Patents by Inventor Walter Muir

Walter Muir 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).

  • Method for diagnosis and treatment of a mental disease
    Publication number: 20090221670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to association of one or more polymorphisms located in the human NHP2L1, PACSIN2, SERHL, PIPPIN, BRD1, EP300, FAM19A5 and/or GPR24 genes to the occurrence of schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder. The invention relates both to methods for diagnosing a predisposition to said diseases and for treating subjects having said diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicants: Aarhus Universitet, Region Midtjyliand
    Inventors: Anders Borglum, Jacob Severinsen, Henrik Ewald, Ole Mors, Walter Muir, Douglas Blackwood
  • Schizophrenia associated genes
    Publication number: 20060088835
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of genes which have been disrupted in patients diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and/or bi-polar affective disorder, as well as proteins encoded by the gene and antibodies thereto and to uses of such products as medicaments for treating schizophrenia and/or affective psychosis. The invention also relates to methods for diagnosing, patients suffering or predisposed to schizophrenia and/or affective psychosis, as well as screens for developing novel treatment regimes for schizophrenia and/or affective psychosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Benjamin Pickard, Douglas Blackwood, David Porteous, Walter Muir, Ole Mors, Henrik Ewald