Patents by Inventor Mark Pruzanski

Mark Pruzanski 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: 20220280534
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of an FXR agonist and at least one lipid lowering agent (e.g., PPAR-alpha agonist, PPAR-delta agonist, PPAR-alpha and delta dual agonist, and/or statin). Also disclosed is use of the combination for the treatment or prevention of a FXR mediated disease or condition, such as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), portal hypertension, bile acid diarrhea, NAFLD (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease), NASH (non-alcohol-induced steatohepatitis), and other chronic liver diseases. The combination of the present invention is useful for the treatment or prevention of conditions related to elevated lipid and liver enzyme levels. The present invention also relates to packs or kits including the pharmaceutical combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Mark PRUZANSKI, Luciano ADORINI
  • Publication number: 20220280533
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of an FXR agonist and at least one lipid lowering agent (e.g., PPAR-alpha agonist, PPAR-delta agonist, PPAR-alpha and delta dual agonist, and/or statin). Also disclosed is use of the combination for the treatment or prevention of a FXR mediated disease or condition, such as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), portal hypertension, bile acid diarrhea, NAFLD (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease), NASH (non-alcohol-induced steatohepatitis), and other chronic liver diseases. The combination of the present invention is useful for the treatment or prevention of conditions related to elevated lipid and liver enzyme levels. The present invention also relates to packs or kits including the pharmaceutical combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Mark PRUZANSKI, Luciano ADORINI
  • Publication number: 20220133745
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Richard Gail LANCASTER, Kay K. OLMSTEAD, Masashi KAGIHIRO, Mitsuhiro MATONO, Ikuko TAOKA, Mark PRUZANSKI, David SHAPIRO, Roya HOOSHMAND-RAD, Richard PENCEK, Cathi SCIACCA, Lise ELIOT, Jeffrey EDWARDS, Leigh MACCONELL, Tonya MARMON
  • Patent number: 11311557
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of an FXR agonist and at least one lipid lowering agent (e.g., PPAR-alpha agonist, PPAR-delta agonist, PPAR-alpha and delta dual agonist, and/or statin). Also disclosed is use of the combination for the treatment or prevention of a FXR mediated disease or condition, such as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), portal hypertension, bile acid diarrhea, NAFLD (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease), NASH (non-alcohol-induced steatohepatitis), and other chronic liver diseases. The combination of the present invention is useful for the treatment or prevention of conditions related to elevated lipid and liver enzyme levels. The present invention also relates to packs or kits including the pharmaceutical combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Pruzanski, Luciano Adorini
  • Publication number: 20210346400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting fibrosis that occurs in an organ where the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is expressed. This method involves the step of administering a high potency, activating ligand of FXR in an effective amount to a patient who is suffering from a cholestatic condition. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing an effective amount of an FXR ligand and kits for dispensing the pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Stefano FIORUCCI, Roberto PELLICCIARI, Mark PRUZANSKI
  • Patent number: 10987362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting fibrosis that occurs in an organ where the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is expressed. This method involves the step of administering a high potency, activating ligand of FXR in an effective amount to a patient who is not suffering from a cholestatic condition. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing an effective amount of an FXR ligand and kits for dispensing the pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Fiorucci, Roberto Pellicciari, Mark Pruzanski
  • Patent number: 10894054
    Abstract: The present application relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of an FXR agonist and at least one additional therapeutic agent that lowers the glucose level in the blood, stimulates insulin secretion, and/or increases insulin sensitivity. The present application relates to use of the pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prevention of a FXR mediated disease or condition, such as NAFLD and NASH, a disease or condition related to an elevated level of glucose in the blood, decreased secretion of insulin, and/or decreased insulin sensitivity such as hyperglycemia, diabetes, obesity, and insulin resistance, or for lowering the glucose level in the blood, stimulating insulin secretion, and/or increasing insulin sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Pruzanski, Luciano Adorini
  • Publication number: 20200397803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting fibrosis that occurs in an organ where the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is expressed. This method involves the step of administering a high potency, activating ligand of FXR in an effective amount to a patient who is not suffering from a cholestatic condition. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing an effective amount of an FXR ligand and kits for dispensing the pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Stefano Fiorucci, Roberto Pellicciari, Mark Pruzanski
  • Patent number: 10758549
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Patent number: 10751349
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Publication number: 20200197414
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting fibrosis that occurs in an organ where the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is expressed. This method involves the step of administering a high potency, activating ligand of FXR in an effective amount to a patient who is not suffering from a cholestatic condition. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing an effective amount of an FXR ligand and kits for dispensing the pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Stefano Fiorucci, Roberto Pelloclari, Mark Pruzanski
  • Publication number: 20200171053
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Patent number: 10646499
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Publication number: 20200054650
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Publication number: 20200046735
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Publication number: 20200046736
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Publication number: 20190255071
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Patent number: 10258633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting fibrosis that occurs in an organ where the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is expressed. This method involves the step of administering a high potency, activating ligand of FXR in an effective amount to a patient who is not suffering from a cholestatic condition. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing an effective amount of an FXR ligand and kits for dispensing the pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Fiorucci, Roberto Pellicciari, Mark Pruzanski
  • Publication number: 20190076446
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon
  • Patent number: 10052337
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to obeticholic acid formulations with improved stability, dissolution, and/or solubility, methods of preparing the same for use and methods of treating various diseases and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Gail Lancaster, Kay K. Olmstead, Masashi Kagihiro, Mitsuhiro Matono, Ikuko Taoka, Mark Pruzanski, David Shapiro, Roya Hooshmand-Rad, Richard Pencek, Cathi Sciacca, Lise Eliot, Jeffrey Edwards, Leigh A. MacConell, Tonya K. Marmon