Cancer Cell Patents (Class 424/155.1)
  • Patent number: 8535676
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising naked humanized, chimeric, and human anti-CEA antibodies and a therapeutic agent, which is useful for treatment of CEA expressing cancers and other diseases, and methods of use in treatment using this composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Immunomedics, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Goldenberg, Hans J. Hansen
  • Patent number: 8535675
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Dennis, Bonnee Rubinfeld, Paul Polakis
  • Publication number: 20130236470
    Abstract: Provided is a novel therapeutic agent specific for a malignant tumor expressing MHC class II. The present invention provides an antibody recognizing a protein constituting MHC class II expressed on a malignant tumor, the antibody comprising at least one selected from heavy chain CDR1 (amino acid sequence represented by positions 49 to 54 of SEQ ID NO: 54), heavy chain CDR2 (amino acid sequence represented by positions 69 to 84 of SEQ ID NO: 54), heavy chain CDR3 (amino acid sequence represented by positions 117 to 128 of SEQ ID NO: 54), light chain CDR1 (amino acid sequence represented by positions 46 to 55 of SEQ ID NO: 56), light chain CDR2 (amino acid sequence represented by positions 71 to 77 of SEQ ID NO: 56), and light chain CDR3 (amino acid sequence represented by positions 100 to 108 of SEQ ID NO: 56).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicants: JUNTENDO EDUCATINAL FOUNDATION, RIKEN
    Inventors: Shuji Matsuoka, Yasuyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 8529901
    Abstract: This invention relates to a composition of a non-labeled monoclonal antibody binding to a tumor antigen and a second monoclonal antibody labeled with a NIR fluorescence label, binding to the same tumor antigen, wherein the first and second antibody exhibit no cross reactivity. The composition can be used for the treatment of patients suffering of solid tumors which are associated with an overexpression of such a tumor antigen. The invention further relates to a the co-administration of said first and second antibody as wells as to a method of acquiring a NIR fluorescence images of such tumors or the patients suffering from such tumors during the treatment of said patient with such composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Hasmann, Helmut Lenz, Werner Scheuer
  • Patent number: 8529902
    Abstract: Isolated human monoclonal antibodies which bind to and inhibit human CD20, and related antibody-based compositions and molecules, are disclosed. The human antibodies can be produced by a transfectoma or in a non-human transgenic animal, e.g., a transgenic mouse, capable of producing multiple isotypes of human monoclonal antibodies by undergoing V-D-J recombination and isotype switching. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the human antibodies, non-human transgenic animals and hybridomas which produce the human antibodies, and therapeutic and diagnostic methods for using the human antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Genmab A/S
    Inventors: Jessica Teeling, Sigrid Ruuls, Martin Glennie, Jan G. J. van de Winkel, Paul Parren, Jørgen Petersen, Ole Baadsgaard, Haichun Huang
  • Patent number: 8529891
    Abstract: The present invention describes inhibitors of extracellular Hsp90. The inhibition of extracellular Hsp90 leads to a reduction of the invasiveness of the tumor cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of molecules inhibiting extracellular Hsp90 function for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of invasion and/or metastatic potential of cancer cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Trustees of Tufts College
    Inventors: Daniel G Jay, Brenda K Eustace, Takashi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8524867
    Abstract: Antibodies that target CD19, wherein the antibodies comprise at least one modification relative to a parent antibody, wherein the modification alters affinity to an FcyR or alters effector function as compared to the parent antibody, and methods of using the antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Xencor, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Bernett, Seung Yup Chu, John R. Desjarlais, Sher Bahadur Karki, Gregory Alan Lazar, Erik WeiKing Pong, John O. Richards, Eugene Alexander Zhukovsky
  • Patent number: 8524281
    Abstract: The present invention provides an oral pharmaceutical formulation comprising coated spheroids of a kinase inhibitor such as neratinib, which formulation is designed to reduce or eliminate side effects associated with existing oral formulations of kinase inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Sripriya Venkata Ramana Rao, Syed Muzafar Shah, Christopher Richard Diorio, Maja Vencl-Joncic, Eugene James Murphy
  • Patent number: 8518405
