Patents by Inventor Rachel Wright

Rachel Wright 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).

  • Treatment of bacterial induced diseases using DNA methyl transferase inhibitors
    Publication number: 20050227933
    Abstract: Methods for treating and/or preventing disease conditions caused or induced or aggravated by microbes, especially bacteria, by inhibiting DNA methyltransferase activity, such as by administering to an animal a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor, are disclosed, along with methods of reducing or ablating virulence in bacteria by inhibiting DNA methyltransferase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Benkovic, Lucy Shapiro, Rachel Wright, Craig Stephens, Lyn Kahng, Anthony Berdis, Irene Lee
  • Molecules for disease detection and treatment
    Publication number: 20050095587
    Abstract: The present invention provides purified disease detection and treatment molecule polynucleotides (mddt). Also encompassed are the polypeptides (MDDT) encoded by mddt. The invention also provides for the use of mddt, or complements, oligonucleotides, or fragments thereof in diagnostic assays. The invention further provides for vectors and host cells containing mddt for the expression of MDDT. The invention additionally provides for the use of isolated and purified MDDT to induce anitbodies and to screen libraries of compounds and the use of anti-MDDT antibodies in diagnostic assays. Also provided are microarrays containing mddt and methods of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Panzer, Peter Shapiro, Steven Banville, Purvi Shah, Michael Chalup, Simon Chang, Alice Chen, Steven D'sa, Stefan Amshey, Christopher Dahl, Tam Dam, Susan Daniels, Gerard Dufour, Vincent Flores, Willy Fong, Lila Greenawalt, Jennifer Jackson, Anissa Jones, Tommy Liu, Ann Roseberry Lincoln, Bruce Rosen, Frank Russo, Theresa Stockdreher, Abel Daffo, Rachel Wright, Pierre Yap, Jimmy Yu, Diana Bradley, Shawn Bratcher, Wensheng Chen, Howard Cohen, David Hodgson, Stephen Lincoln, Stuart Jackson
  • DNA adenine methyltransferases and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6413751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and sequencing of a novel class of methyltransferase genes, including the methyltransferase gene from Rhizobium meliloti, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Brucella abortus, and Helicobacter pylori. The invention further comprises efficient methods of assaying methyltransferase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Benkovic, Anthony Berdis, Irene Lee, Lucy Shapiro, Rachel Wright, Craig Stephens, Lyn Sue Kahng