome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Ling Pan, Stephen J. Haggarty, Debasis Patnaik
  • Publication number: 20190126062
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating dementia or Alzheimer's disease in a subject in need thereof. In one example, chronic visual stimuli having a frequency of about 30 Hz to about 50 Hz, and more specifically about 40 Hz, are non-invasively delivered to the subject to entrain gamma oscillations in multiple brain regions of the subject, including the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus. The entrained gamma oscillations modulate neuronal activity across multiple brain regions (e.g., facilitate functional binding of neural networks at low gamma frequencies) to induce various neuroprotective effects (e.g., amelioration of amyloid plaques and tau hyper-phosphorylation) and reduce neurodegeneration. Neuronal activity mediated by the chronic visual stimuli reduces an immune response in microglia and ameliorates aberrantly modified genes and proteins involved in membrane trafficking, intracellular transport, synaptic function, neuroinflammation and DNA damage response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Chinnakkaruppan ADAIKKAN, Li-Huei Tsai
  • Patent number: 10265497
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for at least one of preventing, reducing, and treating a level of or change in at least one of amyloid-? (A?) peptide, C-terminal fragment-? (?-CTF), ?-secretase (BACE1), ?-secretase, neuroinflammation, and/or dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease or age-related decline) in a subject by inducing synchronized gamma oscillations in the brain of the subject using, for example, a stimulus-emitting device to emit a stimulus (e.g., light, sound, and/or haptic) at a frequency (e.g., about 40 Hz) that synchronously activates in vivo a specific cell type (e.g., fast-spiking-parvalbumin (FS-PV) immunoreactive interneurons) and/or brain region (e.g., a sensory cortex and/or hippocampus) of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Publication number: 20190105509
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for a treating dementia or Alzheimer's disease in a subject in need thereof. In one example, combined auditory and visual stimuli having a frequency of about 20 Hz to about 60 Hz, and more specifically about 40 Hz, are non-invasively delivered to the subject to induce synchronized gamma oscillations in at least one brain region of the subject. In particular, pursuant to various treatment and exposure protocols, combined auditory and visual stimulation (as opposed to auditory or visual stimulation alone) promotes a microglia response in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). More generally, combined auditory and visual stimulation induces an extended microglia clustering response in the auditory cortex, the visual cortex, and the mPFC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Anthony James Martorell, Ho-Jun Suk, Ed Boyden
  • Publication number: 20190085029
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for promoting cognitive function and/or treating cognitive function disorders and impairments. In particular the methods are accomplished by administering to a subject a specific CDK5 peptide inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Jinsoo Seo
  • Patent number: 10183141
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for at least one of preventing, reducing, and treating a level of or change in at least one of amyloid-? (A?) peptide, C-terminal fragment-? (?-CTF), ?-secretase (BACE1), ?-secretase, neuroinflammation, and/or dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease or age-related decline) in a subject by inducing synchronized gamma oscillations in the brain of the subject using, for example, a stimulus-emitting device to emit a stimulus (e.g., light, sound, and/or haptic) at a frequency (e.g., about 40 Hz) that synchronously activates in vivo a specific cell type (e.g., fast-spiking-parvalbumin (FS-PV) immunoreactive interneurons) and/or brain region (e.g., a sensory cortex and/or hippocampus) of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Publication number: 20190015473
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in some embodiments, methods for treating a neurodegenerative disease in a subject using a histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2)/Sp3 inhibitor, which may be a peptide inhibitor comprising the carboxyl-terminus of HDAC2, and related compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Hidekuni Yamakawa, Jemmie Cheng, Fan Gao, Jay Penney
  • Patent number: 10167277
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formulae (A), (B), (C), and (D), pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and kits thereof. The present invention further provides methods of using the compounds to treat or prevent neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), traumatic brain injury, ischemic brain injury, stroke, frontal temporal dementia, Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, supra cerebral palsy, prion diseases (e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia, and Kuru), Nieman Pick type C, spinal cerebellar ataxia, spinal muscular dystrophy, ataxia telangiectasia, hippocampal sclerosis, Cockayne syndrome, Werner syndrome, xeroderma pigmentosaum, and Bloom syndrome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Ling Pan, Stephen J. Haggarty, Debasis Patnaik
  • Patent number: 10159816
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for at least one of preventing, reducing, and treating a level of or change in at least one of amyloid-? (A?) peptide, C-terminal fragment-? (?-CTF), ?-secretase (BACE1), ?-secretase, neuroinflammation, and/or dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease or age-related decline) in a subject by inducing synchronized gamma oscillations in the brain of the subject using, for example, a stimulus-emitting device to emit a stimulus (e.g., light, sound, and/or haptic) at a frequency (e.g., about 40 Hz) that synchronously activates in vivo a specific cell type (e.g., fast-spiking-parvalbumin (FS-PV) immunoreactive interneurons) and/or brain region (e.g., a sensory cortex and/or hippocampus) of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Emery Brown, Hannah Iaccarino, Anthony James Martorell, Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
  • Patent number: 10124035
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of treating neurological disorders in a subject, by activating a DISC1 pathway. Methods of promoting neurogenesis in adult neural progenitor cells, enhancing nerve generation and treating GSK3 disorders as well as related compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Huei Tsai, Yingwei Mao, Jon Madison, Stephen J. Haggarty
  • Publication number: 20180290960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyhydroxylated benzophenone compounds useful in the treatment of neurodegenerative, neurological, psychiatric, and cognitive diseases, in particular those associated with a deficiency in HDAC1 deacetylase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Li-Huei TSAI, Stephen HAGGARTY, Debasis PATNAIK, Ping-Chieh PAO
  • Publication number: 20180099977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or prodrug thereof, wherein U, J, V, X, R2a, R2b, R2c, R5 and t are as described herein. The present invention relates generally to inhibitors of histone deacetylase and to methods of making and using them. These compounds are useful for promoting cognitive function and enhancing learning and memory formation. In addition, these compounds are useful for treating, alleviating, and/or preventing various conditions, including for example, neurological disorders, memory and cognitive function disorders/impairments, extinction learning disorders, fungal diseases and infections, inflammatory diseases, hematological diseases, and neoplastic diseases in humans and animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Edward Holson, Florence Fevrier Wagner, Michel Weiwer, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen J. Haggarty, Yan-Ling Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180016282
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or prodrug thereof, wherein U, J, V, X, R2a, R2b, R2c, R5 and t are as described herein. The present invention relates generally to inhibitors of histone deacetylase and to methods of making and using them. These compounds are useful for promoting cognitive function and enhancing learning and memory formation. In addition, these compounds are useful for treating, alleviating, and/or preventing various conditions, including for example, neurological disorders, memory and cognitive function disorders/impairments, extinction learning disorders, fungal diseases and infections, inflammatory diseases, hematological diseases, and neoplastic diseases in humans and animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Edward Holson, Florence Fevrier Wagner, Michel Weiwer, Li-Huei Tsai, Stephen J. Haggarty, Yan-Ling Zhang