Nitrogen Bonded Directly At The 2-position Of The Oxazole Ring Patents (Class 548/222)
  • Patent number: 11173146
    Abstract: Benzoxazole and indole type KCa3.1 activators as well as the therapeutic uses of such compounds in human or animal subjects and their use in ex vivo preservation of organs or tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Heike Wulff, Nichole Coleman, Brandon M. Brown, Aida Olivan-Viguera, Ralf Kohler
  • Patent number: 9120781
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula (I) for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignees: Simon Fraser University, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Alectos Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Tong-Shuang Li, Ernest J. Mceachern, David J. Vocadlo, Yuanxi Zhou, Yongbao Zhu, Kun Liu, Harold G. Selnick
  • Patent number: 9024038
    Abstract: Inhibitors of HIV-1 protease and compositions containing them are described. Use of the inhibitors and compositions containing them to treat HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related diseases is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Arun K. Ghosh, Bruno D. Chapsal, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Cuthbert D. Martyr
  • Patent number: 9012481
    Abstract: Novel benzoarylureido compounds and a use thereof for prevention and/or treatment of the neurodegenerative brain disease are provided. The neurodegenerative brain diseases may include Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, amyloidosis, Pick's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Huntington's disease, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hoh-Gyu Hahn, Kee-Dal Nam, Dong-Yun Shin, Chan-Ho Park, Sung-Woo Cho, Eun-A Kim, Ghil-Soo Nam, Kyung-Il Chol, Seon-Hee Seo, Hee-Sup Shin, Dong-Jin Kim, Ae-Nim Pae, Hye-Jin Chung, Hyun-Ah Choo, Hye-Whon Rhim, Yong-Seo Cho, Eun-Joo Roh, Gyo-Chang Keum, Kee-Hyun Choi, Kye-Jung Shin, Chan-Seong Cheong, Jae-Kyun Lee, Yong-Koo Kang, Young-Soo Kim, Woong-Seo Park, Key-Sun Kim, He-Sson Chung, Chi-Man Song, Sun-Joon Min, Eunice Eun-Kyeong Kim, Cheol-Ju Lee, Soon-Bang Kang
  • Publication number: 20150072958
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to, among other things, compounds and methods of using those compounds to treat an HIV infection. The compounds of the various embodiments of the present invention provide, among other things, therapeutic agents having enhanced penetration capability across the blood-brain barrier, such that they can enter the CNS to treat an HIV-1 infection in the CNS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Arun K. Ghosh, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Sofiya Yashchuk
  • Publication number: 20150045346
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicants: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., ALECTOS THERAPEUTICS INC.
    Inventors: Tong-Shuang Li, Ernest J. McEachern, David J. Vocadlo, Yuanxi Zhou, Harold G. Selnick
  • Patent number: 8952058
    Abstract: Provided herein are heterocyclic compounds for treatment of CSF1R, FLT3, KIT, and/or PDGFR? kinase mediated diseases. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ambit Biosciences Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Hadd, Michael D. Hocker, Mark W. Holladay, Gang Liu, Martin W. Rowbottom, Shimin Xu
  • Patent number: 8883833
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted benzothiazoles, benzoxazoles—and their counterparts having pyridine and pyrimidine rings replacing the benzene ring—that are PDE4 inhibitors useful for treating stroke, myocardial infarct, and cardiovascular inflammatory conditions, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and to methods for the treatment of stroke, myocardial infarct, and cardiovascular inflammatory conditions in a mammal. The compounds have general formula I: in which A and B are carbocycles or heterocycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Decode Genetics EHF
    Inventors: Jasbir Singh, Mark E. Gurney, Alex Burgin, Vincent Sandanayaka, Alexander Kiselyov, Munagala Rao
  • Patent number: 8877741
    Abstract: The invention relates to new pyrrolidine derivatives of the formula to their use as medicaments, to methods for their therapeutic use and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Fleck, Niklas Heine, Bernd Nosse, Gerald Juergen Roth
  • Publication number: 20140243366
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, which modulate the activity of store-operated calcium (SOC) channels. Also described herein are methods of using such SOC channel modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that would benefit from inhibition of SOC channel activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: CalciMedica, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. WHITTEN, Yazhong Pei, Jianguo Cao, Zhijun Wang, Evan Rogers, Brian Dyck, Jonathan Grey
  • Publication number: 20140235857
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a compound represented by a formula (I) and a method for producing thereof (in the formula, Ax is an organic group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms that includes at least one aromatic ring selected from a group consisting of an aromatic hydrocarbon ring and an aromatic hetero ring, Ay is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an organic group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms that includes at least one aromatic ring selected from a group consisting of an aromatic hydrocarbon ring and an aromatic hetero ring, or the like. Ax and Ay optionally bond to each other to form a ring, and Q is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Kumi Okuyama, Yasushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20140206665
    Abstract: The invention is directed to compounds for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, uses of the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, and/or accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicants: Alectos Therapeutics Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Harold G. Selnick, Kun Liu, Ernest J. McEachern, Yuanxi Zhou, Yongbao Zhu
  • Patent number: 8759539
    Abstract: Described herein are substituted bicyclic amines. In particular, described herein are substituted bicyclic amines that are effective as antagonists of SSTR5 and useful for the treatment, control or prevention of disorders responsive to antagonism of SSTR5, such as type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, lipid disorders, obesity, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, depression, and anxiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jiafang He, John Bawiec, Weiguo Liu, Gui-Bai Liang, Lihu Yang
  • Publication number: 20140171430
    Abstract: Disubstituted octahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole compounds are described, which are useful as orexin receptor modulators. Such compounds may be useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of diseased states, disorders, and conditions mediated by orexin activity, such as insomnia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA NV
    Inventors: Michael A. Letavic, Rudolph A. Dale, Brad M. Savall, Brock T. Shireman, Devin Swanson
  • Publication number: 20140142117
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel “reverse amide” compounds comprising a zinc chelator group, and the use of such compounds in the inhibition of HDAC6 and in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions related to HDAC6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: John H. van Duzer, Ralph Mazitschek, Walter Ogier, James E. Bradner, Guoxiang Huang, Dejian Xie, Nan Yu
  • Publication number: 20140142266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerizable compound represented by a formula (I). The present invention provides a polymerizable compound, a polymerizable composition, a polymer, and an optically anisotropic article that are capable of obtaining an optical film having a low melting point, having excellent solubility, capable of being manufactured at low cost, and capable of uniform polarized light conversion across a broad wavelength region. [In formula: Y1 to Y6 are independently a chemical single bond, —O—, —O—C(?O)—, —C(?O)—O— etc.; G1 and G2 are independently a divalent C1-C20 aliphatic group etc.; Z1 and Z2 are independently C2-C10 alkenyl group that is substituted with a halogen atom etc.; Ax is a C2-C30 organic group that includes at least one aromatic ring selected from a group consisting of an aromatic hydrocarbon ring and an aromatic hetero ring; Ay is a hydrogen atom, a C1-C20 alkyl group, a C2-C20 alkenyl group, a C3-C12 cycloalkyl group etc.; A1 is a trivalent aromatic group etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Kumi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8653259
    Abstract: The invention provides the process illustrated in scheme 1 for synthesizing heterocyclic compounds of formula I. In the process, an isothiocyanate of formula II is initially reacted with a primary amine or formula III to give a thiourea of formula IV. Subsequently, the thiourea of formula IV is converted to the corresponding heterocycle of formula I using a base and a sulfonyl chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Heinelt, Hans-Jochen Lang
  • Patent number: 8629168
    Abstract: The invention relates to 2,7-disubstituted benzoxazole and 2,4-disubstituted oxazolo[5,4-c]pyridine compounds of the formula I given below, as well as salts thereof, processes for the preparation thereof, the application thereof in a process for the treatment of the human or animal body, these compounds for use in the treatment (including prophylaxis) of the animal, especially human, body (especially with regard to a proliferative disease), the use thereof—alone or in combination with one or more other pharmaceutically active compounds—for the treatment especially of a protein tyrosine kinase mediated disease (such as a tumor disease) or for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical preparation for use in the treatment of such a disease, a method for the treatment of such a disease and a pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of a disease as mentioned. The compounds are of the formula I, wherein the symbols are as defined in the description. The compounds inhibit, for example, JAK2 and JAK3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Inventors: Marc Gerspacher, Pascal Furet, Eric Vangrevelinghe
  • Patent number: 8614240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoxazole derivatives represented by the Formula 1, which has an inhibitory activity against interleukin-6 (IL-6), a method for preparation thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. The compound represented by the Formula 1 according to the present invention has a superior inhibitory activity against interleukin-6, and therefore, can be practically applied for prevention and treatment of diseases caused by abnormal interleukin-6 activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: EWHA University-Industry Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Hea Young Park Choo, Young Kook Kim, Jung Ho Choi, Jin Ah Kim
  • Publication number: 20130289067