    Abstract: Provided are isolated antibodies, and fragments and derivatives thereof, which bind to tumor antigens. Also provided are compositions and delivery agents that include the disclosed antibodies and fragments and derivatives thereof; cells that produce the same; methods for producing the same; methods of using the same for detecting, targeting, and/or treating tumors and/or metastatic cells derived therefrom and/or tumor stem cells; and methods for predicting the recurrence of cancer in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Inventor: Pinku Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 8518889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of inhibitors of leukotriene B4 receptor BLT2 for treating human cancers. More particularly, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating human cancers comprising BLT2 inhibitors and a method for treating human cancers using BLT2 inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Korea University Research & Business Foundation
    Inventors: Jae-Hong Kim, Jung-A Choi, Eun-Young Kim, Geun-Young Kim, Chul-Min Kim, Ji-Min Seo, Hyun-Ju Kim, Jin-Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20130216536
    Abstract: The present invention describes inhibitors of extracellular Hsp90. The inhibition of extracellular Hsp90 leads to a reduction of the invasiveness of the tumor cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of molecules inhibiting extracellular Hsp90 function for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of invasion and/or metastatic potential of cancer cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE
    Inventors: Daniel G Jay, Brenda K Eustace, Takashi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8512702
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel antibodies and their use for detecting, imaging, staging, treating and monitoring of prostate cancer, and/or metastasis thereof. The present invention also relates to novel pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of prostate cancer. Furthermore the present invention relates to assay systems and kits for detecting, imaging, staging, treating and monitoring of prostate cancer, and/or metastasis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Proscan Rx Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Claudio Cuello, Uri Saragovi, Pierre Du Ruisseau, Phil Gold, Nicole Bernard, Serge Moffett
  • Publication number: 20130209483
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to cannabinoid derivative compounds, pharmaceutical compositions made thereof, and methods for treating various diseases and disorders including cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SUTTER WEST BAY HOSPITALS
    Inventor: SUTTER WEST BAY HOSPITALS
  • Patent number: 8507442
    Abstract: Novel anti-cancer agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies, that bind to human frizzled receptors are provided. Novel epitopes within the human frizzled receptors which are suitable as targets for anti-cancer agents are also identified. Methods of using the agents or antibodies, such as methods of using the agents or antibodies to inhibit Wnt signaling and/or inhibit tumor growth are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin L. Gurney, Aaron Ken Sato, Fumiko Takada Axelrod, Timothy Charles Hoey, Sanjeev H. Satyal, Satyajit Sujit Kumar Mitra
  • Patent number: 8501242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds as novel thymidylate synthase inhibitors, novel strategies to treat or prevent neoplasia in a subject, methods and compositions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation
    Inventors: David A. Ostrov, Carmen J. Allegra
  • Publication number: 20130195851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to articles of manufacture and methods for co-administration of antibodies and/or antibody-like molecules, and further concerns methods for intravenous administration of more than one antibody and/or antibody-like molecule to a subject in need from a stable mixture contained in the same article of manufacture, such as an intravenous infusion bag (IV bag).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventor: Genentech, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8497355
    Abstract: A method of modulating the plasma half-life of anti-glypican 3 antibody, a pharmaceutical composition comprising as an active ingredient the anti-glypican 3 antibody that has a plasma half-life that has been modulated, a method of preparing the anti-glypican 3 antibody and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the anti-glypican 3 antibody as an active ingredient are provided. Disclosed is a method of modulating the plasma half-life of anti-glypican 3 antibody by modifying an amino acid residue that is exposed on the surface of the anti-glypican 3 antibody; and anti-glypican 3 antibody that has a plasma half-life that has been modulated by amino acid residue modification, a pharmaceutical composition comprising as an active ingredient the anti-glypican 3 antibody, and a method of preparing the anti-glypican 3 antibody and producing a pharmaceutical composition comprising the anti-glypican 3 antibody as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Igawa, Taichi Kuramochi, Hirotake Shiraiwa, Hiroyuki Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko Tachibana, Takahiro Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 8497354
