Attached To Antibody Or Antibody Fragment Or Immunoglobulin; Derivative Patents (Class 424/1.49)
  • Publication number: 20130202528
    Abstract: Methods of inhibiting pathological angiogenesis in a subject are disclosed. In particular examples, the method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition to a subject wherein the composition includes a specific binding agent that preferentially binds to one or more pathological angiogenesis marker proteins including Vscp, CD276, ETSvg4 (Pea3), CD137 (4-1BB), MiRP2, Ubiquitin D (Fat10), Doppel (prion-PLP), Apelin, Plgf, Ptpm (IA-2), CD109, Ankylosis, and collagen VIII?1. In additional examples, methods to deliver a therapeutic agent to a brain or liver endothelial cell are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of
    Inventor: The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Departme
  • Publication number: 20130202527
    Abstract: The invention described herein is related to antibodies directed to the antigen TIM-1 and uses of such antibodies for the treatment of cancer (e.g., renal and ovarian cancer). In particular, there are provided fully human monoclonal antibodies directed to the antigen TIM-1. Isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding, and amino acid sequences comprising, heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules, particularly sequences corresponding to contiguous heavy and light chain sequences spanning the framework regions (FR's) and/or complementarity determining regions (CDR's), specifically from FR1 through FR4 or CDR1 through CDR3, are provided. Hybridomas or other cell lines expressing such immunoglobulin molecules and monoclonal antibodies are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventor: Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130195756
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention comprises a ligand of Formula I wherein R1 and R2 are independently an alkyl or cycloalkyl; R3 is and alkyl; X is CO or SO2; Y is (CH2)n, C6H4, (OCH2CH2)n(NHCH2CH2)n and (OCH2CH2CH2)n, or a combination thereof; Z is linker group capable of conjugating to a vector; and n is an integer between 0 and 10. Also included are an imaging agent comprising a compound of Formula I complexed to 99mTc and their method of use to image a subject having a target site using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bruce Fletcher Johnson, Randall Lee Carter, Michael James Rishel, Mark Christopher Patrick Darey, Tao Wu, Yang Yang, John Fitzmaurice Valliant, Karin Ann Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8496912
    Abstract: The present application discloses compositions and methods of synthesis and use involving click chemistry reactions for in vivo or in vitro formation of therapeutic and/or diagnostic complexes. Preferably, the diagnostic complex is of use for 18F imaging, while the therapeutic complex is of use for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs or toxins. More preferably, a chelating moiety or targetable construct may be conjugated to a targeting molecule, such as an antibody or antibody fragment, using a click chemistry reaction involving cyclooctyne, nitrone or azide reactive moieties. In most preferred embodiments, the click chemistry reaction occurs in vivo. In vivo click chemistry is not limited to 18F labeling but can be used for delivering a variety of therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Immunomedics, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. McBride, Christopher A. D'Souza, David M. Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 8486409
    Abstract: The present invention discloses alpha particle emitting, radioactive constructs capable of killing large tumors (>1 mm in diameter), or other cells involved in human or animal diseases such as virus infected cells, autoimmune cells, or other pathological cells, including normal cells, that are targets for destruction, to achieve a therapeutic result. The alpha-emitting constructs have high specific activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: David A. Scheinberg, Michael R. McDevitt, Dangshe Ma, George Sgouros
  • Publication number: 20130177500
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel compositions comprising anti-DEspR antibodies and fragments thereof, including fully human, composite engineered human, humanized, monoclonal, and polyclonal anto-DEspR antibodies and fragments thereof, and methods of their use in a variety of therapeutic applications. The compositions comprising the anti-DEspR antibodies and fragments thereof described herein are useful in diagnostic and imaging methods, such as DEspR-targeted molecular imaging of angiogenesis, and for companion diagnostic and/or in vivo-non invasive imaging and/or assessments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Trustee of Boston University
    Inventors: Nelson Ruiz-Opaz, Victoria L.M. Herrera
  • Publication number: 20130171065
    Abstract: The present application discloses compositions and methods of synthesis and use involving click chemistry reactions for in vivo or in vitro formation of therapeutic and/or diagnostic complexes. Preferably, the diagnostic complex is of use for 18F imaging, while the therapeutic complex is of use for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs or toxins. More preferably, a chelating moiety or targetable construct may be conjugated to a targeting molecule, such as an antibody or antibody fragment, using a click chemistry reaction involving cyclooctyne, nitrone or azide reactive moieties. In most preferred embodiments, the click chemistry reaction occurs in vivo. In vivo click chemistry is not limited to 18F labeling but can be used for delivering a variety of therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: IMMUNOMEDICS, INC.
