Patents by Inventor Napoleone Ferrara

Napoleone Ferrara 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).

  • Composition Comprising and Method of Using Angiopoietin-Like Protein 3 ANGPTL3
    Publication number: 20070134250
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods and means for making and using Angpt13 polypeptides. The invention specifically concerns the use of Angpt13 polypeptides in inducing liver regeneration and angiogenesis. Further methods include the use of Angpt13 polypeptides in the diagnosis and treatment of liver disease. Also provided herein are antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Hans-Peter Gerber, Joe Kowalski, Maria Pisabarro, Daniel Sherman
  • NOVEL INHIBITORS OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR ACTIVITY, THEIR USES AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20070128695
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel chimeric VEGF receptor proteins comprising amino acid sequences derived from the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptors flt-1 and KDR, including the murine homologue to the human KDR receptor FLK-1, wherein said chimeric VEGF receptor proteins bind to VEGF and antagonize the endothelial cell proliferative and angiogenic activity thereof. The present invention is also directed to nucleic acids and expression vectors encoding these chimeric VEGF receptor proteins, host cells harboring such expression vectors, pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising such proteins, methods of preparing such proteins and to methods utilizing such proteins for the treatment of conditions associated with undesired vascularization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Genentech,Inc.
    Inventors: Terri Davis-Smyth, Helen Chen, Leonard Presta, Napoleone Ferrara
  • EG-VEGF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND POLYPEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20070122412
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides designated herein as EG-VEGF and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention. Also provided herein are methods of screening for modulators of EG-VEGF. Furthermore, methods and related methods of treatment are described herein which pertain to regulating cellular proliferation and chemotaxis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: NAPOLEONE FERRARA, Colin Watanabe, William Wood
  • Compositions and Methods for Liver Growth and Liver Protection
    Publication number: 20070122394
    Abstract: The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for liver proliferation and protection. Specifically useful are VEGFR modulating agents capable of promoting liver growth. Disclosed compositions and methods may be useful for promoting proliferation or treating pathological conditions in other organs of significant biological functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Kenneth Hillan, Jennifer Le Couter
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Patent number: 7223586
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney, William I. Wood
  • VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR ANTAGONISTS
    Publication number: 20070110755
    Abstract: The present invention provides vascular endothelial cell growth factor (hVEGF) antagonists, including monoclonal antibodies, hVEGF receptors, and hVEGF variants that inhibit the mitogenic, angiogenic, or other biological activity of hVEGF. The antagonists thus are useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders characterized by undesirable or excessive endothelial cell proliferation or neovascularization. The monoclonal antibodies and receptors of the invention also are useful in diagnostic and analytical methods for determining the presence of hVEGF in a test sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Kyung Kim
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Patent number: 7208308
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi Ashkenazi, David Botstein, Luc Desnoyers, Dan L. Eaton, Napoleone Ferrara, Ellen Filvaroff, Sherman Fong, Wei-Giang Gao, Hanspeter Gerber, Mary E. Gerritsen, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, J. Christopher Grimaldi, Austin L. Gurney, Kenneth J. Hillan, Ivar J. Kljavin, Jennie P. Mather, James Pan, Nicholas F. Paoni, Margaret Ann Roy, Timothy A. Stewart, Daniel Tumas, P. Mickey Williams, William I. Wood
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Publication number: 20070088151
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Audrey Goddard, Paul Godowski, Austin Gurney, William Wood
  • VARIANTS OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR, THEIR USES, AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20070082847
    Abstract: The present invention involves the preparation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) variants which provide materials that are selective in respect of binding characteristics to the kinase domain region and the FMS-like tyrosine-kinase region, respectively KDR and FLT-1. The respective KDR and FLT-1 receptors are bound by corresponding domains within the VEGF compound domains. The variants hereof define those two binding regions and modify them so as to introduce changes that interrupt the binding to the respective domain. In this fashion the final biological characteristics of the VEGF molecule are selectively modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Keyt, Francis Nguyen, Napoleone Ferrara