    Abstract: Isolated monoclonal antibodies are disclosed herein that specifically bind endoplasmin. In some embodiments these antibodies are fully human. Recombinant nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including these nucleic acids, and host cells transformed with these expression vectors are also disclosed herein. In several embodiments the disclosed antibodies are of use for detecting and/or treating tumors that express endoplasmin, such as melanoma, breast cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, renal cancer, lung cancer, glioma, bladder cancer, ovarian cancer or pancreatic cancer. In one example, the tumor is a melanoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Soldano Ferrone, Xinhui Wang, Thomas P. Conrads, Elvira Favoino, Brian L. Hood
  • Publication number: 20130189225
    Abstract: Methods for increasing the efficiency of target tissue penetration of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector in a patient are provided. In some aspects, the methods involve inhibiting the interaction of the serum protein galectin 3 binding protein (G3BP) with AAV vector. Further provided are methods for reducing tissue distribution of a virus or for neutralizing a virus harbored by an organ destined for transplant, or newly transplanted, by administering a composition comprising G3BP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: ASSOCIATION INSTITUT DE MYOLOGIE, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE (PARIS 6), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, GENETHON
    Inventors: Thomas Voit, Luis Garcia, Jérôme Denard, Fedor Svinartchouk
  • Patent number: 8491906
    Abstract: The present invention relates to selectively targeting tumoral vasculature in vivo using a human recombinant scFv, L19, to the angiogenesis marker ED-B domain of fibronectin. In preferred embodiments, a complete human IgG1 is employed having the variable regions of L19. In other preferred embodiments is employed a mini-immunoglobulin generated by fusing the scFv L19 to the constant CH4 domain of a secretory IgE isoform that naturally contains a cysteine in its COOH terminal and which forms a covalently linked dimer. Different in vivo behavior of the antibody formats is exploitable for different diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes, depending on clinical needs and disease. The antibody molecules may be labelled as described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: Philogen S.p.A., Bayer Schering Pharma AG
    Inventors: Laura Borsi, Barbara Carnemolla, Enrica Balza, Patrizia Castellani, Luciano Zardi, Matthias Friebe, Christoph-Stephan Hilger
  • Publication number: 20130183295
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for introducing substances into cells comprising contacting a composition comprising orally administered beta-glucan with said cells. This invention also provides a method for introducing substances into a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of the above compositions. The substance which could be delivered orally includes but is not limited to peptides, proteins, RNAs, DNAs, chemotherapeutic agents, biologically active agents, plasmids, and other small molecules and compounds. Finally, this invention provides a composition comprising orally administered beta-glucan capable of enhancing efficacy of IgM and different uses of the said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Biotec Pharmacon ASA, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Biotec Pharmacon ASA
  • Patent number: 8486394
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel antibodies and functional fragments thereof specific for CD38, and methods of using the same for the treatment of diseases associated with CD38 expression, including hematological malignancies such as multiple myeloma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Morphosys AG
    Inventors: Michael Tesar, Ute Jäger
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8486395
    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 hA19 VH sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Immunomedics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans J. Hansen, Zhengxing Qu, David M. Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 8486413
    Abstract: The present invention concerns antibodies that react immunologically with an epitope comprising VDKSRWQQG (SEQ ID NO: 1), including those that bind to cancer cells, and methods relating thereto. In particular, the antibodies that react immunologically with a particular epitope found in anti-tumor antigen antibodies are not only indicative of favorable therapy using the anti-tumor antigen antibodies, but are therapeutic in and of themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Paula R. Pohlmann, Raymond L. Mernaugh, Carlos L. Arteaga
  • Patent number: 8481683
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to CD22 with high affinity, particularly human monoclonal antibodies. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies of this disclosure, expression vectors, host cells and methods for expressing the antibodies of this disclosure are also provided. Antibody-partner molecule conjugates, bispecific molecules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of this disclosure are also provided. This disclosure also provides methods for detecting CD22, as well as methods for treating various cancers and inflammatory and autoimmune disorders using an anti-CD22 antibody of this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Medarex, Inc.
    Inventors: David John King, Alison Witte, Heidi N. LeBlanc, Richard Theolis, Asna Masood, Mark Yamanaka, Kyra D. Zens, Sarah R. Reed, Tim Sproul, Chetana Rao-Naik, David Passmore, Dawn M. Tanamachi, Kristopher Toy
  • Patent number: 8481497
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To provide a technique which enables an effective antibody therapy for cancer which targets for FGFR1 without the need of using any effective antibody having high specificity and a potent cell-killing activity. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Disclosed are: a therapeutic agent for cancer, which comprises an enhancer of the expression of a fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 and an anti-fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 antibody; and a method for the treatment of cancer using the therapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: Sapporo Medical University, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Kohzoh Imai, Shigeru Sasaki, Tsutomu Seito
  • Patent number: 8481039
    Abstract: Medicaments for treating diseases related to HB-EGF escalation are in demand. The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody or an antibody fragment thereof which binds to a cell membrane-bound HB-EGF, a membrane type HB-EGF and a secretory HB-EGF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Eisuke Mekada, Ryo Iwamoto, Shingo Miyamoto, Kenya Shitara, Akiko Furuya, Kazuyasu Nakamura, Kumiko Takahashi, Hiroshi Ando, Kazuhiro Masuda, Yuka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8481038
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating a patient having a cancer comprising administering to the patient a soluble Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 (FGFR1) fusion protein such as an extracellular domain of an FGFR1 polypeptide linked to an Fc polypeptide or another fusion partner. The fusion protein may be administered at a dose of at least about 2 mg/kg body weight. In some embodiments, the patient has a fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) plasma concentration of at least 6 pg/ml. In some embodiments, the cancer is characterized by a Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 (FGFR2) having a ligand-dependent activating mutation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold Keer
  • Patent number: 8470326
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of binding equivalents of monoclonal antibody 31.1, including chimerized and/or humanized versions thereof, antibody fragments as well as competitively binding and co-specific antibodies and antibody fragments, in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Precision Biologics
    Inventors: Myron Arlen, Kwong Tsang
  • Patent number: 8470330
    Abstract: The invention includes stable multimeric, particularly dimeric, forms of PSMA protein, compositions and kits containing dimeric PSMA protein as well as methods of producing, purifying and using these compositions. Such methods include methods for eliciting or enhancing an immune response to cells expressing PSMA, including methods of producing antibodies to dimeric PSMA, as well as methods of treating cancer, such as prostate cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: PSMA Development Company, LLC, Amgen Fremont Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Maddon, Gerald P. Donovan, William C. Olson, Norbert Schuelke, Jason Gardner, Dangshe Ma, Jaspal S. Kang, Larry Green
  • Publication number: 20130156784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies, including fully human monoclonal antibodies, with specificity to GPNMB, and uses of such antibodies. The present invention further provides compositions that increase expression of GPNMB on the surface of tumor cells, and methods of using such compositions to increase the anti-cancer activity or other therapeutic efficacy of the antibodies and immunoconjugates provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Michael Jeffers, William LaRochelle
  • Patent number: 8465741
    Abstract: The invention provides antibodies, including chimeric human antibodies, recombinant antibodies, synthetic antibodies, and the nucleic acids encoding them, and methods for making and using these immunoglobulins. The invention provides recombinant and synthetic polypeptide and nucleic acid embodiments of these polypeptides and/or antibodies. The invention also provides polypeptides comprising, or consisting of, consensus human framework regions, or “Independently Consensused Frameworks (ICFs)”, nucleic acids encoding them, and libraries and kits comprising these ICFs and/or antibodies of the invention, individually and in combinatorial libraries and combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: MMRGlobal, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerhard Frey, Bruce E. Kimmel, Abraham Anderson
  • Patent number: 8460658
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the modulation of hyaluronan (HA) synthesis and degradation. The present invention further contemplates modulation of cellular proliferation, useful in the prophylaxis and/or treatment of inflammatory disorders including hyperproliferative conditions, such as but not limited to, cancer and psoriasis. The present invention is directed to compounds, agents, pharmaceutically active agents, medicaments, therapeutics, actives, drugs and the like which specifically target a portion of HAS which is accessible to the extracellular environment in malignant or inflammatory or proliferative cells but which portion is not accessible to the external environment in “normal” cells. A “normal” cell in this instance is a non-malignant, inflammatory or proliferative cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Alchemia Oncology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Tracey J. Brown, Gary R. Brownlee
  • Patent number: 8461304
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies which bind to an epitope in the extracellular domain of human CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) and which are capable of inhibiting the binding of macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC) and/or thymus and activation regulated chemokine (TARC) to CCR4. Also provided are inter alia immunoconjugates and compositions comprising such antibodies and methods and uses involving such antibodies, particularly in the medical and diagnostic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Affitech Research AS
    Inventors: Lavinia Diana Cicortas Gunnarsson, Didrik Paus
  • Patent number: 8454960
    Abstract: Antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains (MRDs) that can be used to target the antibodies to specific sites are described. The use of antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains to treat disease, and methods of making antibodies containing one or more modular recognition domains are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventor: Carlos F. Barbas, III
  • Patent number: 8454958
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for reducing or inhibiting angiogenesis in a tissue, by contacting ?5?1 integrin in the tissue with an agent that interferes with specific binding of the ?5?1 integrin to a ligand expressed in the tissue. The invention further provides methods of reducing or inhibiting angiogenesis in a tissue in an individual, by administering to the individual an agent that interferes with the specific binding of ?5?1 integrin to a ligand expressed in the tissue; and methods of reducing the severity of a pathological condition associated with angiogenesis in an individual, by administering to the individual an agent that interferes with specific binding of ?5?1 integrin to a ligand in a tissue associated with the pathological condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Judith A. Varner
  • Patent number: 8444972
    Abstract: Antibodies that bind to a 40 kDa protein which is expressed on tumors, but is not expressed on normal adult hemopoietic cells are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for production and the use of such antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Rock, Dancella Fernandes
  • Patent number: 8444988
    Abstract: A method of treating cancer is described including administration of a 4-quinazolineamine and at least one other anti-neoplastic agent as well as a pharmaceutical combination including the 4-quinazolineamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLC
    Inventors: Karen Elizabeth Lackey, Robert J. Mullin, Neil Spector, Edgar Raymond Wood, III, Wenle Xia
  • Patent number: 8440198
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the field of wound healing or tissue regeneration due to disease (i.e., for example, cardiovascular diseases, osetoarthritic diseases, or diabetes). In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods comprising molecules with linked ?-gal epitopes for induction of an inflammatory response localized within or surrounding damaged tissue. In some embodiments, the present invention provides treatments for tissue repair in normal subjects and in subjects having impaired healing capabilities, such as diabetic and aged subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventor: Uri Galili
  • Patent number: 8440197
    Abstract: The invention provides the identification and characterization of disease and cancer-associated epitope, KID3. The invention also provides a family of monoclonal antibodies that bind to KID3, methods of diagnosing and treating various human cancers and diseases that express KID3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: MacroGenics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony W. Liang, Deryk T. Loo, Xiaolin Xu
  • Patent number: 8435749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-CDH3 antibodies, which can be labeled with a radioisotope. Moreover, the present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions that comprise an anti-CDH3 antibody as an active ingredient. Since CDH3 is strongly expressed in pancreatic, lung, colon, prostate, breast, gastric or liver cancer cells, the present invention is useful in pancreatic, lung, colon, prostate, breast, gastric or liver cancer therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Oncotherapy Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Togashi, Masakazu Katsu, Megumi Takayanagi, Hiroki Yoshioka, Pohsing Ng, Yasuhiro Shiba, Yusuke Nakamura, Keigo Endo
  • Patent number: 8425904
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to mesothelin with high affinity, particularly human monoclonal antibodies. Preferably, the antibodies bind human mesothelin. In certain embodiments, the antibodies are capable of internalizing into mesothelin-expressing cells or are capable of mediating antigen dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The invention further provides anti-mesothelin antibodies that can inhibit the binding of mesothelin to the ovarian cancer antigen CA125. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies of this disclosure, expression vectors, host cells and methods for expressing the antibodies of this disclosure are also provided. Antibody-partner molecule conjugates, bispecific molecules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of this disclosure are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Terrett, Sarah L. Pogue, Kristopher Toy, Lan Yang, Chetana Rao-Naik, Bingliang Chen
  • Patent number: 8425908
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the treatment of disorders characterized by the overexpression of ErbB2. More specifically, the invention concerns the treatment of human patients susceptible to or diagnosed with cancer overexpressing ErbB2 with a combination of an anti-ErbB2 antibody and a chemotherapeutic agent other than an anthracycline, e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin. The invention further provides a method of treating cancer in a human patient comprising administering effective amounts of an anti-ErbB2 antibody and a cardioprotectant to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventor: Susan D. Hellmann
  • Patent number: 8404234
    Abstract: The present invention concerns fixed dosing of HER antibodies, such as Pertuzumab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Allison, Rene Bruno, Jian-Feng Lu, Chee M. Ng
  • Patent number: 8398974
    Abstract: Provided are monoclonal antibodies, antigen-binding fragments thereof, and combinations of the foregoing, that bind to, and inhibit the activity of, c-Met, and that are effective in treating cancers and other diseases, disorders, or conditions where pathogenesis is mediated by c-Met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Julian Davies, Ling Liu, Jirong Lu, Peter Edward Vaillancourt, Mark Andrew Wortinger, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 8394376
    Abstract: To provide a therapeutic drug for Alzheimer's disease and/or a cancer. The therapeutic drug for Alzheimer's disease and/or a cancer contains an anti-nicastrin antibody, a derivative of the antibody, or a fragment of the antibody or the derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Perseus Proteomics Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwatsubo, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Takao Hamakubo, Taisuke Tomita, Ikuo Hayashi, Yasuomi Urano, Hiroko Iwanari, Masao Ohkuchi
  • Patent number: 8394381
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting angiogenesis in an individual in need thereof comprising administering an antibody that selectively binds to the extracellular region of human magic roundabout (MR) to the individual. An antibody that has the amino acid sequences i) to iii), the amino acid sequences iv) to vi), or the amino acid sequences i) to vi). i) S A S S S V S Y M Y ii) L T S N L A S iii) Q Q W S S N P L T iv) D Y N L N v) V I N P N Y G T T S Y N Q K F K G vi) G R D Y F G Y. A method of inhibiting angiogenesis in an individual in need thereof comprising administering the extracellular domain (residues 1-467) of MR, or a fragment thereof that inhibits angiogenesis, to the individual. A method of inhibiting endothelial cell migration and/or proliferation comprising administering the extracellular domain of MR, or a fragment thereof that inhibits endothelial cell migration and/or proliferation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: Roy Bicknell, Steven Suchting, Lorna Mary Dyet Stewart
  • Patent number: 8394377
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for treating a subject by manipulating HER-2 on a cell as well as related products. The methods include methods of treating cancer using fatty acid oxidation inhibitors and HER-2 binding molecules such as antibodies and fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventors: Martha Karen Newell, Joshua Hunter Cabrera
  • Patent number: 8388955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Fc variants having increased affinity for Fc?RIIb, methods for their generation, Fc polypeptides comprising optimized Fc variants, and methods for using optimized Fc variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Xencor, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Lazar, Wei Dang, John R. Desjarlais, Sher Bahadur Karki, Omid Vafa, Robert Hayes, Jost Vielmetter