Polycyclo Ring System Patents (Class 514/185)
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Patent number: 10875871Abstract: The present application relates to a phthalocyanine, to a method for preparing the phthalocyanine, and to an object coated or impregnated with the phthalocyanine. The present application also relates to a method for providing reactive oxygen species, and to a method for disinfecting materials, including providing reactive oxygen species to the material to disinfect the material by oxidative action.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Tampereen korkeakoulusäätiö srInventors: Alexander Efimov, George Lijo, Ville Santala
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Patent number: 10786571Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical topical gel solution that contains 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) and an aqueous low viscous gel matrix. This invention also relates to a pharmaceutical preparation containing this composition. The formulation of this type can be used in photodynamic therapy as well as in the photodynamic detection of abnormally proliferating cells.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Zimmer Biotech GmbHInventors: Andre Solioz, Frank Stowasser, Armin Zimmer
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Patent number: 10759796Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: X4 PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventors: Elyse Marie Josee Bourque, Renato Skerlj
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Patent number: 10730899Abstract: The present disclosure is in relation to the field of nanotechnology and cancer therapeutics. In particular, the present disclosure relates to platinum based compounds comprising platinum moiety, linker moiety and lipid moiety and corresponding nanoparticles thereof. The disclosure further relates to synthesis of said platinum based compounds, nanoparticles and compositions comprising said platinum based compounds/nanoparticles. The disclosure also relates to methods of managing cancer by employing aforesaid carbene compounds, platinum based compounds, nanoparticles and compositions thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: AKAMARA THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Shiladitya Sengupta, Monideepa Roy, Arindam Sarkar, SK Samad Hossain, Aniruddha Sengupta, Pradip Dutta, Aasif Ansari
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Patent number: 10695446Abstract: A compound and method for detecting hypoxic cells and tissue are provided. The compound includes a probe selected from the group consisting of a hypoxia sensitive 2-nitroimidazole containing fluorescence imaging probe, a hypoxia sensitive reversible ON-OFF fluorescence imaging probe, a hypoxia sensitive azo-based fluorescence imaging probe, and combinations thereof. The method includes contacting the cells or tissue with the probe of any one of claims 1-13 and detecting fluorescent intensity of the cell or tissue, wherein increased fluorescent intensity indicates that the cells or tissue is hypoxic. Also provided are a method of synthesizing the compound and a method for synthesizing a therapeutic agent including the compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Vanderbilt UniversityInventors: Imam Uddin, Ashwath Jayagopal, Jashim Uddin, John S. Penn, Lawrence J. Marnett
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Patent number: 10682327Abstract: A composition and method for supplementing food, nutrition, and diet systems with omega-6 to omega-3 balanced oils comprising a synergistic blend of at least two oils. The composition further comprises a synergistic blend of long chain omega-3 oil as a means to further increase the nutritional value. The composition provides an effective increase in therapeutic and pharmacological properties in nutrition and diet systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Omega Foods, LLCInventors: Michael H. Gurin, Andrew G. Konopacki
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Patent number: 10668080Abstract: Use of (pyrophosphato)platinum(II) or (pyrophosphato)platinum(IV) complexes (“phosphaplatin compounds”), especially (R,R)-1,2-cyclohexanediamine-(dihydrogen pyrophosphato)platinum(II) (or “PT-112”), as therapeutic agents for treatment of bone and blood cancers, or cancers that metastasize to bones, and methods thereof, are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Phosplatin Therapeutics LLCInventors: Matthew Price, Tyler Ames
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Patent number: 10662209Abstract: Large scale (bulk) compositions comprising high-purity stannsoporfin are disclosed, as well as methods of synthesizing such compositions.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Mallinckrodt Hospital Products IP LimitedInventors: George S. Drummond, Robert Caroselli, Keith A. Cooke, Daniel Levin, David G. Roe, Christopher P. Boucher