    Inventor: Immunomedics, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130171061
    Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosure provides an amino sequence of an anti-human transferrin receptor antibody, including: an amino sequence of a heavy chain variable region which is represented by SEQ ID NO.: 1 or SEQ ID NO.: 2, wherein the anti-human transferrin receptor antibody is capable of specifically binding to a human transferrin receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Ming-Hua YANG, Min-Yuan Chou, Hsiang-Ching Wang
  • Publication number: 20130171063
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies that specifically bind to unprocessed c-Met present on the surface of tumor cells. These antibodies are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer or as agents for delivering moieties to cancer cells. The antibodies of the present invention may also be used in therapy in combination with chemotherapeutics or anti-cancer agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Terrance Grant Johns, Ermanno Gherardi, Andrew Mark Scott
  • Publication number: 20130171062
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis in a mammalian subject. Further provided are methods of monitoring the course of eosinophilic esophagitis in a subject diagnosed with the disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Leonard Franklin Pease, III, Kathryn Peterson, Gerald J. Gleich
  • Publication number: 20130171064
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions that include anti-CD74 immunoconjugates and optionally a therapeutic and/or diagnostic agent. In preferred embodiments, the immunoconjugates comprise one or more anti-CD74 antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof, conjugated to a carrier such as a polymer, nanoparticle, complex or micelle. Also disclosed are methods for preparing the immunoconjugates and using the immunoconjugates in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In certain preferred embodiments, the therapeutic methods comprise administering to a subject with a CD74-expressing disease an anti-CD74 immunoconjugate and thereby inducing cell death of CD74-expressing cells. In more preferred embodiments, the CD74 immunoconjugate is capable of inducing cell death in the absence of any other therapeutic agent, although such agents may be optionally administered prior to, together with or subsequent to administration of the anti-CD74 immunoconjugate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: IMMUNOMEDICS, INC.
    Inventor: Immunomedics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8475763
    Abstract: A method for detecting antigen associated with adenocarcinoma commences by forming a 124I conjugate of a preferential locator, such as an antibody, and introducing the conjugate into a patient suspected of having adenocarcinoma. Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning of the patient reveals sites of accumulated conjugate, such sites including lymph nodes. The course of treatment of the patient then is determined by the amount of revealed lymph nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Actis, Ltd.
    Inventor: Marlin O. Thurston
  • Publication number: 20130164216
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are an aberrantly glycosylated integrin, AG-?3?1, and use thereof as a bladder cancer marker. Also provided in the present invention are a hybridoma cell generating an anti-AG-?3?1 monoclonal antibody, a monoclonal antibody BCMab1 secreted by the same, and use of BCMab1 in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of bladder cancer. Also provided in the present invention is use of inhibitors of GAL3ST2 and N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of bladder cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Institute Of Biophysics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences
    Inventors: Chong Li, Zusen Fan, Honglian Zhang, Zhonghua Dai, Haidong Tang, Jun Chen
  • Publication number: 20130164215
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for diagnosing, treating, and preventing cancer, particularly ovarian cancer and uterine cancer, based on the discovery that the oocyte specific protein, SAS1R (Sperm Acrosomal SLL-P1 Receptor), which is a sperm protein receptor, is also expressed in various cancers, including ovarian cancer and uterine cancer. Six SAS1R variants have been previously identified, and they are encompassed by the invention. The present invention further provides antibodies useful for targeting SAS1R expressing cells and for killing such cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: University of Virginia Patent Foundation,d/b/a University of Virginia Licensing & VenturesGroup
    Inventors: John C. Herr, Eusebio S. Pires
  • Publication number: 20130164214
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions comprising anti-CD74 and/or anti-HLA-DR antibodies for treatment of GVHD and other immune dysfunction diseases. In preferred embodiments, the anti-CD74 and/or anti-HLA-DR antibodies are effective to deplete antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells. Most preferably, administration of the therapeutic compositions depletes all subsets of APCs, including mDCs, pDCs, B cells and monocytes, without significant depletion of T cells. In alternative embodiments, administration of the therapeutic compositions suppresses proliferation of allo-reactive T cells, while preserving cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific, CD8+ memory T cells. The compositions and methods provide a novel conditioning regimen for preventing aGVHD and/or treating chronic GVHD, without altering preexisting anti-viral immunity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: IMMUNOMEDICS, INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Chang, David M. Goldenberg