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Publication number: 20070077623
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Avi Ashkenazi, David Bolstein, Luc Desnoyers, Dan Eaton, Napoleone Ferrara, Ellen Filvaroff, Sherman Fong, Wei-Qiang Gao, Hanspeter Gerber, Mary Gerritsen, Audrey Goddard, Paul Godowski, Christopher Grimaldi, Austin Gurney, Kenneth Hillan, Ivar Kljavin, Jennie Mather, James Pan, Nicholas Paoni, Margaret Roy, Timothy Stewart, Daniel Tumas, P. Williams, William Wood
  • PRO363 polypeptides
    Patent number: 7196165
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi J. Ashkenazi, Kevin P. Baker, David Botstein, Luc Desnoyers, Dan L. Eaton, Napoleone Ferrara, Ellen Filvaroff, Sherman Fong, Wei-Qiang Gao, Hanspeter Gerber, Mary E. Gerritsen, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, J. Christopher Grimaldi, Austin L. Gurney, Kenneth J. Hillan, Ivar J. Kljavin, Sophia S. Kuo, Mary A. Napier, James Pan, Nicholas F. Paoni, Margaret Ann Roy, David L. Shelton, Timothy A. Stewart, Daniel Tumas, P. Mickey Williams, William I. Wood
  • PRO792 nucleic acids
    Patent number: 7189529
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi J. Ashkenazi, Kevin P. Baker, David Botstein, Luc Desnoyers, Dan L. Eaton, Napoleone Ferrara, Ellen Filvaroff, Sherman Fong, Wei-Qiang Gao, Hanspeter Gerber, Mary E. Gerritsen, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, J. Christopher Grimaldi, Austin L. Gurney, Kenneth J. Hillan, Ivar J. Kljavin, Sophia S. Kuo, Mary A. Napier, James Pan, Nicholas F. Paoni, Margaret Ann Roy, David L. Shelton, Timothy A. Stewart, Daniel Tumas, P. Mickey Williams, William I. Wood
  • Polypeptides Homologous To VEGF and BMP1
    Publication number: 20070031929
    Abstract: The present invention involves the identification and preparation of vascular endothelial growth factor-E (VEGF-E). VEGF-E is a novel polypeptide related to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and bone morphogenetic protein 1. VEGF-E has homology to VEGF including conservation of the amino acids required for activity of VEGF. VEGF-E can be useful in wound repair, as well as in the generation and regeneration of tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Sophia Kuo
  • Inhibitors of angiopoietin-like 4 protein, combinations, and their use
    Publication number: 20070026002
    Abstract: Modulators of angiopoietin-like 4 protein are provided along with methods for their use in the treatment of diseases and pathological conditions. Combinations of ANGPTL4 antagonists and other therapeutics, e.g., anti-cancer agents, and methods of their use in the treatment of mammals susceptible to or diagnosed with cancer, or with relapse tumor growth or relapse cancer cell growth are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanspeter Gerber, Napoleone Ferrara, Xiao Liang
  • PRO211 polypeptides
    Patent number: 7169906
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney, William I. Wood
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Patent number: 7157267
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney, William I. Wood
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Patent number: 7151160
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Napoleone Ferrara, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney, Kenneth J. Hillan, William I. Wood
  • Anti-pro211 polypeptide antibodies
    Patent number: 7147853
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney, William I. Wood, Napoleone Ferrara
  • Secreted and transmembrane polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding the same
    Publication number: 20060275864
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Avi Ashkenazi, David Botstein, Luc Desnoyers, Dan Eaton, Napoleone Ferrara, Ellen Filvaroff, Sherman Fong, Wei-Qiang Gao, Hanspeter Gerber, Mary Gerritsen, Audrey Goddard, Paul Godowski, Christopher Grimaldi, Austin Gurney, Kenneth Hillan, Ivar Kljavin, Jennie Mather, James Pan, Nicholas Paoni, Margaret Roy, Timothy Stewart, Daniel Tumas, P. Williams, William Wood
  • PRO20044 nucleic acids
    Patent number: 7135334
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are disclosed for stimulating or inhibiting angiogenesis and/or cardiovascularization in mammals, including humans. Pharmaceutical compositions are based on polypeptides or antagonists thereto that have been identified for one or more of these uses. Disorders that can be diagnosed, prevented, or treated by the compositions herein include trauma such as wounds, various cancers, and disorders of the vessels including atherosclerosis and cardiac hypertrophy. In addition, the present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin P. Baker, Napoleone Ferrara, Hanspeter Gerber, Mary E. Gerritsen, Audrey Goddard, Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney, Kenneth J. Hillan, Scot A. Marsters, James Pan, Jean-Philippe F. Stephan, Colin K. Watanabe, P. Mickey Williams, William I. Wood, Weilan Ye