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Patent number: 10597415Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to compounds which have enhanced oral bioavailability. A transition metal complex includes a transition metal coordinated by a macrocycle comprising the pentaaza 15-membered macrocyclic ring corresponding to Formula A and two axial ligands having the formula —OC(O)X1. each of the two axial ligands has the formula —OC(?O)X1 wherein each X1 is independently substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or —C(—X2)(—X3)(—X4); each X2 is independently substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; each X3 is independently hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, amino, —X5C(?O)R13 where X5 is NH or O, and R13 is C1-C18 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or C1-C18 aralkyl, or —OR14, where R14 is C1-C18 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or C1-C18 aralkyl, or together with X4 is (?O); and each X4 is independently hydrogen or together with X3 is (?O).Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: GALERA LABS, LLCInventors: Jeffery L. Keene, Otto F. Schall, Dennis P. Riley
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Patent number: 10561698Abstract: A hand sanitizing composition and a method of manufacture, wherein the composition includes a solvent from about 78% to about 96% by weight sufficient to operate as a carrier and solvent. The composition includes tetrasodium EDTA and/or Sodium Citrate from about 0.01% to about 1% by weight to operate as a buffer, stabilizer and chelating agent. The composition includes a humectant selected from the group of humectants consisting of: Cetyl Alcohol, Ceteryl Alcohol, and Steryl Alchohol from about 1.5% to about 5.5% by weight to emulsify, thicken and lubricate. The composition includes an emollient from about 0.1% to about 3.2% by weight and an antioxidant vitamin from about 0.01% to about 1% by weight. The composition includes a soothing agent in a therapeutically significant amount and a conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Inventor: Roger Wilson
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Patent number: 10537750Abstract: A radiation detection system and method for a neutron capture therapy system, which may increase the accuracy of neutron beam irradiation dose of the neutron capture therapy system and find out a fault position in time. The neutron capture therapy system includes a charged particle beam, a charged particle beam inlet allowing the charged particle beam to pass through, a neutron beam generating unit which may generate a neutron beam after a nuclear reaction occurs between the neutron beam generating unit and the charged particle beam, a beam shaping assembly for adjusting the flux and the quality of the neutron beam generated by the neutron beam generating unit, and a beam outlet adjacent to the beam shaping assembly, the radiation detection system includes a radiation detection device for real-time detection of ? rays instantly emitted under neutron beam irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: NEUBORON MEDTECH LTD.Inventors: Yuan-Hao Liu, Ming-Chen Hsiao
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Patent number: 10500609Abstract: A process of providing an antibacterial coating to the surface of an article including the steps of applying a layer of an antibacterial precursor layer to the surface of an article to which an antibacterial coating is to be applied, wherein said antibacterial precursor layer is a precursor from which the coating is to be formed; and directing a neutral molecular hydrogen flux from a neutral molecular hydrogen flux emission source towards the surface of the article. Upon impact of neutral hydrogen molecules on molecules at or on the surface of an article, the bonds of the antibacterial precursor layer are selectively ruptured, and wherein the selectively ruptured bonds cross-link with themselves or with other chemical moieties at said surface or a combination thereof, resulting an antibacterial coating being formed on the surface of the article.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: MASTER DYNAMIC LIMITEDInventors: Yingnan Wang, Zhuonan Miao, Ching Tom Kong, Woon Ming Lau, Sui Kong Hark, Ka Wai Wong
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Patent number: 10493081Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a range of diseases or conditions. The methods involve administration of a superoxide dismutase mimetic.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Galera Labs, LLCInventors: Jeffery L. Keene, Dennis P. Riley, Robert A. Beardsley
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Patent number: 10450322Abstract: The present invention relates to carboxamide halogenated porphyrin derivatives, in particular bacteriochlorin or chlorin, of formula (I) use of the same or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in photodynamic therapy, where the derivatives are able to detect and exhibit the presence of hyperproliferative disorders and, in the presence of an adequate lighting, to treat the same. The present invention also describes a pharmaceutical composition having the carboxamide halogenated porphyrin derivatives, in particular bacteria-chlorin or chlorin, of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for the treatment of cancer and/or microbial and/or viral infections, in humans or animals.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignees: LUZITIN, S.A., UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRAInventors: Goncalo Pereira Nascimento Costa, Nuno Paulo Ferreira Goncalves, Carlos Jorge Pereira Monteiro, Artur Carlos Reis De Abreu, Helder Tao Ferraz Cardoso Soares, Luis Gabriel Borges Rocha, Fabio Antonio Schaberle, Maria Miguens Pereira, Luis Guilherme Da Silva Arnaut Moreira
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Patent number: 10406167Abstract: The present disclosure relates platinum(IV) and texaphyrin linked conjugates and compositions comprising a texaphyrin and a platinum(IV) agent. The present disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions of the conjugates and compositions. Also, provided herein are methods of using the instant compounds in the treatment of cancer such as a platinum resistant cancer.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Jonathan L. Sessler, Jonathan Arambula, Zahid H. Siddik, Gregory Thiabaud
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Patent number: 10358455Abstract: Disclosed is an arene ruthenium complex with R1, R2, R3, and piperidine as main ligands, preparation method and utilization thereof. R1, R2, R3 are selected from —H, —Cl, —F, —Br, —I, —CF3, —NO2, —OCH3, —OH, —COOH, —CH3, —N(CH3)2, —C2H2, —SO2CH3, alkane with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, substituted alkyl with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, phenyl, substituted phenyl, pyridyl, substituted pyridyl, furyl, substituted furyl, pyrrolyl, substituted pyrrolyl, thiazyl or substituted thiazyl group respectively. The substituted groups in the substituted phenyl, substituted pyridyl, substituted furyl, substituted thiazyl and substituted pyrrolyl are selected from hydroxyl, nitro, halogen, amido, carboxyl, cyano, thiol or naphthene group with 3 to 8 carbon atoms, SO3H, alkane with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, alkenyl with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, alkyne with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, C1-C6 hydroxyalkane, C1-C6 aminoalkane, CO2R?, CONR?R?, COR?, SO2R?R?, C1-C6 alkoxyl, C1-C6 alkyl thiol, —N?NR?, NR?R? or C1-C6 trifloroalkyl.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: GUANGDONG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITYInventor: Wenjie Mei
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Patent number: 10335608Abstract: A method for destroying cells and/or microorganisms in an organism includes the following steps: (a) administering to the organism a composition including a photodynamic compound containing at least one transition metal; and (b) irradiating the photodynamic compound in the organism with electromagnetic radiation, wherein the electromagnetic radiation includes ionizing radiation and is effective to activate the photodynamic compound to destroy at least one of the cells and the microorganisms in the organism. The ionizing radiation is preferably X-rays and/or gamma rays. The non-ionizing radiation is preferably light in the range from 600-950 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignees: THERALASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKInventors: Arkady Mandel, Carl Fisher, Lothar Lilge
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Patent number: 10328085Abstract: The use of cobalt porphyrins for the manufacture of an agent for mobilizing bone marrow cells to peripheral blood, preferably used to treat congenital neutropenia, for the treatment and prevention of neutropenia caused by chemotherapy, radiotherapy and pharmacologically-induced neutropenia, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and to increase the amount of circulating hematopoietic stem cells in peripheral blood for subsequent isolation in the process of apheresis and allogeneic or autologous transplantation.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKIInventors: Agata Szade, Krzysztof Szade, Alicja Jozkowicz, Jozef Dulak
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Patent number: 10166222Abstract: This invention is directed to derivatives of piperidine-2,6-dione, or their organic or inorganic salts thereof, a methods of synthesis of these derivatives, and their application as active pharmaceutical ingridient as inhibitors of TNF? releasing in cells, the derivative of piperidine-2,6-dione being of the general formula (I): wherein n represents 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; R1 represents from one to four of the same or different substituents selected from F, Cl, Br, C1-4 alkyl, OH, OC1-4 alkyl, NO2, NHC(O)C1-4 alkyl, NH2, NH(C1-4 alkyl), N(C1-4 alkyl)2; R2 represents OR3, NR3R4, N(R3)COR4, O2CR5; R3 and R4 represent independently and at each occurrence H or C1-4 alkyl; R5 represents CHR6NR7R8, CHR6NR9C(O)CHR10NR7R8, a heterocycle W or CHR6NR9C(O)W; R6, R9, R10 represent independently and at each occurrence H, or C1-4 alkyl; R7 and R8 represent independently and at each occurrence H, C1-4 alkyl, or R7 and R8 taken together represent 1,3-propylene, 1,4-butylene, 1,5-pentylene , or 1,6-hexylene; W represents four-Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Tianjin Hemay Bio-Tech Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hesheng Zhang
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Patent number: 10111842Abstract: Provided herein are photosensitizer compounds for use in a variety of clinical, industrial, and research applications. In particular, provided are deep eutectic solvents and natural deep eutectic solvents for use in killing of bacteria.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: University of OsloInventors: Hanne Hjorth Tønnesen, Kristine Opsvik Wikene
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Patent number: 10080759Abstract: A method of treating pruritus (itching) in a subject in need thereof is carried out by administering the subject an active agent in a treatment effective amount, wherein the active agent is a superoxide dismuate (SOD) mimetic. The SOD mimetic can be a complex of a metal (e.g., manganese) and an organic ligand, with suitable organic ligands including porphyrins, polyamines, salens, nitroxides, and fullerenes. Compositions for carrying out such methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignees: Duke University, BioMimetix J.V., LLCInventors: Ru-Rong Ji, Tong Liu, Ines Batinic-Haberle, David S. Warner, Kimberly C. Stone, James D. Crapo
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Patent number: 10010557Abstract: The use of cobalt porphyrins for the manufacture of an agent for mobilizing bone marrow cells to peripheral blood, preferably used to treat congenital neutropenia, for the treatment and prevention of neutropenia caused by chemotherapy, radiotherapy and pharmacologically-induced neutropenia, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and to increase the amount of circulating hematopoietic stem cells in peripheral blood for subsequent isolation in the process of apheresis and allogeneic or autologous transplantation.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKIInventors: Agata Szade, Krzysztof Szade, Alicja Jozkowicz, Jozef Dulak
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Patent number: 9969759Abstract: Disclosed herein are organometallic complexes and methods of using the same in detecting double stranded DNA or RNA, selectively over single stranded DNA or RNA.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: Chad A. Mirkin, Chad M. Shade, Robert D. Kennedy, Jessica Lynn Rouge, Soyoung E. Seo, Mary X. Wang
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Patent number: 9969858Abstract: A composition including a metalloinsertor conjugate that specifically targets mismatch repair (MMR)-deficient cells includes a complex represented by Formula I. Mm+(L1)(L2)(L3)(L4)(L5)??Formula I Selective cytotoxicity may be induced in MMR-deficient cells upon uptake of the metalloinsertor conjugate. Metalloinsertor complexes conjugated with platinum (Pt) may allow for more specific targeting of platinum anticancer agents.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Alyson Weidmann, Jacqueline K. Barton
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Patent number: 9867391Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of medical nutrition. For example, the present invention provides a composition that can be used to treat, prevent and/or reverse muscle atrophy related to immobilization and its consequences. One embodiment of the present invention concerns a composition comprising a leucine and antioxidants that can be used in accelerating muscle recovery after muscle atrophy.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Dominique Dardevet, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Didier Remond, Lydie Combaret, Gary Williamson, Magali Faure, Denis Breuille
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Patent number: 9855279Abstract: Methods and kits for treating oral mucositis are disclosed. The treatment comprises administering to a patient in need thereof a Reactive Oxygen Species scavenger in a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: GALERA LABS, LLCInventors: David M. Rothstein, Chris Murphy, Vivien Wong, Glenn Kazo
