Patents by Inventor Nathanael S. Gray

Nathanael S. Gray 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: 20240245695
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of increasing skin pigmentation in a subject in need thereof using salt-inducible kinase (SIK) inhibitors, such as macrocyclic compounds of Formula (I), bicyclic urea compounds of Formula (II), (III), and (IV), and compounds of Formula (V), (VI), (VI-A), or (VII). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: David E. Fisher, Nisma Mujahid, Ryo Murakami, Nathanael S. Gray, Yanke Liang, Hwan Geun Choi
  • Publication number: 20240245786
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions by modulating (e.g., reducing) the level or activity of at least one of PIP4K2A, PIP4K2B, and PIP4K2C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Lewis C. Cantley, Sindhu Carmen Sivakumaren, Theresa Manz, Eric Wang, Wenzhi Ji, Eric S. Fischer, Katherine Donovan
  • Publication number: 20240197678
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds which inhibit Pin1 activity, methods of making the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods of using the compounds to treat diseases or disorders characterized or mediated by dysregulated Pin1 activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVLOPMENT CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Inchul You, Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Sirano Dhe-Paganon, Nir London, Christian Dubiella
  • Publication number: 20240166665
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compounds that act as covalent inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR); pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating or preventing kinase-mediated disorders, including cancer and other proliferation diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Zhengnian Li, Jianwei Che, Tinghu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240158403
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel heteroaryl compounds of formula (IX). Such compounds are useful for the treatment of cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Nathanael S. GRAY, Jianming ZHANG, Barun OKRAM, Xianming DENG, Jae Won CHANG, Amy WOJCIECHOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20240124406
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I?), Formula (I?), Formula (I), Formula (II?), and Formula (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. Also provided are methods, uses, and kits involving the disclosed compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers), inflammatory diseases (e.g., fibrosis), autoimmune diseases (e.g., sclerosis)) in a subject. Provided are methods of inhibiting the activity of a transcription factor (e.g., TEAD, such as TEAD1, TEAD2, TEAD3, TEAD4) and/or inhibiting the transcription of a gene (e.g., a gene controlled or regulated by a transcription factor (e.g., TEAD)) in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Nicholas Paul Kwiatkowski, Mengyang Fan, Jianwei Che, Wenchao Lu
  • Patent number: 11945816
    Abstract: The application relates to a compound having Formula X: which modulates the activity of HER2 and/or a mutant thereof, and/or EGFR and/or a mutant thereof, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a method of treating or preventing a disease in which HER2 and/or a mutant thereof, and/or EGFR and/or a mutant thereof, plays a role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Hatcher, Nathanael S. Gray, Jaebong Jang, Dries De Clercq, Pasi Janne, Jamie A. Saxon, Michael Eck, David A. Scott, Alyssa Verano
  • Publication number: 20240101559
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The provided compounds may be kinase (e.g., Janus kinase (JAK) (e.g., Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)) and/or cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g., cyclin-dependent kinase 11 (CDK11)) inhibitors. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and kits including the provided compounds. Further provided are methods of using the provided compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits (e.g., for treating a disease (e.g., proliferative disease) in a subject in need thereof).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Yao Liu, David Weinstock, Loretta Sze-Mun Li
  • Publication number: 20240091213
    Abstract: Provided herein are bifunctional compounds that bind tau protein and/or promote targeted ubiquitination for the degradation of tau protein. In particular, provided are compounds that can bind tau protein, a protein whose aggregation is implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative disease (e.g., tauopathies), and can promote its degradation by recruiting an E3 ubiquitin ligase (e.g., Cereblon), which can ubiquitinate tau protein, marking it for proteasomal degradation. Also provided are radiolabeled forms of the bifunctional compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bifunctional compounds, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing neurological disorders, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing pathological aggregation of tau protein (e.g., in the central nervous system), methods of treating and/or preventing neurological disorders, and methods of promoting the degradation of tau protein by E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in a subject by administering a compound or composition described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION d/b/a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Stephen J. Haggarty, Quan Cai, Tinghu Zhang, Maria Catarina Telo Baptista Lima da Silva, Fleur M. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 11932625