    Abstract: Inhibitors of HIV-1 protease and compositions containing them are described. Use of the inhibitors and compositions containing them to treat HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related diseases is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Arun K. GHOSH, Bruno D. Chapsal, Hiroaki Mitsuya
  • Publication number: 20130289057
    Abstract: The invention relates to N-arylaminomethylenebenzothiophenones of General Formula (I) for use as a drug for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases: wherein E is S, O, or CH2, D is CH or NH, and Ar is a phenyl or naphtyl moiety substituted by an electron-withdrawing group, an unsubstituted heteroaryl residue, or a heteroaryl residue substituted by alkyl or an electron-withdrawing group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicants: FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V., MAX-DELBRUCK-CENTRUM FUR MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN
    Inventors: Enno Klussmann, Walter Rosenthal, Jelena Milic, Martin W. Bergmann
  • Publication number: 20130203818
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, which modulate the activity of store-operated calcium (SOC) channels. Also described herein are methods of using such SOC channel modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that would benefit from inhibition of SOC channel activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: CALCIMEDICA, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Whitten, Yazhong Pei, Jianguo Cao, Zhijun Wang, Evan Rogers, Brian Dyck, Jonathan Grey
  • Patent number: 8481547
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to substituted benzothiazole and benzoxazole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of disorders and conditions modulated by DPP-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Alfonzo D. Jordan, Renee L. DesJarlais, Dennis J. Hlasta, Michael H. Parker, Carsten Schubert, Kimberly White
  • Publication number: 20130158004
    Abstract: Azetidine derivatives of which the following is exemplary and their use in the treatment of obesity, diabetes or dyslipidemia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Martin FLECK, Bernd NOSSE, Niklas HEINE, Gerald Juergen ROTH
  • Publication number: 20130131044
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula (I) for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Tong-Shuang Li, Ernest J. Mceachern, David J. Vocadlo, Yuanxi Zhou, Yongbao Zhu
  • Patent number: 8426455
    Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for hyperlipidemia having an excellent effect of lowering the cholesterol and triglyceride level in blood plasma. The present invention relates to a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for hyperlipidemia, a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for obesity or diabetes mellitus, and a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for metabolic syndrome, each agent including a compound represented by the formula (1), or a salt thereof, and a statin, particularly pitavastatin, in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kowa Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takizawa, Noriyuki Inoue, Katsutoshi Miyosawa
  • Publication number: 20130096113
    Abstract: Provided herein are heterocyclic compounds for treatment of CSF1R, FLT3, KIT, and/or PDGFR? kinase mediated diseases. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Ambit Biosciences Corporation
    Inventor: Ambit Biosciences Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130090480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoxazole derivatives represented by the Formula 1, which has an inhibitory activity against interleukin-6 (IL-6), a method for preparation thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. The compound represented by the Formula 1 according to the present invention has a superior inhibitory activity against interleukin-6, and therefore, can be practically applied for prevention and treatment of diseases caused by abnormal interleukin-6 activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Hea Young Park Choo, Young Kook Kim, Jung Ho Choi, Jin Ah Kim
  • Publication number: 20130079374
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula which is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diseases related to the action of melatonin, or a salt thereof and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITE
  • Publication number: 20130035324
    Abstract: Heterocyclic entities that modulate PI3 kinase activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing the heterocyclic entities, and methods of using these chemical entities for treating diseases and conditions associated with PI3 kinase activity are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Pingda Ren, Yi Liu, Liansheng Li, Katrina Chan, Troy Edward Wilson, Simon Fraser Campbell
  • Publication number: 20130001536
    Abstract: A novel organic compound which can be preferably used as a phosphorescent host material is provided. A benzoxazolyl carbazole compound represented by the general formula [1] shown in the specification is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Sekiguchi, Koichi Suzuki, Hajime Muta, Ryuji Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120283300
    Abstract: This application relates to a novel benzo-heterocycle derivative and more particularly, it relates a composition for preventing and treating cancer or for inhibiting metastasis comprising benzo-heterocycle derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as an active ingredient. The present inventors confirmed that KRS has an effect on cancer metastasis by facilitating cancer (or tumor) cell migration through interaction with 67LR, and also found that a substance inhibiting the interaction between KRS and 67LR can prevent and treat cancer by inhibiting cancer cell metastasis. Accordingly, the composition of the present invention can inhibit cancer metastasis, and thus provide a novel means for prevention and treatment of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kim, Jin Woo Choi, Jin Young Lee, Dae Gyu Kim, Gyoon Hee Han, Jee Sun Yang, Chul Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20120277441
    Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (I) or a salt or solvate thereof, by reacting a compound of formula (IV): with a compound of formula (V): to obtain the compound of formula (I): wherein each R1 is independently a halogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 haloalkyl, C1-C6 haloalkoxy or C1-C6 alkylcarbonyl; R2 is C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 haloalkyl, or phenyl optionally substituted with at least one selected from the group consisting of a halogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 haloalkyl, C1-C6 haloalkoxy, and nitro; R3 is C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, or a phenyl optionally substituted at least one selected from the group consisting of a halogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 haloalkyl, and C1-C6 haloalkoxy; n is 0, 1, or 2; and X is S atom or O atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Shionogi & Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kunitani, Kenji Takaya, Yoshiaki Imamura, Aiko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8293774
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically active (R)-aryloxypropionic acid amide compound which has high selectivity and safety for protecting a crop such as rice, wheat, barley and soy bean, and exhibits excellent herbicidal activity against weeds, and a herbicidal composition comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Kyung Nong Corporation
    Inventors: Joo-kyung Kim, Dong-hoo Kim, Hyung-ho Kim, Kyung-hyun Kim, Cheol-su Yoon, In-cheon Hwang
  • Patent number: 8268803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 5,6-ring annulated indole derivatives of the formula (I), compositions comprising at least one 5,6-ring annulated indole derivatives, and methods of using the 5,6-ring annulated indole derivatives for treating or preventing a viral infection or a virus-related disorder in a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Frank Bennett, Srikanth Venkatraman, F. George Njoroge, Kevin X. Chen, Neng-Yang Shih, Stuart B. Rosenblum, Joseph A. Kozlowski
  • Publication number: 20120207729
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted benzothiazoles, benzoxazoles—and their counterparts having pyridine and pyrimidine rings replacing the benzene ring—that are PDE4 inhibitors useful for treating stroke, myocardial infarct, and cardiovascular inflammatory conditions, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and to methods for the treatment of stroke, myocardial infarct, and cardiovascular inflammatory conditions in a mammal. The compounds have general formula I: in which A and B are carbocycles or heterocycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: DECODE GENETICS EHF
    Inventors: Jasbir SINGH, Mark E. GURNEY, Alex BURGIN, Alexander KISELYOV, Munagala RAO
  • Publication number: 20120208812
    Abstract: Disubstituted octahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole compounds are described, which are useful as orexin receptor modulators. Such compounds may be useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of diseased states, disorders, and conditions mediated by orexin activity, such as insomnia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    Inventors: Wenying Chai, Michael A. Letavic, Kiev S. Ly, Daniel J. Pippel, Dale A. Rudolph, Kathleen C. Sappey, Brad M. Savall, Chandravadan R. Shah, Brock T. Shireman, Akinola Soyode-Johnson, Emily M. Stocking, Devin M. Swanson
  • Patent number: 8242128
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula 1, the production and use thereof as a medicament for the treatment of diseases, particularly tumours and/or diseases caused, mediated or propagated by angiogenesis. The compounds of formula 1 are effective inhibitors of tyrosin kinases, particularly TIE-2 and VEGFR, and Raf-kinases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stähle, Alfred Jonczyk, Wilfried Rautenberg
  • Patent number: 8227618
    Abstract: This invention provides an anorectic or anti-obesity composition comprising a compound of the formula (I): formula (I): a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein R1 is optionally substituted lower alkyl, Y is —S(O)n- wherein n is 1 or 2, or —CO—, R2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R7 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, X is lower alkylene, lower alkenylene, arylene, cycloalkylene or the like, and Z is lower alkyl, optionally substituted carbocyclyl, optionally substituted heterocyclyl or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Okuno, Masahiro Sakagami
  • Publication number: 20120165377
    Abstract: An FGF21 production promoting agent containing, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein each of R1 and R2, which may be identical to or different from each other, represents, for example, a hydrogen atom; each of R3a, R3b, R4a, and R4b, which may be identical to or different from one another, represents, for example, a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, or R3a and R3b or R4a and R4b may bond together to form an alkylenedioxy group; X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or N—R5 (R5 represents, for example, a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group); Y represents, for example, an oxygen atom, an S(O)l group (l is a number of from 0 to 2), or a carbonyl group; Z represents CH or N; n is a number of from 1 to 6; and m is a number from 2 to 6, a salt of the compound, or a solvate of the compound or the salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Kowa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takizawa, Kentaro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20120149718
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of making the compounds and using the compounds for treatment of diseases associated with the P2X7 purinergic receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Christine E. Brotherton-Pleiss, Keith A. M. Walker
  • Publication number: 20120115903
    Abstract: Substituted heteroaromatic carboxamide and urea compounds corresponding to formula (i) processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and also a method of using these compounds in pharmaceutical compositions for treating or inhibiting pain and other conditions mediated at least in part via the vanilloid receptor 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank, Thomas Christoph, Bernhard Lesch, Jeewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20120101103
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I: (I) in which A, A1, R1, R7a, R7b, R8 and R10 have the meanings given in the specification, are DP2 receptor inhibitors useful in the treatment of useful in the treatment and prevention of immunologic diseases, allergic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis and atopic dermatitis, and other inflammatory diseases mediated by prostaglandin D2 (PGD2). The compounds of Formula I may also be useful in treating diseases or medical conditions involving the Th2 T cell via production of IL-4, IL-5 and/or IL-13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: ARRAY BIOPHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Adam Cook, Kevin W. Hunt, Robert Kirk Delisle, Todd Romoff, Christopher T. Clark, Ganghyeok Kim, Christopher P. Corrette, George A. Doherty, Laurence E. Burgess
  • Publication number: 20110319456
    Abstract: Novel benzoarylureido compounds and a use thereof for prevention and/or treatment of the neurodegenerative brain disease are provided. The neurodegenerative brain diseases may include Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, amyloidosis, Pick's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Huntington's disease, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hoh-Gyu Hahn, Kee-Dal Nam, Dong-Yun Shin, Chan-Ho Park, Sung-Woo Cho, Eun-A Kim, Ghil-Soo Nam, Kyung-Il Chol, Seon-Hee Seo, Hee-Sup Shin, Dong-JIn Kim, Ae-Nim Pae, Hye-JIn Chung, Hyun-Ah Choo, Hye-Whon Rhim, Yong-Seo Cho, Eun-Jon Roh, Gyo-Chang Keum, Kee-Hyun Choi, Kye-Jung Shin, Chan-Seong Cheong, Jae-Kyun Lee, Yong-Koo Kang, Young-Soo Kim, Woong-Seo Park, Key-Sun Kim, He-Sson Chung, Chi-Man Song, Sun-Joon Min, Eunlce Eun-Kyeong Kim, Cheol-Ju Lee, Soon-Bang Kang
  • Publication number: 20110301156
    Abstract: Vanilloid receptor ligand compounds corresponding to formula I: pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, a process for producing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for treating or inhibiting pain and various other disorders or conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Frank, Gregor Bahrenberg, Thomas Christoph, Klaus Schiene, Jean De Vry, Derek Saunders, Bernd Sundermann, Jeewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 8030495
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to cyclopropyl proline bis-amide compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventors: Paul J. Coleman, Swati P. Mercer, Anthony J. Roecker
  • Publication number: 20110237631
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula (I) for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcN Ac.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Simon Fraser University
    Inventors: David Jaro Vocadlo, Ernest John Mceachern
  • Publication number: 20110207737
    Abstract: Described herein are substituted bicyclic amines. In particular, described herein are substituted bicyclic amines that are effective as antagonists of SSTR5 and useful for the treatment, control or prevention of disorders responsive to antagonism of SSTR5, such as type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, lipid disorders, obesity, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, depression, and anxiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Jiafang He, John Bawiec, Weiguo Liu, Gui-Bai Liang, Lihu Yang
  • Publication number: 20110201580
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel anti-inflammatory and antiallergic compounds of the glucocorticosteroid series, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, combinations and therapeutic uses thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to glucocorticosteroids that are derivatives of pyrrolidine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Eleonora GHIDINI, Andrea RIZZI, Andrea VIRDIS, Fabio RANCATI, Anna RENCUROSI
  • Publication number: 20110172245
    Abstract: Provided is a heterocyclic compound showing strong Raf inhibitory activity. A compound represented by the formula wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaaki Hirose, Masanori Okaniwa, Takashi Imada