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Patent number: 9765103Abstract: The present invention relates to using a versatile synthetic approach to generate a new class of ester, amido, or carbamate prodrugs of highly potent, but systemically too toxic, platinum-acridine anticancer agents. The new hybrids contain a hydroxyl group, which has been masked with a cleavable lipophilic acyl moiety. Both butanoic (butyric) and bulkier 2-propanepentanoic (valproic) esters were introduced to these compounds. The goal of this design was to improve the drug-like properties of the pharmacophore (e. g., log D) without compromising its DNA-mediated cell kill potential. Two distinct pathways by which the target compounds undergo effective ester hydrolysis, the proposed activating step, have been confirmed: platinum-mediated, self-immolative ester cleavage in a low-chloride environment (LC-ESMS, NMR spectroscopy) and enzymatic cleavage by human carboxylesterase-2 (hCES-2) (LC-ESMS).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Inventors: Ulrich Bierbach, Song Ding
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Patent number: 9603928Abstract: The object of the present invention is to elucidate the resistance mechanism in infections that show resistance to ALA-PDT that uses a single ALA, and to provide a novel treatment method against these infections. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for promoting protoporphyrin IX production in ALA-PDT for treating infection, characterized in that it comprises a substance that promotes the conversion from coproporphyrinogen III to protoporphyrin IX.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: SBI Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Osaka City UniversityInventors: Masahiro Ishizuka, Urara Oto, Atsuko Kamiya, Kiwamu Takahashi, Tohru Tanaka, Toshiyuki Ozawa, Kuniyuki Morimoto, Keitaro Watanabe
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Patent number: 9592219Abstract: A new self-magnetic metal-salen complex compound and its derivatives are provided. The present invention is a metal-salen complex compound including any one of the following compounds.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignees: IHI CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Haruki Eguchi
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Patent number: 9572795Abstract: This invention relates to photodynamic therapy (PDT) of vulnerable plaque using two pluralities of nanoparticles, one plurality comprising a PDT agent that is sensitive to blue-green light wherein the nanoparticles are capable of penetrating only into the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque and one plurality comprising a PDT agent that is sensitive to red light wherein the nanoparticles are capable of penetrating into the core of the vulnerable plaque.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Syed Hossainy, Dariush Davalian, Mikael Trollsas, John Stankus, Jinping Wan
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Patent number: 9555111Abstract: Wounds in the eye following surgery or injury are sealed by soaking the area with a riboflavin solution containing iodide ion and irradiating the wound area with UVA radiation in a selected wavelength range for a selected time period to promote cross-linking of tissue between opposite surfaces of the wound or between the incised wound surfaces and a graft or implant.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: CXL Ophthalmics, LLCInventors: Roy S. Rubinfeld, Raymond A. Hartman, Sandy T. Feldman
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Patent number: 9517239Abstract: Large scale (bulk) compositions comprising high-purity stannsoporfin are disclosed, as well as methods of synthesizing such compositions.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Infacare Pharmaceutical CorporationInventors: George S. Drummond, Robert Caroselli, Keith A. Cooke, Daniel Levin, David G. Roe, Christopher P. Boucher
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Patent number: 9480657Abstract: The present teachings relate to compounds and compositions for treatment of cancers. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a platinum compound having a heterocycle ligand. Cabazitaxel-platinum nanoparticles are disclosed herein, as well as methods of making and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Tarveda Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Mark T. Bilodeau, Craig A. Dunbar, Timothy E. Barder, Edward R. Lee, Rossitza G. Alargova, Danielle N. Rockwood
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Patent number: 9365593Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I: along with compositions comprising the same and methods of using the same, such as for photodynamic therapy in the treatment of cancer.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: Katherine J. Franz, Katie L. Ciesienski
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Patent number: 9309247Abstract: The present invention provides 2-substituted imidazo[4,5-d]phenanthroline compounds, which are capable of inhibiting proliferation of one or more renal cancer cells, pancreatic cancer cells, prostate cancer cells, colon cancer cells, leukemia cells, brain cancer/tumor cells or non-small cell lung cancer cells.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: LORUS THERAPEUTICS INC.Inventors: Yoon Lee, Howard Cukier, Venkata Nedunuri, Robert Peralta, Mario Huesca, Aiping H. Young
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Patent number: 9289434Abstract: The present invention relates, in general, to a method of modulating physiological and pathological processes and, in particular, to a method of modulating cellular levels of oxidants and thereby processes in which such oxidants are a participant. The invention also relates to compounds and compositions suitable for use in such methods.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: Aeolus Sciences, Inc., National Jewish Health, Duke UniversityInventors: James D. Crapo, Brian J. Day, Michael P. Trova, Polivina Jolicia F. Gauuan, Douglas B. Kitchen, Irwin Fridovich, Ines Batinic-Haberle
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Patent number: 9290528Abstract: The presently-disclosed subject matter includes light-activated ruthenium compounds. In some embodiments the compounds release one or more ligands when exposed to light, and in specific embodiments the light includes a wavelength of about 500 nm to about 1000 nm. The present compounds can also comprise an overall charge, wherein the overall charge can be a positive overall charge or a negative overall charge. Further still, embodiments include methods of treating cancer in a subject by administering a compound and then exposing a site of the subject to light.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: University of Kentucky Research FoundationInventors: Edith C. Glazer, David K. Heidary
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Patent number: 9222922Abstract: A high performance liquid chromatography method to routinely and reproducibly detect and quantitate metal complexes is provided. The metal complexes used in the method of the invention can be different metal complexes, or they can be stereoisomers of the same metal complexes. The high performance liquid chromatography method of the present invention is suitable for the separation of diastereomers of the same metal complexes. Also provided is a chiral high performance liquid chromatography method to separate enantiomers of metal complexes. Superoxide dismutase mimetic compounds are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Galera Labs, LLCInventors: Urszula J. Slomczynska, Bobby N. Trawick, Dennis P. Riley, Arati Naik
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Patent number: 9149483Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a range of diseases or conditions. The methods involve administration of a superoxide dismutase mimetic.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: GALERA LABS, LLCInventors: Jeffery L. Keene, Dennis P. Riley, Robert A. Beardsley
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Patent number: 9150837Abstract: Compounds and methods for utilizing compounds comprising a superoxide dismutase mimetic covalently linked to polyethylene glycol. Methods are also provided for preparing a superoxide dismutase mimetic covalently linked to a polyethylene glycol, the methods comprising reacting an activated polyethylene glycol with a superoxide dismutase mimetic, or alternatively, reacting a superoxide dismutase mimetic with an activated polyethylene glycol. A method is also provided for preventing or treating a disease or disorder in which superoxide anions are implicated, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, a therapeutically effective amount of a compound comprising a superoxide dismutase mimetic covalently linked to a polyethylene glycol. Methods of determining the safety and efficacy of the compounds are also provided. Methods for determining the safety and efficacy can include methods in lab animals and humans.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: GALERA LABS LLCInventors: Daniela Salvemini, William L. Neumann, Samuel Tremont, Kishore Udipi, Amruta Reddy Poreddy
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Patent number: 9107927Abstract: Large scale (bulk) compositions comprising high-purity stannsoporfin are disclosed, as well as methods of synthesizing such compositions.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Infacare Pharmaceutical CorporationInventors: George S. Drummond, Robert Caroselli, Keith A. Cooke, Daniel Levin, David G. Roe, Christopher P. Boucher
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Patent number: 9090640Abstract: Acridine containing cisplatin compounds have been disclosed that show greater efficacy against cancer than other cisplatin compounds. Methods of delivery of those more effective cisplatin compounds to the nucleus in cancer cells is disclosed using one or more amino acids, one or more sugars, one or more polymeric ethers, C1-6alkylene-phenyl-NH—C(O)—R15, folic acid, ?v?3 integrin RGD binding peptide, tamoxifen, endoxifen, epidermal growth factor receptor, antibody conjugates, kinase inhibitors, diazoles, triazoles, oxazoles, erlotinib, and/or mixtures thereof; wherein R15 is a peptide.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Inventors: Ulrich Bierbach, Song Ding
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Patent number: 9034862Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for treatment of cancers. In some cases, the composition comprises a platinum compound comprising a phenanthridine ligand.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Stephen J. Lippard, Ga Young Park
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Publication number: 20150125550Abstract: A method of inhibiting cancer cell growth is provided. In some versions, the method includes exposing lung cancer cells or glioma cells to 2,9-di-sec-butyl-1,10-phenanthroline (SBP) or derivatives of SBP in an amount effective to inhibit glioma cell growth. Also, a method of treating a lung cancer or a glioma tumor in a subject in need of such treatment is provided. The method includes administering SBP or derivatives of SBP to the subject in an amount effective to treat the lung cancer or glioma tumor. For either method, the method can further include exposing or administering pseudo five coordinate gold(III) complexes of SBP derivatives.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Jack F. Eichler, Clement N. David, Emma H. Wilson
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Patent number: 9023402Abstract: Several classes of in vivo carbon monoxide-releasing compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, such as chronic inflammatory, e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, and of diseases with a strong inflammatory component, such as atherosclerosis, stroke, coronary disease, and Alzheimers disease. The in vivo carbon monoxide-releasing compounds can be attached to known drug vectors and/or known anti-inflammatory drugs, such as aspirin.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: ALFAMA—Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Produtos Farmacêuticos, Lda.Inventors: Werner E. Haas, Carlos C. Romao, Beatriz Royo, Ana Cristina Fernandes, Isabel Goncalves
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Patent number: 9011933Abstract: A novel method for treating skin and mucosal membrane ailments caused by human papilloma viruses, which utilizes tellurium-containing compounds, is disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing tellurium-containing compounds for treating such ailments.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Biomas Ltd.Inventors: Benjamin Sredni, Michael Albeck
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Publication number: 20150087612Abstract: Compounds having the general structural formula (I) wherein X can be any element or compound that can form a coordination complex with phthalocyanine and wherein R1; R2, R3 and R4 are independently anionic moieties, or (II) wherein R1; R2, R3 and R4 are independently anionic moieties, are useful in the potentiation of antibiotic activity, and/or in inhibiting or delaying the development of resistance to antibiotics. R1; R2, R3 and R4 may be —S03-. The compounds may be administered to a subject in conjunction with an antibiotic. The antibiotic may be an activator of the SOS response, and may be a DNA gyrase inhibitor or a topoisomerase inhibitor. Compositions and dosage forms comprising the compounds are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Clarence Ronald Geyer, Yu Luo
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Publication number: 20150064120Abstract: The present invention relates to the cosmetic use, as an antidandruff agent, of catalytic oxidation compounds chosen from porphyrins, or of a cosmetic composition comprising the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventor: Henri Samain
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Patent number: 8968715Abstract: The invention is generally related to the field of photodynamic therapy by use of photosensitizers and stabilized formulations of the photosensitizers. These formulations may be used to deliver a photosensitizer as a pharmaceutical, agricultural, or industrial agent. The photosensitizer containing formulations and compositions of the invention comprise one or more block copolymers. Furthermore, the invention relates to processes for the production of, and application of, said formulations and compositions as photosensitizer drug delivery systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: The University of British ColumbiaInventors: Rubinah K. Chowdhary, David Dolphin
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Patent number: RE47123Abstract: Antagonistic antibodies that specifically bind to and inhibit Class A Eph receptors are provided. Also provided are cytotoxic conjugates, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising these antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: SANOFIInventors: Veronique Blanc, Claudia Fromond, Fabienne Parker, Jiawen Han, Daniel Tavares, Chonghui Zhang, Min Li, Xiao-Mai Zhou, Michel Streuli