Patents by Inventor Zhongxu Ren
Zhongxu Ren 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).
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Publication number: 20230372500Abstract: Provided are multi-arm polymer conjugates of Toll-Like Receptor (“TLR”) agonists such as TLR 7/8 agonists, as well as related compositions, and methods of making and using such conjugates. Exemplary conjugates are encompassed by Formula I: RQ-POLY-Xr-TLR7/8 AG)q??Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt form thereof, where R, taken together with each Q, is a residue of a polyol, polythiol, or polyamine bearing from 3 to about 50 hydroxyl, thiol, or amino groups; each Q is a linker selected from oxygen, sulfur and —NH; each POLY is independently a water-soluble, non-peptidic polymer; each Xr is independently a linkage-containing spacer moiety; q is a positive integer from 3 to about 50; and each TLR 7/8 AG is a Toll-like receptor 7/8 agonist.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Zhongxu Ren, Neel K. Anand, Haiying Cai, Bo-Liang Deng, Bhalchandra V. Joshi, Jonathan Zalevsky, Takahiro Miyazaki, Saul Kivimae
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Patent number: 11744898Abstract: Provided are multi-arm polymer conjugates of Toll-Like Receptor (“TLR”) agonists such as TLR 7/8 agonists, as well as related compositions, and methods of making and using such conjugates. Exemplary conjugates are encompassed by Formula I: (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt form thereof, where R, taken together with each Q, is a residue of a polyol, polythiol, or polyamine bearing from 3 to about 50 hydroxyl, thiol, or amino groups; each Q is a linker selected from oxygen, sulfur and —NH; each POLY is independently a water-soluble, non-peptidic polymer; each Xr is independently a linkage-containing spacer moiety; q is a positive integer from 3 to about 50; and each TLR 7/8 AG is a Toll-like receptor 7/8 agonist. Also provided is a method of administering to a patient having cancer (a) an IL-2R?-activating amount of a long-acting, IL-2R?-selective agonist; and (b) a Toll-like receptor agonist such as a conjugate as described above, as well as related compositions, kits and methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Zhongxu Ren, Neel K. Anand, Haiying Cai, Bo-Liang Deng, Bhalchandra V. Joshi, Jonathan Zalevsky, Takahiro Miyazaki, Saul Kivimae
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Publication number: 20220235056Abstract: The instant disclosure provides novel adenosine receptor antagonist compounds, compositions, methods of making and methods of using. In a further aspect, a method of treating a subject in need thereof, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of any one or more of the compounds described herein. In some embodiments, the subject has cancer and the method is a method of treating cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Neel K. Anand, Natalia Aurrecoechea, Anthony James Brockway, Haiying Cai, Lin Cheng, Bo-Liang Deng, Donogh John Roger O'Mahony, Zhongxu Ren, Wen Zhang
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Publication number: 20220079936Abstract: Provided herein are water-soluble prodrugs, compositions comprising such prodrugs, and related methods of making and administering the same. The prodrugs of the invention comprise a water-soluble polymer having three or more arms, at least three of which are typically covalently attached to an active agent, e.g., a small molecule. The conjugates of the invention provide an optimal balance of polymer size and structure for achieving improved drug loading, since the conjugates of the invention possess three or more active agents releasably attached to a multi-armed water-soluble polymer. The prodrugs of the invention are therapeutically effective, and exhibit improved properties in-vivo when compared to unmodified parent drug.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Michael D. Bentley, Zhongxu Ren, Tacey X. Viegas
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Publication number: 20210292425Abstract: Provided is a method of administering to a patient having cancer: (a) a 4-1BB agonist; (b) an IL-2R?-activating amount of a long-acting, IL-2R?-selective agonist; and/or (c) a toll-like receptor agonist, as well as related compositions, kits and compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2018Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Saul Kivimae, Marlene Hennessy, Neel K. Anand, Haiying Cai, Bo-Liang Deng, Zhongxu Ren, Bhalchandra V. Joshi
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Patent number: 11111214Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof: The compounds of Formula I described herein relate to and/or have application(s) in (among others) the fields of drug discovery, pharmacotherapy, physiology, organic chemistry and polymer chemistry.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Neel K. Anand, Franco J. Duarte, Wen Zhang, Zhongxu Ren
