Patents by Inventor Sakari Kauppinen

Sakari Kauppinen 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).

  • Patent number: 9790493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to very short heavily modified oligonucleotides which target and inhibit microRNAs in vivo, and their use in medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S
    Inventors: Susanna Obad, Sakari Kauppinen, Joacim Elmen, Morten Lindow, Markus Heidenblad
  • Publication number: 20160355804
    Abstract: There is provided nucleic acids (mir-138Antimirs) for use in treating or preventing bone loss in a patient. Also there is provided a method for reducing the levels of endogenous mir-138 in a cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Moustapha KASSEM, Basem ABDALLAH, Hanna TAIPALEENMAEKI, Sakari KAUPPINEN, Tilde ESKILDSEN, Jan STENVANG
  • Patent number: 9464106
    Abstract: The invention features improved nucleic acids and methods for expression profiling of mRNAs, identifying and profiling of particular mRNA splice variants, and detecting mutations, deletions, or duplications of particular exons or other splice variants, e.g., alterations associated with a disease such as cancer, in a nucleic acid sample, e.g., a biological sample or a patient sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Exiqon A/S
    Inventors: Sakari Kauppinen, Carsten Alsbo, Peter S. Nielsen, Daniel C. Jeffares, Tobias Mourier, Søren Mørk, Peter Arctander, Niels Tommerup, Niels Tolstrup, Henrik Vissing, Søren Morgenthaler Echwald
  • Publication number: 20160060627
    Abstract: The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 17 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogues into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Joacim ELMEN, Phil Kearney, Sakari Kauppinen
  • Publication number: 20150299699
    Abstract: The present invention relates to very short heavily modified oligonucleotides which target and inhibit microRNAs in vivo, and their use in medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Susanna OBAD, Sakari Kauppinen, Joacim Elmén, Morten Lindow, Markus Heidenblad
  • Patent number: 9133455
    Abstract: The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogs into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S
    Inventors: Joacim Elmén, Phil Kearney, Sakari Kauppinen
  • Patent number: 9056135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel molecular markers for diagnosis and classification of human breast cancer and lung cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignees: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Koebenhavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
    Inventors: Ethan Dmitrovsky, Xi Liu, Sarah Freemantle, Lorenzo F. Sempere, Charles Cole, Sakari Kauppinen, Mads Bak, Mette Christensen
  • Patent number: 9034837
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods of treatment of HCV infected subjects that are not sensitive to interferon treatment. Further, compositions and methods are provided for prevention of organ transplant rejection. The compositions of the invention comprise an anti microRNA-122 oligonucleotide, and are made for administration to a primate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S
    Inventors: Elisabeth S. Hildebrandt-Eriksen, Andreas Petri, Sakari Kauppinen, Niels Abrahamsen, Robert Eldon Lanford
  • Patent number: 9023620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme preparations consisting essentially of an enzyme which has cellulytic activity, which perform very well in industrial applications such as laundry compositions, for biopolishing of newly manufactured textiles, for providing an abraded look of cellulosic fabric or garment, and for treatment of paper pulp. Further, the invention relates to DNA constructs encoding such enzymes, a method for providing a gene encoding for such enzymes, a method of producing the enzymes, enzyme preparations containing such enzymes, and the use of these enzymes for a number of industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Martin Schulein, Lene Nonboe Andersen, Soren Flensted Lassen, Markus Sakari Kauppinen, Lene Lange, Ruby Ilum Nielsen, Shinobu Takagi, Michiko Ihara
  • Patent number: 8906871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to very short heavily modified oligonucleotides which target and inhibit microRNAs in vivo, and their use in medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Susanna Obad, Sakari Kauppinen, Joacim Elmén, Morten Lindow, Markus Heidenblad
  • Publication number: 20140329883
    Abstract: The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogues into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Joacim ELMÉN, Phil Kearney, Sakari Kauppinen
  • Publication number: 20140194491
    Abstract: There is provided nucleic acids (mir-138 Antimirs) for use in treating or preventing bone loss in a patient. Also there is provided a method for reducing the levels of endogenous mir-138 in a cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET
    Inventors: Moustapha Kassem, Basem Abdallah, Hanna Taipaleenmaeki, Sakari Kauppinen, Tilde Eskildsen, Jan Stenvang
  • Patent number: 8729250
