Abstract: The invention relates to modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions comprising a fusion of a soluble fragment or domain of the FGF receptor part (targeting or binding moiety) with an Fc region of an immunoglobulin part (effector function moiety), having improved biological activity including ADCC/CDC activities, compositions containing them, and method of producing such modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusion molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions comprising a fusion of a soluble fragment or domain of the FGF receptor part (targeting or binding moiety) with an Fc region of an immunoglobulin part (effector function moiety), having improved biological activity including ADCC/CDC activities, compositions containing them, and method of producing such modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusion molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions comprising a fusion of a soluble fragment or domain of the FGF receptor part (targeting or binding moiety) with an Fc region of an immunoglobulin part (effector function moiety), having improved biological activity including ADCC/CDC activities, compositions containing them, and method of producing such modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusion molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions comprising a fusion of a soluble fragment or domain of the FGF receptor part (targeting or binding moiety) with an Fc region of an immunoglobulin part (effector function moiety), having improved biological activity including ADCC/CDC activities, compositions containing them, and method of producing such modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusion molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions comprising a fusion of a soluble fragment or domain of the FGF receptor part (targeting or binding moiety) with an Fc region of an immunoglobulin part (effector function moiety), having improved biological activity including ADCC/CDC activities, compositions containing them, and method of producing such modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusion molecules.

Abstract: This invention is directed to potent inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinase alone or in synergistic combination with antiangiogenic or chemotherapeutic agents for the abrogation of mature vasculature within chemotherapeutic refractory tumors, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and to the use of these compounds for treating a patient suffering from or subject to disorders/conditions involving cell proliferation, and particularly treatment of brain cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer prostate cancer, and human leukemias, such as CML, AML or ALL.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel nucleic acids encoding novel amino acid fragments of polypeptides, called abrogens. The present invention also relates to novel, potent in vitro and in vivo inhibitors of endothelial cell proliferation, and compositions of them and their use. The present invention further provides methods for modulating angiogenesis and/or inhibiting unwanted angiogenesis. Polypeptides according to the present invention are useful for developing cell growth-modulating compositions and methods and for treating and/or preventing cancer, tumor growth, or other angiogenic dependent or angiogenesis associated diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to kringle polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding kringle polypeptides and their use as therapeutic agents and in methods of identifying agonist compounds. In effect, the kringle polypeptides according to the present invention are particularly useful for inhibiting in vitro and in vivo proliferation, migration and/or invasion of endothelial cells, recruitment of smooth muscle cells, and/or the formation of vasculature in a tissue. The present invention also relates to the use of kringle polypeptides for treating and/or preventing angiogenesis in tumors and inhibiting the growth of tumors. The present invention further relates to a method of modulating angiogenesis in cells affected by an angiogenic-dependent process and inhibiting unwanted or unregulated angiogenesis in an angiogenesis-associated disease. The present invention also concerns a method of production and purification of kringle polypeptides in a soluble and active form.

Abstract: The invention relates to abrogen polypeptides and nucleic acids that encode them. In general, the abrogen polypeptides comprise the kringle domain from, for example, urokinase plasminogen activator. Abrogen polypeptides can be used to inhibit endothelial cell activation and/or proliferation and can inhibit endothelial cells activated or induced by both bFGF and VEGF. The invention also encompasses methods to produce polypeptides that possess abrogen activity as well as method for using these polypeptides.

Abstract: A method for repairing defects and inducing vascularization in mammalian tissue, preferably skin, involves administering to the tissue a recombinant replication defective virus, preferably adenovirus, carrying a selected growth factor gene, preferably VEGF or PDGF, under operative control of regulatory sequences which direct the expression of the growth factor(s). Also provided is a method for infecting a tissue to be transplanted with such recombinant adenoviruses prior to transplantation and, as a composition, an infected culture of human tissue to be transplanted which is infused with a selected growth factor prior to transplantation. Screening methods for the treatment of angiogenic disorders, e.g., hemangiomas and cancers, also employ an animal model on which is engrafted a full thickness human tissue infused with a growth factor.