  • Publication number: 20130156693
    Abstract: Anti-TAT226 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided. Methods of using anti-TAT226 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Wei-Ching Liang, Chie Sakanaka, Yan Wu
  • Publication number: 20130156694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel therapies that utilize HSP70 fusion proteins for the treatment of disorders or conditions regulated by HSP70.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: ALTERNATIVE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Sergei B. Onikienko, Alex Nivorozhkin, Alexander V. Zemlyanoi, Mikhail Viktorovich Shorokhov, Vladimir Ivanovich Pereguda, Valery Aleksandrovich Chereshnev
  • Publication number: 20130149238
    Abstract: Disclosed are human antibodies that specifically inhibit VEGF binding to only one (VEGFR2) of the two primary VEGF receptors. The antibodies effectively inhibit angiogenesis and induce tumor regression, and yet have improved safety due to their specificity. The present invention thus provides new human antibody-based compositions, methods and combined protocols for treating cancer and other angiogenic diseases. Advantageous immunoconjugate compositions and methods using the new VEGF-specific human antibodies are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicants: PEREGRINE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., AFFITECH RESEARCH AS
    Inventors: AFFITECH RESEARCH AS, PEREGRINE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130149237
    Abstract: The invention provides shuttle agents and methods of using the same to facilitate the translocation of therapeutic or diagnostic molecules into the CNS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicants: GENENTECH, INC., F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE AG
    Inventors: Mark Dennis, Per-Ola Freskgard, Stephen Tam, Ryan Watts, Joy Yu
  • Patent number: 8463365
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for detecting and treating malignant tissue, organs or cells in a mammal. The method includes parenterally injecting a mammalian subject, at a locus or by a route providing access to the tissue or organ, with a composition including an antibody/fragment that is tagged with a fluorophore and a therapeutic isotope molecule, which specifically binds to the targeted organ, tissue or cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: OncoFluor, Inc.
    Inventor: George A. Luiken
  • Publication number: 20130142730
    Abstract: The present invention provides organic arsenicals. Many of these compounds have potent in vitro cytotoxic activity against numerous human tumor cell lines, both of solid and hematological origin, as well as against malignant blood cells from patients with leukemia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: ZIOPHARM ONCOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130136689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of membrane proteins associated with B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, glioblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, lung cancer, lymphoid leukaemia (particularly acute T-cell leukaemia and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia), melanoma, neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, renal cell cancer and retinoblastoma which have utility as markers and for treatment of said cancers and which also form biological targets against which antibodies such as therapeutic antibodies (or other affinity reagents) or other pharmaceutical agents can be made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Christian Rohlff, Alasdair Stamps
  • Publication number: 20130129619
    Abstract: Cellular targets on cancer cells have been identified that can be used with targeted molecular imaging to detect the cancer cells in vivo. Non-invasive methods for detecting cancer cells, such as metastasized cancer cells, are therefore provided. Also provided are compositions and kits for use in the disclosed methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Morse, Robert J. Gillies, William Bradford Carter, Narges K. Tafreshi, Marilyn M. Bui, Steven A. Enkemann
  • Publication number: 20130121913
    Abstract: The present invention provides humanized, chimeric and human anti-CD19 antibodies, anti-CD19 antibody fusion proteins, and fragments thereof that bind to a human B cell marker. Such antibodies, fusion proteins and fragments thereof are useful for the treatment and diagnosis of various B-cell disorders, including B-cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. In more particular embodiments, the humanized anti-CD19 antibodies may comprise one or more framework region amino acid substitutions designed to improve protein stability, antibody binding and/or expression levels. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the substitutions comprise a Ser91Phe substitution in the hA19VH sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: IMMUNOMEDICS, INC.
    Inventor: Immunomedics, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130121914
    Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of autoimmune diseases or allergic diseases, which contains an anti-Embigin antibody, particularly an anti-Embigin antibody showing cytotoxicity or a cytotoxicity inducing activity, an agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of diseases involving Th17 cell, and a cytotoxic agent to Th17 cell. In addition, an agent for detection of Th17 cell, which contains an anti-Embigin antibody, a convenient detection method of Th17 cell, which uses the agent, a method of efficiently delivering a drug and the like in a Th17 cell selective manner, which uses an anti-Embigin antibody, and a drug delivery system to Th17 cell are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: DAINIPPON SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kino, Toshihiro Kai, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Masunori Kajikawa, Masahito Sugiura, Emi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8440167
    Abstract: The present invention provides multiple modalities for detecting LOX-1. More particularly, an imaging composition is provided that allows for the in vivo imaging of atherosclerotic plaque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: George A. Beller, David K. Glover, Alexander L. Klibanov, Craig H. Meyer, Dayuan Li, Amit Patel, Christopher M. Kramer
  • Publication number: 20130115166
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an isolated or recombinant IL-23-binding protein comprising an antigen binding domain of an antibody, wherein the antigen binding domain specifically binds to IL-23 but does not significantly bind to an IL-12p40 subunit and does not significantly bind to an IL-23p19 subunit when they are not components of IL-23. The present disclosure also provides uses of the IL-23-binding protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: CEPHALON AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Adam William Clarke, Anthony G. Doyle, Matthew Pollard, Stephen Tran
  • Patent number: 8435488
    Abstract: A modular platform is provided for rapid preparation of various water-soluble prosthetic groups capable to efficiently introduce 18F into proteins with 18F labelling reagents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Herman Gill, Jan Marik, Jeff Tinianow, Simon Williams
  • Publication number: 20130108546
    Abstract: The present application discloses humanized 9E4 antibodies. The antibodies bind to human alpha synuclein and can be used for immunotherapy of Lewy body disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Neotope Biosciences Limited
    Inventor: Neotope Biosciences Limited
  • Publication number: 20130108547
    Abstract: Compositions and methods useful for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Roland Dunbrack, Matthew K. Robinson, Andreas Lehmann, Gregory P. Adams
  • Publication number: 20130101504
    Abstract: The invention provides SPARC binding antibodies that target disease sites, in particular, tumors and uses thereof to diagnose and treat diseases, in particular, cancerous tumors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: ABRAXIS BIOSCIENCE, LLC
    Inventors: Vuong Trieu, Xiping Liu, Neil Desai
  • Patent number: 8425876
    Abstract: The invention relates to an MDR family P-glycoprotein located on human chromosome 7p15-21, polynucleotide sequences encoding this P-glycoprotein and fragments thereof. This gene is utilized in methods for assessing cancer cell susceptibility to therapies directed against multidrug resistance, and for the design of diagnostic and therapeutic methods relating to cancer multidrug resistance. The invention also relates to methods for determining whether a test compound may inhibit multidrug resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Markus H. Frank, Mohamed H. Sayegh
  • Publication number: 20130095033
    Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and compositions comprising an anti-IGF-1R antibody or fragment thereof for treatment of cancer or autoimmune disease. Preferably, the cancer is renal cell carcinoma, breast cancer or pancreatic cancer. The anti-IGF-1R antibody or fragment may be part of a complex, such as a DOCK-AND-LOCK™ (DNL™) complex. Preferably, the DNL™ complex also comprises a second antibody, a second antibody fragment, an affibody or a cytokine. More preferably, the cytokine is interferon-?2b. Most preferably, the second antibody, second fragment or affibody binds to IGF-1R, TROP2 or CEACAM6. The anti-IGF-1R antibody or complex may be administered alone or in combination with a therapeutic agent, such as an mTOR inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: IBC PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventor: IBC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130089497
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions of matter useful for the treatment of hematopoietic tumor in mammals and to methods of using those compositions of matter for the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventor: Genentech, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130089496
    Abstract: Isolated and recombinant antibodies, such as EGFR-binding antibodies. Antibodies can comprising the sequence of an immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma-1 region encoded by a human G1M3 allele. For example, antibodies of the embodiments can comprise an immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma-1 region wherein position 214 is arginine; position 356 is glutamic acid; position 358 is methionine and/or position 431 is alanine. Methods for treating diseases, such as cancer, in a human subject with such antibodies are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: MUSC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
    Inventor: Musc Foundation For Research Development
  • Publication number: 20130091591
    Abstract: Arterial and venous endothelial cells are molecularly distinct from the earliest stages of angiogenesis. This distinction is revealed by expression on arterial cells of a transmembrane ligand, called EphrinB2 whose receptor EphB4 is expressed on venous cells. Targeted disruption of the EphrinB2 gene prevents the remodeling of veins from a capillary plexus into properly branched structures. Moreover, it also disrupts the remodeling of arteries, suggesting that reciprocal interactions between pre-specified arterial and venous endothelial cells are necessary for angiogenesis. This distinction can be used to advantage in methods to alter angiogenesis, methods to assess the effect of drugs on artery cells and vein cells, and methods to identify and isolate artery cells and vein cells, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hai U. Wang, Zhoufeng Chen, David J. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20130084243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mammalian antibodies, designated 12B1 and antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind to insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-IR), preferably human IGF-IR. Also included are chimeric, bispecific, derivatized, single chain antibodies derived from the antibodies disclosed herein. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the mammalian antibodies as well as methods of use thereof are also disclosed. Also included are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions thereof for treatment and diagnosis of pathological hyperproliferative oncogenic disorders associated with expression of IGf-1R.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Liliane Goetsch, David Brooks, Michael Chastain, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Nathalie Corvaia
  • Publication number: 20130078183
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods of use comprising hexavalent DNL complexes. Preferably, the complexes comprise anti-CD20 and/or anti-CD22 antibodies or fragments thereof. More preferably, the anti-CD20 antibody is veltuzumab and the anti-CD22 antibody is epratuzumab. Administration of the subject hexavalent DNL complexes induces apoptosis and cell death of target cells in diseases such as B-cell lymphomas or leukemias, autoimmune disease or immune dysfunction disease. In most preferred embodiments, the DNL complexes increase levels of phosphorylated p38 and PTEN, decrease levels of phosphorylated Lyn, Akt, ERK, IKK?/? and I?B?, increase expression of RKIP and Bax and decrease expression of Mcl-1, Bcl-xL, Bcl-2, and phospho-BAD in target cells. The subject DNL complexes show EC50 values for inhibiting tumor cell growth in the low nanomolar or even sub-nanomolar concentration range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: IBC PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventor: IBC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130078182
    Abstract: Substituted humanized, chimeric or human anti-CD20 antibodies or antigen binding fragments and bispecific antibodies or fusion proteins comprising the substituted antibodies or antigen binding fragments are disclosed. They are useful for treatment of B-cell disorders, such as B-cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases, as well as GVHD, organ transplant rejection, and hemolytic anemia and cryoglobulinemia. Substitution of an aspartate residue at Kabat position 101 of CDR3 VH (CDRH3), produces improved therapeutic properties, including decreased dissociation rates and improved CDC activity, apoptosis, B-cell depletion and therapeutic efficacy at very low dosages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: IMMUNOMEDICS, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Goldenberg, Chien-Hsing Chang, Hans J. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20130071324
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a radioactive metal anti-cadherin antibody which is highly accumulated specifically in cancer tissue. Another object is to provide a cancer therapeutic agent having high anti-cancer effect and safety and a cancer diagnostic agent. The radioactive metal-labeled anti-cadherin antibody is obtained by binding a radioactive metallic element to an anti-cadherin antibody via a metal-chelating reagent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicants: PERSEUS PROTEOMICS INC., FUJIFILM RI PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hino, Akio Nagano, Masahiko Watanabe, Tadasi Matsuura, Hirokazu Satoh, Fumiko Nomura, Katsuyuki Mitomo
  • Publication number: 20130071323
    Abstract: The invention provides methods that relate to a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of hematological malignancies and inflammatory diseases. In particular, the method comprises administering a compound of formula A, wherein R is H, halo, or C1-C6 alkyl; R? is C1-C6 alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient; and administering at least one additional therapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Gilead Calistoga LLC
    Inventors: W. Michael Gallatin, Roger G. Ulrich, Neill A. Giese, Brian Lannutti, Langdon Miller, Thomas M. Jahn
  • Publication number: 20130071325