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Publication number: 20210130467Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods in the field of cancer immunotherapy that involve the treatment of a subject having cancer by administering to the subject a toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) agonist in combination with a long-acting IL-2R?-biased agonist and a programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death protein ligand 1 (PD-L1) axis inhibitor, and related compositions, dosage forms, and kits.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Jonathan Zalevsky, Neel K. Anand, Haiying Cai, Bo-Liang Deng, Zhongxu Ren, Bhalchandra V. Joshi, Mary Tagliaferri, Werner Rubas, Saul Kivimae, Rhoneil L. Pena
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Publication number: 20210128737Abstract: Provided are multi-arm polymer conjugates of Toll-Like Receptor (“TLR”) agonists such as TLR 7/8 agonists, as well as related compositions, and methods of making and using such conjugates. Exemplary conjugates are encompassed by Formula I: (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt form thereof, where R, taken together with each Q, is a residue of a polyol, polythiol, or polyamine bearing from 3 to about 50 hydroxyl, thiol, or amino groups; each Q is a linker selected from oxygen, sulfur and —NH; each POLY is independently a water-soluble, non-peptidic polymer; each Xr is independently a linkage-containing spacer moiety; q is a positive integer from 3 to about 50; and each TLR 7/8 AG is a Toll-like receptor 7/8 agonist. Also provided is a method of administering to a patient having cancer (a) an IL-2R?-activating amount of a long-acting, IL-2R?-selective agonist; and (b) a Toll-like receptor agonist such as a conjugate as described above, as well as related compositions, kits and methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Zhongxu Ren, Neel K. Anand, Haiying Cai, Bo-Liang Deng, Bhalchandra V. Joshi, Jonathan Zalevsky, Takahiro Miyazaki, Saul Kivimae
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Patent number: 10844076Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to (among other things) compounds that are derivatives of 6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-amine. The compounds provided possess unique effects and differences over other phenyltriazines known in the art.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Nektar therapeuticsInventors: Pankaj Sharma, Vijay Kumar Khatri, Xuyuan Gu, Yuan Song, Michael Lixin Shen, Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier, Neel K. Anand, Antoni Kozlowski, Aleksandrs Odinecs, Timothy A. Riley, Zhongxu Ren, YongQi Mu, Xiaoming Shen, Xuejun Yuan, Natalia Aurrecoechea, Donogh John Roger O'Mahony, Bo-Liang Deng
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Publication number: 20200016149Abstract: Provided herein are water-soluble prodrugs, compositions comprising such prodrugs, and related methods of making and administering the same. The prodrugs of the invention comprise a water-soluble polymer having three or more arms, at least three of which are typically covalently attached to an active agent, e.g., a small molecule. The conjugates of the invention provide an optimal balance of polymer size and structure for achieving improved drug loading, since the conjugates of the invention possess three or more active agents releasably attached to a multi-armed water-soluble polymer. The prodrugs of the invention are therapeutically effective, and exhibit improved properties in-vivo when compared to unmodified parent drug.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Michael D. Bentley, Zhongxu Ren, Tacey X. Viegas
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Publication number: 20190352291Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof. The compounds of Formula I described herein relate to and/or have application(s) in (among others) the fields of drug discovery, pharmacotherapy, physiology, organic chemistry and polymer chemistry.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Neel K. Anand, Franco J. Duarte, Wen Zhang, Zhongxu Ren
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Patent number: 10463659Abstract: Provided herein are water-soluble prodrugs, compositions comprising such prodrugs, and related methods of making and administering the same. The prodrugs of the invention comprise a water-soluble polymer having three or more arms, at least three of which are typically covalently attached to an active agent, e.g., a small molecule. The conjugates of the invention provide an optimal balance of polymer size and structure for achieving improved drug loading, since the conjugates of the invention possess three or more active agents releasably attached to a multi-armed water-soluble polymer. The prodrugs of the invention are therapeutically effective, and exhibit improved properties in-vivo when compared to unmodified parent drug.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Xuan Zhao, Michael D. Bentley, Zhongxu Ren, Tacey X. Viegas
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Patent number: 10407416Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described herein. The compounds of Formula I are agonists of the kappa opioid receptor and relate to and/or have application(s) in (among others) the fields of drug discovery, pharmacotherapy, physiology, organic chemistry and polymer chemistry.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Neel K. Anand, Franco J. Duarte, Wen Zhang, Zhongxu Ren
