Patents by Inventor Yanke Liang

Yanke Liang 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: 20250115580
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and their pharmaceutical compositions that can be administered to a host such as a human in need thereof for the treatment of a disorder, such as cancer, mediated by mutant BRAF. The compounds efficiently degrade Class I, II and III mutant BRAF proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: C4 THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Nasveschuk, Katrina L. Jackson, Yanke Liang, Martin Duplessis, Mark E. Fitzgerald, Cosimo Dolente, David Stephen Hewings, Daniel Hunziker, Daniela Krummenacher, Piergiorgio Francesco Tommaso Pettazzoni, Juergen Wichmann
  • Publication number: 20250101037
    Abstract: This invention provides Degronimers that have E3 Ubiquitin Ligase targeting moieties (Degrons) that can be linked to a targeting ligand for a protein that has been selected for in vivo degradation, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation. The invention also provides Degrons that can be used to treat disorders mediated by cereblon or an Ikaros family protein, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: C4 THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Minsheng He, Martin Duplessis, Chi-Li Chen
  • Publication number: 20250057957
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds that have spirocyclic E3 Ubiquitin Ligase targeting moieties (Degrons), which can be used as is or linked to a targeting ligand for a protein that has been selected for in vivo degradation, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: C4 THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Kiel Lazarski, Ryan E. Michael
  • Patent number: 12209091
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds which are selective allosteric inhibitors of T790M/L858R, T790M/L858R/C797S, L858R, L858R/C797S containing EGFR mutants, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as therapeutically active substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Duplessis, Annick Goergler, Georg Jaeschke, Buelent Kocer, Bernd Kuhn, Kiel Lazarski, Yanke Liang, Yvonne Alice Nagel, Ulrike Obst Sander, Antonio Ricci, Daniel Rueher, Sandra Steiner
  • Patent number: 12209076
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides imidazolyl compounds of Formula (I) and methods of preparing the compounds. The provided compounds are able to bind protein kinases and may be useful in modulating (e.g., inhibiting) the activity of a protein kinase in a subject or cell and/or in treating or preventing a disease (e.g., proliferative disease, genetic disease, hematological disease, neurological disease, painful condition, psychiatric disorder, or metabolic disorder) in a subject in need thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Hwan Geun Choi, Yanke Liang
  • Patent number: 12180225
    Abstract: This invention provides Degronimers that have E3 Ubiquitin Ligase targeting moieties (Degrons) that can be linked to a targeting ligand for a protein that has been selected for in vivo degradation, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation. The invention also provides Degrons that can be used to treat disorders mediated by cereblon or an Ikaros family protein, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Minsheng He, Martin Duplessis, Chi-Li Chen
  • Patent number: 12168663
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel 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 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, 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: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Yanke Liang, Tinghu Zhang, Nicholas Paul Kwiatkowski
  • Publication number: 20240398959
    Abstract: This invention provides Degronimers that have carbon-linked E3 Ubiquitin Ligase targeting moieties (Degrons), which can be linked to a targeting ligand for a protein that has been selected for in vivo degradation, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: C4 THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Minsheng He, Kiel Lazarski, Gesine Kerstin Veits, Harit U. Vora
  • Patent number: 12121521
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of treating and/or preventing osteoporosis using salt-inducible kinase (SIK) inhibitors. Also provided are methods of using SIK inhibitors for increasing the function of osteocytes, increasing the number of osteoblasts, increasing the activity of osteoblasts, inhibiting the resorption of a bone, decreasing the number of osteoclasts, inhibiting the activity of osteoclasts, increasing the mass of a bone, down-regulating the expression of the gene SOST, and/or inhibiting the activity of sclerostin. The SIK inhibitors may be combined with Src inhibitors or CSF1R inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, The Broad Institute, Inc., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Wein, Henry Kronenberg, Thomas Sundberg, Ramnik Xavier, Nathanael S. Gray, Yanke Liang, Hwan Geun Choi, Alykhan Shamji
  • Patent number: 12076405
    Abstract: This invention provides heterocyclic compounds that bind to E3 Ubiquitin Ligase (typically through cereblon) (“Degrons”), which can be used as is or linked to a Targeting Ligand for a selected Target Protein for therapeutic purposes and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Mark E. Fitzgerald, Minsheng He, Ryan E. Michael
  • Patent number: 12048748
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds that have spirocyclic E3 Ubiquitin Ligase targeting moieties (Degrons), which can be used as is or linked to a targeting ligand for a protein that has been selected for in vivo degradation, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Kiel Lazarski, Ryan E. Michael
  • Patent number: 12048747
    Abstract: This invention provides amine-linked C3-glutarimide Degronimers for therapeutic applications as described further herein, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation, wherein the C3-glutarimide Degronimers have the formula:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Chi-Li Chen, Martin Duplessis, Minsheng He, Kiel Lazarski
  • 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: 20240199581
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and their pharmaceutical compositions that can be administered to a host such as a human in need thereof for the treatment of a disorder, such as cancer, mediated by mutant BRAF. The compounds efficiently degrade Class I, II and III mutant BRAF proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Nasveshuk, Katrina L. Jackson, Yanke Liang, Robert T. Yu, Martin Duplessis, Mark E. Fitzgerald, Victoria Garza, Andrew Charles Good, Morgan Welzel O'Shea, Gesine Kerstin Veits, Cosimo Dolente, David Stephen Hewings, Daniel Hunziker, Daniela Krummenacher, Piergiorgio Franceso Tommaso Pettazzoni, Juergen Wichmann
  • Patent number: 11992531
    Abstract: This invention provides Degronimers that have carbon-linked E3 Ubiquitin Ligase targeting moieties (Degrons), which can be linked to a targeting ligand for a protein that has been selected for in vivo degradation, and methods of use and compositions thereof as well as methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Phillips, Christopher G. Nasveschuk, James A. Henderson, Yanke Liang, Minsheng He, Kiel Lazarski, Gesine Kerstin Veits, Harit U. Vora
  • Publication number: 20240158418
    Abstract: The invention provides for the treatment of mutant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mediated cancer that has metastasized to the brain or other area of the central nervous system with a compound that degrades a mutant form of EGFR via the ubiquitination of the EGFR protein and subsequent proteasomal degradation. The invention also provides advantageous drug combinations for the treatment of such cancer that include a compound herein that degrades a mutant form of EGFR in combination with a second anti-cancer agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Nasveschuk, Martin Duplessis, Jae Young Ahn, Alexander W. Hird, Ryan E. Michael, Kiel Lazarski, Yanke Liang, Georg Jaeschke, Antonio Ricci, Annick Goergler, Daniel Rueher
  • Publication number: 20240076300
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds that degrade the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) including mutant forms via the ubiquitination of the EGFR protein and subsequent proteasomal degradation. The compounds are useful for the treatment of various cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Nasveschuk, Martin Duplessis, Jae Young Ahn, Alexander W. Hird, Ryan E. Michael, Kiel Lazarski, Yanke Liang, Georg Jaeschke, Antonio Ricci, Annick Goergler, Daniel Rueher
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20230372496
    Abstract: Heterobifunctional compounds for targeted protein degradation that include a tricyclic cereblon binder linked to an appropriate protein targeting ligand to degrade a targeted disease-mediating protein of interest are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: C4 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Nasveschuk, Corey Don Anderson, James A. Henderson, Victoria Garza, Yanke Liang, Moses Moustakim, Katrina L. Jackson, Martin Duplessis