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing GT468, including tumor-related diseases such as breast cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, hepatocellular cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, head & neck cancer, kidney cancer, in particular renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, sarcoma, myeloma, neuroblastoma, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, and thyroid cancer, and the metastatic forms thereof. In one embodiment, the tumor disease is metastatic cancer in the lung.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Ugur Sahin, Ozlem Tureci, Michael Koslowski, Rita Mitnacht-Kraus
  • Patent number: 8398956
    Abstract: The present application discloses compositions and methods of synthesis and use involving click chemistry reactions for in vivo or in vitro formation of therapeutic and/or diagnostic complexes. Preferably, the diagnostic complex is of use for 18F imaging, while the therapeutic complex is of use for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs or toxins. More preferably, a chelating moiety or targetable construct may be conjugated to a targeting molecule, such as an antibody or antibody fragment, using a click chemistry reaction involving cyclooctyne, nitrone or azide reactive moieties. In most preferred embodiments, the click chemistry reaction occurs in vivo. In vivo click chemistry is not limited to 18F labeling but can be used for delivering a variety of therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Immunomedics, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. McBride, Christopher A. D'Souza, David M. Goldenberg
  • Publication number: 20130064763
    Abstract: Anti-ICAM-1 VHH single-domain antibodies (sdAbs) are generated by immunizing a llama with recombinant ICAM-1. These antibodies are linked to an imaging moiety for in vivo or ex vivo imaging of ICAM-1-related pathological conditions including atherosclerotic plaques. The antibodies may also be linked to a therapeutic agent to specifically target and treat ICAM-1-related pathological conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Abedelnasser Abulrob, Mehdi Arbabi-Ghahroudi, Danica Stanimirovic
  • Publication number: 20130064761
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions of matter useful for the diagnosis and treatment of tumor in mammals and to methods of using those compositions of matter for the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Belinda Cairns, Ruihuan Chen, Gretchen Frantz, Kenneth J. Hillan, Hartmut Koeppen, Heidi S. Phillips, Paul Polakis, Susan D. Spencer, Victoria Smith, P. Mickey Williams, Thomas D. Wu, Zemin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130064762
    Abstract: This invention generally relates to a method of identifying pre-neoplastic or neoplastic tissue of a mammal by utilizing autoantibodies that detect the pre-neoplastic or neoplastic tissue. Also described herein are methods of killing pre-neoplastic or neoplastic tissue by either binding toxins to autoantibodies that detect the pre-neoplastic or neoplastic tissue or introducing toxin-conjugated molecules that can in turn recognize the autoantibodies already bound to the pre-neoplastic or neoplastic tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: The Rockefeller University
    Inventor: Sanford M. Simon
  • Publication number: 20130058864
    Abstract: Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind OV064 are disclosed. The antibodies bind an extracellular domain of OV064. Some of the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments bind an epitope on OV064 sufficient to induce internalization. In some embodiments, the antibodies are humanized, chimeric or human. Nucleic acids and vectors encoding the antibodies or portions thereof, recombinant cells that contain the nucleic acids, and compositions comprising the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments are also disclosed. The invention also provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods utilizing the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130058863
    Abstract: A panel of lymphoma related biomarkers are provided. The panel allows the identification of a subject at risk for a lymphoma. Further provided are methods of optimizing therapeutic efficacy associated with treatment of a lymphoma related disorder. Methods of identifying biomarkers affiliated with a condition of interest are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventor: Jake Yue Chen
  • Publication number: 20130052128
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to binding agents (e.g. antibodies) that bind to and/or modulate the activity of a urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR/CD87), compositions comprising the antibodies, and methods involving use of the antibodies or compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Charles S. Craik, Krishna Sai Duriseti, David H. Goetz
  • Publication number: 20130052130
    Abstract: Disclosed are general and “substantially pure” branched discrete polyethylene glycol constructs useful in attaching to a variety of biologically active groups, for example, preferential locators, as well as biologics like enzymes, for use in diagnostics, e.g. imaging, therapeutics, theranostics, and moieties specific for other applications. In its simplest intermediate state, a branched discrete polyethylene glycol construct is terminated at one end by a chemically reactive moiety, “A”, a group that is reactive with a biologic material that creates “A”, which is a biologically reactive group, connected through to a branched core (BC) which has attached at least two dPEG-containing chains, indicated by the solid line, , having terminal groups, which can be charged, non-reactive or reactable moieties and containing between about 2 and 64 dPEG residues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, QUANTA BIODESIGN, LTD.
    Inventors: Paul D. Davis, D. Scott Wilbur