Patents by Inventor Peter Scherrer

Peter Scherrer 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: 20120114831
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 8021686
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 7422902
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer
  • Publication number: 20080200417
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 7341738
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Publication number: 20070172950
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicants: The University of British Columbia, INEX Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wheeler, Marcel Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer
  • Patent number: 6986902
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the amphiphilic polyelectrolyte, poly(2-ethylacrylic acid) and covalently bonded lipids to generate Lipo-PEAA. These Lipo-PEAA are then used to make pH-sensitive liposomes which become unstable, permeable or fusogenic with certain pH changes. In addition, this invention generally describes methods for delivering therapeutic compounds and drugs to target cells by administering to a host the pH-sensitive liposomes of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Yuehua He, Peter Cullis, Thomas Madden, Peter Scherrer, David Tirrell, Phalgun Joshi, Jung Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20050255153
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Sean Semple, Sandra Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael Hope, Steven Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 6858225
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Publication number: 20050008689
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Sean Semple, Sandra Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael Hope, Steven Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 6835395
    Abstract: Lipidic compositions with superior characteristics for in vivo delivery of oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) can easily and efficiently be made in the form of small multilamellar vesicles. The compositions contain a population of nucleic acid-containing lipid vesicles in a liquid carrier, and at least a portion of the lipid vesicles are small multilamellar vesicles. The small multilamellar vesicles are made from a lipid component including 20-30 mol % of an ionizable amino lipid such as DODAP, and a steric barrier lipid such as PEG-CerC14; and an oligodeoxynucleotide contained in the lumen or interlamellar spaces of the small multilamellar vesicles. The ODN and lipid components are preferably present in the small multilamellar vesicles in a mole ratio of from 0.15 to 0.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy O. Harasym, Nancy Dos Santos, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter R Cullis, Michael J. Hope, Peter Scherrer, Deirdre McIntosh, Kim F. Wong, Norbert Maurer
  • Patent number: 6734171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid-based formulations for nucleic acid delivery to cells, methods for the preparation of such formulations and, in particular, to lipid encapsulated plasmids. The compositions are safe and practical for clinical use. In addition, the present invention provides methods for introducing nucleic acids into cells and for inhibiting tumor growth in cells using such lipid-nucleic acid formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Edward George Saravolac, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Jeffery J. Wheeler, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Ljiljana D. Kojic, Olga Ludkovski
  • Publication number: 20030129221
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 6586410
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer
  • Publication number: 20030035829
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for delivering nucleic acid catalysts e.g., vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGF-R-1) ribozyme, into a biological system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND CREW
    Inventors: SEAN C. SEMPLE, SANDRA K. KLIMUK, PETER SCHERRER, MICHAEL J. HOPE, YUAN-PENG ZHANG, MARK REYNOLDS, JOHN MIN
  • Patent number: 6287591
    Abstract: Lipid-therapeutic agent particles are prepared containing a charged therapeutic agent encapsulated in lipid portion containing at least two lipid components including a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid such as an amino lipid and a lipid that prevents particle aggregation during lipid-therapeutic agent particle formation such as a PEG-modified or polyamide oligomer-modified lipid. Other lipid components may also be present and these include a neutral lipid such as DSPC, POPC, DOPE or SM, and a sterol such as Chol. The therapeutic agent is encapsulated by combining a mixture of the lipids with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent to form an intermediate mixture containing lipid-encapsulated therapeutic agent particles, and changing the pH of the intermediate mixture to neutralize at least some surface charges on the particles. The method permits high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Sean C. Semple, Sandra K. Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael J. Hope, Steven M. Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 6110745
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel Solvent Extraction and Direct Hydration (SEDH) method for preparing lipid-nucleic acid particles which are useful for the introduction of nucleic acids (e.g., plasmid DNA, antisense molecules, ribozymes, etc.) into cells. The lipid-nucleic acid particles prepared using the methods of the present invention have enhanced circulation characteristics and serum stability and, thus, they are extremely effective as nucleic acid delivery vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Yuan-Peng Zhang, Peter Scherrer, Michael J. Hope
  • Patent number: 5976567
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer