Human Patents (Class 530/388.15)
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Publication number: 20150132322Abstract: This invention provides a human antibody, a hybridoma cell line for the production of the antibody, a reconstituted mouse strain for the production of the hybridoma, and methods of producing and using thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Jean Elie Kadouche, Alain Razafindrastita
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Patent number: 9029512Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies that immunospecifically bind to phospho-Akt and certain p-Akt substrates. The invention encompasses human and humanized forms of the antibodies and their use in treating cancers and other proliferative disorders. The invention also relates to p-Akt-derived peptides useful for preparing the antibodies. Methods and compositions for detecting, diagnosing, treating or ameliorating a disease or disorder, especially cancer and other proliferative disorders using the present antibodies also are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Nuclea Biotechnologies, Inc.Inventor: Patrick J. Muraca
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Publication number: 20150125464Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating immune disorders, particularly autoimmune or inflammatory disorders, and methods of producing antibodies and other compounds for use in therapeutic strategies for treating such disorders. Generally, the present methods involve the use of antibodies or other compounds that prevent the stimulation of NKG2A receptors on NK cells, leading to the lysis of dendritic cells that contribute to the pathology of the disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2015Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: ALESSANDRO MORETTA, EMANUELA MARCENARO, FRANCOIS ROMAGNE, PASCALE ANDRE
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Patent number: 9018357Abstract: Anti-VEGF antibodies and variants thereof, including those having high affinity for binding to VEGF, are disclosed. Also provided are methods of using phage display technology with naïve libraries to generate and select the anti-VEGF antibodies with desired binding and other biological activities. Further contemplated are uses of the antibodies in research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Genentech, Inc.Inventors: Germaine Fuh, Hans-Peter Gerber, Wei-Ching Liang, Frederic Fellouse, Sachdev S. Sidhu, Christian Wiesmann
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Publication number: 20150110799Abstract: The instant invention relates to low acidic species (AR) compositions comprising a protein, e.g., an antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, and methods, e.g., cell culture and/or protein purification methods, for producing such low AR compositions. Methods for using such compositions to treat a disorder, e.g., a disorder in which TNF? is detrimental, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Natarajan RAMASUBRAMANYAN, Lihua YANG, Matthew Omon HERIGSTAD, Hong YANG, Kartik SUBRAMANIAN, Xiaobei ZENG, Diane D. DONG, Wen Chung LIM, Kathreen A. GIFFORD, Zehra KAYMAKCALAN, Christopher CHUMSAE
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Publication number: 20150110776Abstract: The invention provides monoclonal antibody 3H6 and related antibodies. The 3H6 antibody binds to an epitope within residues 28-36 of IAPP. The antibodies of the invention are useful, for example, for treating disorders associated with IAPP accumulation, particularly accumulation of IAPP deposits. Such disorders include type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, impaired insulin tolerance, impaired glucose tolerance, insulinomas, and related conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Robin Barbour, Tarlochan S. Nijjar
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Patent number: 9011858Abstract: Novel compositions derived from antigen-binding sites of immunoglobulins having affinity for IL-31 are provided. The compositions exhibit immunological binding properties of antibody molecules capable of binding specifically to a human IL-31. CDR regions derived from same or different immunoglobulin moieties are provided. Also provided are single chain polypeptides wherein VH and VL domains are attached. The sFv molecules can include ancillary polypeptide moieties which can be bioactive, or which provide a site of attachment for other useful moieties. The compositions are useful in specific binding assays, affinity purification schemes, drug or toxin targeting, imaging, and genetic or immunological therapeutics for inflammatory diseases. The invention thus provides novel polypeptides, the DNAs encoding those polypeptides, expression cassettes comprising those DNAs, and methods of inducing the production of the polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: ZymoGenetics, Inc.Inventors: Anthony W. Siadak, Janine M. Bilsborough, Shirley A. Rene
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Patent number: 9011856Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to antibodies that specifically bind to TGF-beta binding proteins are provided. These methods and compositions relate to altering bone mineral density by interfering with the interaction between a TGF-beta binding protein sclerostin and a TGF-beta superfamily member, particularly a bone morphogenic protein. Increasing bone mineral density has uses in diseases and conditions in which low bone mineral density typifies the condition, such as osteopenia, osteoporosis, and bone fractures.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: UCB Pharma S.A.Inventors: David G. Winkler, Jiye Shi, John Latham
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Publication number: 20150104460Abstract: Specific binding members, particularly human antibodies, particularly recombinant antibodies, and fragments thereof, which are capable of binding to and recognizing neurons in the CNS and eliciting responses in CNS neurons are provided. The antibodies are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with nerve damage, injury or degeneration and neurodegenerative disease, and in particular in the treatment or alleviation of stroke or cerebral ischemia. The antibodies, variable regions or CDR domain sequences thereof, and fragments thereof of the invention may also be used in therapy in combination with chemotherapeutics, immune modulators, or neuroactive agents and/or with other antibodies or fragments thereof. The antibodies or active fragments thereof may be used in therapy for stroke or cerebral ischemia alone or in combination with thrombolytics such as TPA. Antibodies are exemplified by the antibodies IgM12 and IgM42 whose sequences are provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Moses Rodriguez, Arthur E. Warrington, Larry R. Pease
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Publication number: 20150099298Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies capable of binding to the coagulation Factor XI and/or its activated form factor XIa and methods of use thereof, particularly methods of use as agents inhibiting platelet aggregation and by this inhibits thrombus formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Andreas Wilmen, Julia Straßburger, Frank Dittmer, Michael Strerath, Anja Buchmüller, Joanna Grudzinska-Goebel, Ricarda Finnern, Martina Schäfer, Christoph Gerdes, Hannah Jörißen, Asako Itakura, Philberta Leung, Erik Tucker
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Patent number: 8999331Abstract: Proteins that bind sclerostin or sclerostin and TNF are described along with there use in composition and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing sclerostin related diseases and for detecting sclerostin or sclerostin and TNF in cells, tissues, samples, and compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: AbbVie Inc.Inventors: Chung-Ming Hsieh, Alexander Ivanov, Wendy Waegell, Yuliya Kutskova, John Memmott, Lorenzo Benatuil, Jacqueline Bixby, Emma Fung, Sahana Bose, Alyssa Brito
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Patent number: 9000131Abstract: This disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to and typically neutralize botulinum neurotoxins (e.g., BoNT/A, BoNT/B, BoNT/E, etc.) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: James D. Marks, Isin N. Geren
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Publication number: 20150093800Abstract: The present invention provides methods for cleaning or regenerating a chromatography materiel for reuse. The methods of the invention can be used for cleaning or regenerating chromatography columns for reuse in the large-scale manufacture of multiple polypeptide products.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Ekta MAHAJAN, Kapil KOTHARY, Joanna SO, Jay WERBER
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Publication number: 20150094455Abstract: Fully human monoclonal Abs includes (i) an antigen-binding variable region that exhibits very high binding affinity for IL-1? and (ii) a constant region that is effective at both activating the complement system though C1q binding and binding to several different Fc receptors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventor: John Simard
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Patent number: 8992916Abstract: The present invention relates to human anti-IL-13 binding molecules, particularly antibodies, and to methods for using anti-IL-13 antibody molecules in diagnosis or treatment of IL-13 related disorders, such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease and Hodgkin's lymphoma.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Emma Michelle Campbell, Sofia Parveen, Joe Buechler, Gunars Valkirs
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Patent number: 8993729Abstract: Transgenes encoding exogenous antibodies are stably integrated into donor cells and are present in the somatic tissue of chimeric birds. The transgenes encode exogenous antibodies and are preferably expressed in the oviduct for collection in the egg. Tissue specificity is provided by selecting the content of the transgene accordingly. Birds whose genome is comprised of trangene-derived exogenous antibody-encoding DNA express exogenous antibodies having desirable chemical properties with increased therapeutic utility compared to antibodies derived from bacterial expression systems.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Synageva Biopharma Corp.Inventors: Lei Zhu, Wen Zhou, Robert J. Etches
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Patent number: 8992913Abstract: The disclosure provides improved neutralizing anti-GDF-8 antibodies capable of substantially higher levels of expression in host cells compared to previous anti-GDF-8 antibodies. Also provided are methods of using compositions comprising such antibodies to increase muscle mass or strength, and to treat or prevent muscular disorders, neuromuscular disorders, metabolic disorders, adipose tissue disorders or bone disorders.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Michelle M. Mader, James R. Apgar, Kevin D. Parris
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Patent number: 8992920Abstract: The present invention is directed to therapeutic methods using IL-6 antagonists such as anti-IL-6 antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for IL-6 to prevent or treat rheumatoid arthritis.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Alderbio Holdings LLCInventor: Jeffrey T. L. Smith
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Patent number: 8992908Abstract: The present invention is directed to therapeutic methods using IL-6 antagonists such as anti-IL-6 antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for IL-6 to prevent or treat mucositis (e.g., oral mucositis) including persons on a treatment regimen with a drug or chemotherapy and/or radiation for cancer (e.g., head and neck cancer) that is associated with increased risk of mucositis, including oral mucositis.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Alderbio Holdings LLCInventors: Jeffrey T.L. Smith, Leon F. Garcia-Martinez, Andrew L. Feldhaus
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Patent number: 8992911Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to antibodies that specifically bind to TGF-beta binding proteins are provided. These methods and compositions relate to altering bone mineral density by interfering with the interaction between a TGF-beta binding protein sclerostin and a TGF-beta superfamily member, particularly a bone morphogenic protein. Increasing bone mineral density has uses in diseases and conditions in which low bone mineral density typifies the condition, such as osteopenia, osteoporosis, and bone fractures.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: UCB Pharma S.A.Inventors: David G. Winkler, Jiye Shi, John Latham
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Patent number: 8987418Abstract: Engineered multivalent and multispecific binding proteins that bind IL-1? and/or IL-17 are provided, along with methods of making and uses in the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of disease.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: AbbVie Inc.Inventors: Tariq Ghayur, JiJie Gu, Maria Harris, Carrie Goodreau, Sonal Saluja
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Patent number: 8987422Abstract: The present invention relates to CD27L antigen binding proteins, such an antibodies, polynucleotides encoding said CD27l antigen binding proteins, antibody drug conjugate compositions, and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases associated with CD27L expression.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Amgen Inc.Inventors: John M. Delaney, William Christian Fanslow, III, Chadwick Terence King
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Patent number: 8986686Abstract: The present invention provides liquid formulations of SYNAGIS® or an antigen-binding fragment thereof that immunospecifically bind to a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antigen, which formulations exhibit stability, low to undetectable levels of aggregation, and very little to no loss of the biological activities of SYNAGIS® or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, even during long periods of storage. In particular, the present invention provides liquid formulations of SYNAGIS® or an antigen-binding fragment thereof which immunospecifically binds to a RSV antigen, which formulations are substantially free of surfactant, inorganic salts, and/or other common excipients. Furthermore, the invention provides method of preventing, treating or ameliorating symptoms associated with RSV infection utilizing liquid formulations of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: MedImmune, LLCInventors: Cynthia N. Oliver, Erica Shane, Benjamin S. Isaacs, Christian B. Allan, Stephen T. Chang
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Publication number: 20150079099Abstract: The invention relates to fully human monoclonal antibodies, and fragments thereof, that bind to the chemokine Regulated upon Activation, Normal T-cell Expressed, and Secreted (RANTES, CCL5), thereby modulating the interaction between RANTES and one of more of its receptors, such as, e.g., CCR1, CCR3, CCR4 and CCR5, and/or modulating the biological activities of RANTES. The invention also relates to the use of these or any anti-RANTES antibodies in the prevention or treatment of immune-related disorders and in the amelioration of one or more symptoms associated with an immune-related disorder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Nicolas Fischer, Marie Kosco-Vilbois, François Mach
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Patent number: 8980836Abstract: The invention herein related to methods and compositions for treating nervous system disorders. The methods comprise administration of antibodies directed towards peptides that bind to receptors important in disease progression, thus attenuating the disease.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventor: Katerina Akassoglou
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Patent number: 8980272Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting metabolic bone disorders using a gene expressed at a high level in osteoclasts, a method of screening for a compound effective for treatment and/or prevention of metabolic bone disorders, and a pharmaceutical composition for treatment and/or prevention of metabolic bone disorders. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method of detecting metabolic bone disorders using expression of the human DC-STAMP gene as an indicator, a pharmaceutical composition containing an antibody which is capable of specifically recognizing human DC-STAMP and suppressing formation of osteoclasts, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Sankyo Company, LimitedInventors: Hisayuki Nomiyama, Toshio Kukita, Yoshiharu Hiruma
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Patent number: 8980257Abstract: It has been found out that among antibodies showing reactivity with wild type TGF-?, antibodies less reactive with G79A-substituted TGF-? have an excellent growth-suppressing effect on cancer cells having a mutated Ras gene. Further, it has been found out that most of these antibodies have an activity of inhibiting EGFR tyrosine phosphorylation and/or an induction-suppressing activity on vascular endothelial cells.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kaneda, Yoshihiro Fujii, Yoshihiro Hayata, Yoshiro Kishi, Ichiro Yahara
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Patent number: 8981065Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating an immune response in a subject are described. More particularly, described are human antibodies that regulate the activity of NK cells and allow a potentiation of NK cell cytotoxicity in mammalian subjects, and antibodies having antigen-binding properties similar to those of human monoclonal antibody 1-7F9 or 1-4F1. Described also are also fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and their uses, particularly for use in therapy, to increase NK cell activity or cytotoxicity in subjects.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignees: Novo Nordisk A/S—Novo Alle, Innate Pharma S.A.S., University of GenoaInventors: Alessandro Moretta, Mariella Della Chiesa, Pascale Andre, Laurent Gauthier, Francois Romagne, Peter Andreas Nicolai Reumert Wagtmann, Ivan Svendsen, Stefan Zahn, Anders Svensson, Matthias Thorolfsson, Soren Berg Padkaer, Kristian Kjaergaard, Pieter Johannes Louis Spee, Michael Wilken
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Publication number: 20150071937Abstract: This invention provides a method that allows selection of antibodies against cells (e.g., tumor cells) in situ using laser capture microdissection. By restricting antibody selection to binders of internalizing epitopes, a panel of phage antibodies was generated that targets clinically represented prostate cancer antigens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: BIN LIU, JAMES D. MARKS
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Patent number: 8975378Abstract: Provided is a human antibody having a neutralization activity against a human influenza virus. More specifically, provided is a human antibody which recognizes a highly conserved region in a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 or a human influenza B virus and has a neutralization activity against the virus. The human antibody is a human anti-human influenza virus antibody, which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 and binds to a hemagglutinin HA1 region of the human influenza A virus subtype H3N2, or which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza B virus, and includes, as a base sequence of a DNA encoding a variable region of the antibody, a sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 5 to 12.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignees: Osaka University, The Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka UniversityInventors: Kazuyoshi Ikuta, Ritsuko Koketsu, Yoshinobu Okuno, Mikihiro Yunoki, Shoji Ideno, Masatoshi Oshita, Motoki Kuhara, Masatoshi Momota
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Patent number: 8975380Abstract: The invention provides the design, preparation methods and applications of the variant of annexin V. The variant of annexin V is the protein with amino acid residue sequence in sequence 1 in the SEQUENCE LISTING, characterized in that it is the protein derived from sequence 1 by one or several amino acid residues of the sequence 1 being substituted, missing or being added and its amino acid residues have the same activity with the sequence of the sequence 1. The variant protein of the annexin V prepared form the preparation methods of the variant of the annexin V has high purity, high productivity, high labeling efficiency and stability, without effect to the biological function of the variant of the annexin V, which is applicable to industrial production and allows for further research of the variant of the annexin V.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Targetpharma Laboratories (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zichun Hua, Minjin Hu
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Patent number: 8975381Abstract: Anti-VEGF antibodies and variants thereof, including those having high affinity for binding to VEGF, are disclosed. Also provided are methods of using phage display technology with naïve libraries to generate and select the anti-VEGF antibodies with desired binding and other biological activities. Further contemplated are uses of the antibodies in research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Genentech, Inc.Inventors: Germaine Fuh, Hans-Peter Gerber, Wei-Ching Liang, Frederic Fellouse, Sachdev S. Sidhu, Christian Wiesmann
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Patent number: 8969526Abstract: The invention relates to engineered polypeptides comprising Fc variants and their uses. More specifically, Fc variants are described exhibiting reduced effector function. These variants cause a benefit for a patient suffering from a disease which could be treated with an antibody for which it is desirable to reduce the effector function elicited by antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Roche Glycart AGInventors: Monika Baehner, Stefan Jenewein, Manfred Kubbies, Ekkehard Moessner, Tilman Schlothauer
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Patent number: 8961972Abstract: The present invention provides anti-N3pGlu A? antibodies or antigen-binding fragment thereof. In addition, the present invention provides the use of the anti-N3pGlu A? antibodies or antigen-binding fragment thereof for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Eli Lilly and CompanyInventors: Jirong Lu, Ying Tang, Ronald Bradley Demattos
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Patent number: 8961976Abstract: The present invention provides peptides, and fragments thereof, and antibodies, or fragments thereof comprising the same, wherein the peptide comprises at least one amino acid substitution compared to wild type 5c8 antibody. The present invention also provides compositions and methods of treating CD154-related diseases or disorders in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Biogen Idec Ma Inc.Inventors: Herman Van Vlijmen, Alexey Lugovskoy, Karl Hanf
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Patent number: 8961975Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize anthrax lethal factor (LF), edema factor (EF), and/or protective antigen (PA). The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining anthrax toxin-binding ability, fully human or humanized antibodies retaining anthrax toxin-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Zhaochun Chen, Robert H. Purcell, Suzanne U. Emerson, Stephen H. Leppla, Mahtab Moayeri
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Publication number: 20150044225Abstract: Provided is a human antibody having a neutralization activity against a human influenza virus. More specifically, provided is a human antibody which recognizes a highly conserved region in a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 or a human influenza B virus and has a neutralization activity against the virus. The human antibody is a human anti-human influenza virus antibody, which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 and binds to a hemagglutinin HA1 region of the human influenza A virus subtype H3N2, or which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza B virus, and includes, as a base sequence of a DNA encoding a variable region of the antibody, a sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 5 to 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ikuta, Ritsuko Koketsu, Yoshinobu Okuno, Mikihiro Yunoki, Shoji Ideno, Masatoshi Oshita, Motoki Kuhara, Masatoshi Momota
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Patent number: 8945569Abstract: Antibodies that specifically bind to an extracellular domain of human Jagged 1 or human Jagged2 and modulate Jagged activity, and methods of using said antibodies to inhibit tumor growth are disclosed. Also described are methods of treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effect amount of an anti-Jagged antibody to a patient having a tumor or cancer.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Austin L. Gurney, Timothy Charles Hoey, Aaron Ken Sato, Alexandra Lazetic, Zhimin Ji
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Patent number: 8945570Abstract: The invention described herein relates to novel nucleic acid sequences and their encoded proteins, referred to as 158P1D7 and variants thereof, and to diagnostic and therapeutic methods and compositions useful in the management of various cancers that express 158P1D7 and variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Agensys, Inc.Inventors: Aya Jakobovits, Robert Kendall Morrison, Arthur B. Raitano, Pia M. Challita-Eid, Juan J. Perez-Villar, Karen Jane Meyrick Morrison, Mary Faris, Wangmao Ge, Jean Gudas, Steven B. Kanner
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Patent number: 8940276Abstract: Provided are human alpha-synuclein-specific autoantibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof as well as methods related thereto. Assays, kits, and solid supports related to antibodies specific for ?-synuclein are also disclosed. The antibody, immunoglobulin chain(s), as well as binding fragments, derivatives and variants thereof can be used in pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions for ?-synuclein targeted immunotherapy and diagnosis, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignees: Biogen Idec International Neuroscience GmbH, University of ZurichInventors: Andreas Weihofen, Jan Grimm, Roger Nitsch, Christoph Hock
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Patent number: 8940873Abstract: The invention relates to batch crystallization methods for crystallizing an anti-hIL-12 antibody that allows the production of the antibody on an industrial scale, antibody crystals obtained according to the methods, compositions containing the crystals, and methods of using the crystals and the compositions.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: AbbVie Inc.Inventors: David W. Borhani, Wolfgang Fraunhofer, Hans-Juergen Krause, Anette Koenigsdorfer, Gerhard Winter, Stefan Gottschalk
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Patent number: 8940272Abstract: Provided are novel human tau-specific antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof as well as methods related thereto. Assays, kits, and solid supports related to antibodies specific for tau are also disclosed. The antibody, immunoglobulin chain(s), as well as binding fragments, derivatives and variants thereof can be used in pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions for tau targeted immunotherapy and diagnosis, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignees: University of Zurich, Biogen Idec International Neuroscience GmbHInventors: Roger Nitsch, Feng Chen, Jan Grimm, Jean-Luc Baeriswyl, Christoph Hock
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Patent number: 8937158Abstract: The present invention relates to Fc variants having increased affinity for Fc?RIIc, methods for their generation, Fc polypeptides comprising optimized Fc variants, and methods for using optimized Fc variants.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Xencor, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Alan Lazar, Wei Dang, John R. Desjarlais, Sher Bahadur Karki, Omid Vafa, Robert Hayes
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Publication number: 20150017153Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize anthrax lethal factor (LF), edema factor (EF), and/or protective antigen (PA). The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining anthrax toxin-binding ability, fully human or humanized antibodies retaining anthrax toxin-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Zhaochun CHEN, Robert H. PURCELL, Suzanne U. EMERSON, Stephen H. LEPPLA, Mahtab MOAYERI
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Publication number: 20150010544Abstract: A monoclonal secretory IgA antibody, which binds to and neutralizes human p40 (the p40 subunit of IL-12 and IL-23). The secretory antibody is useful in treating a variety of inflammatory conditions in humans.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Gerardus Joseph Andreas Ariaans, Frans van Dalen, Declan Thomas Nolan
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Patent number: 8927696Abstract: A novel humanized antibody against the CD34 surface antigen on the human stem cells is provided. The humanized antibody contains a heavy chain variable region comprising an amino sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No. 1 and a light chain variable region comprising an amino sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No. 2. The disclosure also provides the applications of the disclosed humanized antibody.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Wei-Chun Chiu, Min-Yuan Chou
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Patent number: 8921526Abstract: The present invention is directed to modified antibodies, including anti-TNF? antibodies, in which C-terminal amino acids of heavy chain sequences are modified from a native sequence of proline-glycine-lysine (“PGK”) to one that includes a proline positioned between the glycine and lysine, resulting in a C-terminal sequence of proline-glycine-proline-lycine (“PGPK”). The invention further provides methods of producing and using such antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: AbbVie, Inc.Inventors: Chris M. Chumsae, Zehra Kaymakcalan
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Publication number: 20140377262Abstract: Materials and methods are provided for treating influenza B infections in humans. Anti-human influenza virus monoclonal antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof having a neutralization activity against a human influenza B virus are provided. Methods for producing anti-human influenza B virus monoclonal antibodies are also provided. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof can be effective against a wide range of influenza B viral strains. Methods of inhibiting or treating a human influenza B infection are provided. The anti-influenza B therapeutics can also be used to manufacture medicaments effective against influenza B infections, to detect human influenza B in a human subject, for use in pharmaceutical compositions, and for use in kits for at least one of the prevention, the treatment, and the detection of human influenza B in a human subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MICROBIAL DISEASES OF OSAKA UNIVERSITY, MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES CO., LTD., DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCESInventors: Mayo Yasugi, Motoki Kuhara, Jotika Boon-Long, Kazuhito Fujiyama, Ritsuko Koketsu, Kazuyoshi Ikuta
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Publication number: 20140363441Abstract: The present invention provides novel human anti-influenza antibodies and related compositions and methods. These antibodies are used in the diagnosis and treatment of influenza infection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Andres G. Grandea, III, Gordon King, Thomas C. Cox, Ole Olsen, Jennifer Mitcham, Matthew Moyle, Phil Hammond
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Publication number: 20140363422Abstract: Provided are novel binding molecules of human origin, particularly human antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize antigens such as native endogenous proteins associated with, e.g., immune response, autoimmune disorders, inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, vascular function, neurodegenerative diseases or tumors. More particularly, a human Auto-Immunosome and corresponding monoclonal antibody reservoir are provided. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods for use in diagnosis and therapy of are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Adrian Hayday, Kai Krohn, Annamari Ranki, Part Peterson, Kai Kisand, Edward Stuart, Annalisa MacAgno, Shimobi Onuoha