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Publication number: 20190071454Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to (among other things) compounds that are derivatives of 6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-amine. The compounds provided possess unique effects and differences over other phenyltriazines known in the art.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Pankaj Sharma, Vijay Kumar Khatri, Xuyuan Gu, Yuan Song, Michael Lixin Shen, Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier, Neel K. Anand, Antoni Kozlowski, Aleksandrs Odinecs, Timothy A. Riley, Zhongxu Ren, YongQi Mu, Xiaoming Shen, Xuejun Yuan, Natalia Aurrecoechea, Donogh John Roger O'Mahony, Bo-Liang Deng
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Patent number: 10189859Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to (among other things) compounds that are derivatives of 6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-amine. The compounds provided possess unique effects and differences over other phenyltriazines known in the art.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Pankaj Sharma, Vijay Kumar Khatri, Xuyuan Gu, Yuan Song, Michael Lixin Shen, Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier, Neel K. Anand, Antoni Kozlowski, Aleksandrs Odinecs, Timothy A. Riley, Zhongxu Ren, YongQi Mu, Xiaoming Shen, Xuejun Yuan, Natalia Aurrecoechea, Donogh John Roger O'Mahony, Bo-Liang Deng
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Publication number: 20180021444Abstract: Provided herein are water-soluble prodrugs, compositions comprising such prodrugs, and related methods of making and administering the same. The prodrugs of the invention comprise a water-soluble polymer having three or more arms, at least three of which are typically covalently attached to an active agent, e.g., a small molecule. The conjugates of the invention provide an optimal balance of polymer size and structure for achieving improved drug loading, since the conjugates of the invention possess three or more active agents releasably attached to a multi-armed water-soluble polymer. The prodrugs of the invention are therapeutically effective, and exhibit improved properties in-vivo when compared to unmodified parent drug.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Michael D. Bentley, Zhongxu Ren, Tacey X. Viegas
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Publication number: 20180016266Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described herein. The compounds of Formula I are agonists of the kappa opioid receptor and relate to and/or have application(s) in (among others) the fields of drug discovery, pharmacotherapy, physiology, organic chemistry and polymer chemistry.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Neel K. Anand, Franco J. Duarte, Wen Zhang, Zhongxu Ren
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Patent number: 9815824Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof. The present disclosure relates to novel compounds and to their use as agonists of the kappa opioid receptor. The disclosure also relates to methods for preparation of the compounds and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds. Kappa opioid agonists that exhibit full agonist properties at the kappa opioid receptor have been widely shown to be efficacious in preclinical models of pain, particularly visceral pain.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Neel K. Anand, Franco J. Duarte, Wen Zhang, Zhongxu Ren
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Patent number: 9808533Abstract: Provided herein are water-soluble prodrugs, compositions comprising such prodrugs, and related methods of making and administering the same. The prodrugs of the invention comprise a water-soluble polymer having three or more arms, at least three of which are typically covalently attached to an active agent, e.g., a small molecule. The conjugates of the invention provide an optimal balance of polymer size and structure for achieving improved drug loading, since the conjugates of the invention possess three or more active agents releasably attached to a multi-armed water-soluble polymer. The prodrugs of the invention are therapeutically effective, and exhibit improved properties in-vivo when compared to unmodified parent drug.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Nektar TherapeuticsInventors: Xuan Zhao, Michael David Bentley, Zhongxu Ren, Tacey X. Viegas
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Publication number: 20170066782Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to (among other things) compounds that are derivatives of 6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-amine. The compounds provided possess unique effects and differences over other phenyltriazines known in the art.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Pankaj Sharma, Vijay Kumar Khatri, Xuyuan Gu, Yuan Song, Michael Lixin Shen, Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier, Neel K. Anand, Antoni Kozlowski, Aleksandrs Odinecs, Timothy A. Riley, Zhongxu Ren, YongQi Mu, Xiaoming Shen, Xuejun Yuan, Natalia Aurrecoechea, Donogh John Roger O'Mahony