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of Formulae (I?) and (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, osteosarcoma, brain cancer, ovarian cancer, neuroblastoma, lung cancer, colorectal cancer), benign neoplasms, diseases associated with angiogenesis, inflammatory diseases, autoinflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases) in a subject. Treatment of a subject with a proliferative disease using a compound or composition of the invention may inhibit the aberrant activity of a kinase, such as a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Baishan Jiang, Nicholas Paul Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 11932646
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel heteroaryl compounds of formula (VII). Such compounds are useful for the treatment of cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Jianming Zhang, Barun Okram, Xianming Deng, Jae Won Chang, Amy Wojciechowski
  • Publication number: 20240083847
    Abstract: DCAF15 is a substrate recognition (adaptor) protein of E3 ubiquitin ligase. Disclosed herein are compounds that recruit ubiquitin ligase CRL4DCAF15, to a target RNA recognition motif (RRM), causing its degradation. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods of use in treating associated disorders and diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Eric Fischer, Hojong Yoon, Tinghu Zhang, Tyler Faust, Katherine Donovan, Quan Cai, Zhengnian Li
  • Publication number: 20240034726
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the disclosed compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., inflammatory diseases, neurological diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), infectious diseases (e.g., viral infections (e.g., infections caused by viral human hepatitis (e.g., hepatitis B), a flaviviridae family virus (e.g., a flavivims (e.g., Zika virus)))), and proliferative diseases (e.g., cancer (e.g., lung cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, leukemia, or lymphoma)) in a subject. Provided are methods of inhibiting a protein kinase (e.g., MAP2K (e.g., MKK7)) in a subject. Also provided are methods of inhibiting MKK7 in a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Steven P. Treon, Jinhua Wang, Li Tan, Guang Yang
  • Patent number: 11878019
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of increasing skin pigmentation in a subject in need thereof using salt-inducible kinase (SIK) inhibitors, such as macrocyclic compounds of Formula (I), bicyclic urea compounds of Formula (II), (III), and (IV), and compounds of Formula (V), (VI), (VI-A), or (VII). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Fisher, Nisma Mujahid, Ryo Murakami, Nathanael S. Gray, Yanke Liang, Hwan Geun Choi
  • Patent number: 11858897
    Abstract: The application relates to a compound of Formula (I): which modulates the activity of ALK or SRPK, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a method of treating or preventing a disease in which ALK or SRPK plays a role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hatcher, Nathanael S. Gray, Hwangeun Choi, Pasi Janne, Tinghu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230399304
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds that are capable of inhibiting creatine kinase. The present disclosure also relates to methods of treating cancer, such as hematological malignancies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Edward Chouchani, Tinghu Zhang, Narek Darabedian, Wenzhi JI, Jianwei Che
  • Publication number: 20230391768
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I?) (e.g., compounds of Formula (I)), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The provided compounds may be kinase (e.g., Janus kinase (JAK), e.g., Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)) inhibitors. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and kits including the provided compounds. Further provided are methods of using the provided compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits (e.g., for treating a disease (e.g., proliferative disease) in a subject in need thereof).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Yao Liu, Zhixiang He, Mingfeng Hao, David Weinstock, Loretta Sze-Mun Li
  • Patent number: 11826365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds which are able to modulate b-raf kinases, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Hwan Geun Choi, Xianming Deng, Jianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11827636
    Abstract: The present application provides bifunctional compounds of Formula (Ia) or (Ib): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, prodrug, stereoisomer, or tautomer thereof, which act as protein degradation inducing moieties for cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8). The present application also relates to methods for the targeted degradation of CDK8 through the use of the bifunctional compounds that link a ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety to a ligand that is capable of binding to CDK8 which can be utilized in the treatment of disorders modulated by CDK8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Calla M. Olson, Yanke Liang, Nicholas Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: RE50030
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of any one of Formulae (A), (I-11), (II), and (V) (e.g., compounds of Formula (A-1)-(A-18)), and methods for treating Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM) and other B cell neoplasm in a subject using the compounds. The methods comprise administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of the compounds. Also provided are methods to treat B cell neoplasms using the compounds in combination with inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK1), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 4 (IRAK4), bone marrow on X chromosome kinase (BMX), phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), transforming growth factor b-activated kinase-1 (TAK1), and/or a Src family kinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Treon, Sara Jean Buhrlage, Nathanael S. Gray, Li Tan, Guang Yang