    Abstract: The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogues into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Inventors: Joacim Elmén, Phil Kearney, Sakari Kauppinen
  • Patent number: 8642730
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme preparations consisting essentially of an enzyme which has cellulytic activity and comprises a first amino acid sequence having the following sequence (SEQ ID NO: 79) Thr Arg Xaa Xaa Asp Cys Cys Xaa Xaa Xaa Cys Xaa 1???2???3???4???5???6???7???8???9???10??11??12 Trp Xaa 13??14 and a second amino acid sequence having the following sequence Trp Cys Cys Xaa Cys (SEQ ID NO: 80) 1???2???3???4???5 wherein, at position 3 of the first sequence, the amino acid is Trp, Tyr or Phe; at position 4 of the first sequence, the amino acid is Trp, Tyr or Phe; at position 8 of the first sequence, the amino acid is Arg, Lys or His; at positions 9, 10, 12 and 14, respectively, of the first sequence, and at position 4 of the second sequence, the amino acid is any of the 20 naturally occurring amino acid residues with the provisos that, in the first amino acid sequence, (i) when the amino residue at position 12 is Ser, then the amino acid resid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lene Nonboe Andersen, Soren Flensted Lassen, Markus Sakari Kauppinen, Lene Lange, Ruby Ilum Nielsen, Shinobu Takagi, Michiko Ihara, Torben Henriksen
  • Publication number: 20130330781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme preparations consisting essentially of an enzyme which has cellulytic activity, which perform very well in industrial applications such as laundry compositions, for biopolishing of newly manufactured textiles, for providing an abraded look of cellulosic fabric or garment, and for treatment of paper pulp. Further, the invention relates to DNA constructs encoding such enzymes, a method for providing a gene encoding for such enzymes, a method of producing the enzymes, enzyme preparations containing such enzymes, and the use of these enzymes for a number of industrial applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Martin Schulein, Lene Nonboe Andersen, Soren Flensted Lassen, Markus Sakari Kauppinen, Lene Lange, Ruby Ilum Nielsen, Shinobu Takagi, Michiko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20130296399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel molecular markers for diagnosis and classification of human breast cancer and lung cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Ethan Dmitrovsky, Xi Liu, Sarah Freemantle, Lorenzo F. Sempere, Charles Cole, Sakari Kauppinen, Mads Bak, Mette Christensen
  • Patent number: 8492357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the modulation of immunoregulatory proteins, including cytokines, such as colony stimulatory factors (CSF) via the use of microRNA-155 modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Worm, Jan Stenvang, Susanna Obad, Sakari Kauppinen
  • Patent number: 8404659
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods of treatment of diseases that are sensitive to drugs that downregulate the function of microRNA's, mRNA, non-coding RNA, or viral genomes. In particular, it has been discovered that a very long term effect of an anti microRNA oligonucleotide may be obtained when administered to a primate. Therefore, the present invention relate to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of primates, including humans wherein the compositions are administered with a long time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Sakari Kauppinen, Niels Abrahamsen, Elisabeth S. Hildebrandt-Eriksen, Martin Munk
  • Patent number: 8383344
    Abstract: The invention relates to ribonucleic acids, probes and methods for detection, quantification as well as monitoring the expression of mature microRNAs and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). The invention furthermore relates to methods for monitoring the expression of other non-coding RNAs, mRNA splice variants, as well as detecting and quantifying RNA editing, allelic variants of single transcripts, mutations, deletions, or duplications of particular exons in transcripts, e.g., alterations associated with human disease such as cancer. The invention furthermore relates to methods for detection, quantification as well as monitoring the expression of deoxy nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Exiqon A/S
    Inventors: Nana Jacobsen, Lars Kongsbak, Sakari Kauppinen, Søren Morgenthaler Echwald, Peter Mouritzen, Peter Stein Nielsen, Mikkel Nørholm
  • Patent number: 8361980
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods of treatment of diseases that are sensitive to drugs that downregulate the function of microRNA's, mRNA, non-coding RNA, or viral genomes. In particular, it has been discovered that a very long term effect of an anti microRNA oligonucleotide may be obtained when administered to a primate. Therefore, the present invention relate to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of primates, including humans wherein the compositions are administered with a long time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Santaris Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Sakari Kauppinen, Niels Abrahamsen, Elisabeth Hildebrandt-Eriksen, Martin Munk