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  • Patent number: 7067713
    Abstract: The invention provides transgenic nonhuman mammals expressing C1 inhibitor in their milk. The C1 inhibitor is useful in treating patients with hereditary angioedema or patients requiring immunosuppression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Pharming Intellectual Property B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Henricus Nuijens, Henricus Antonius Van Veen, Frank Robert Pieper, Joris Jan Heus
  • Publication number: 20040003421
    Abstract: The invention provides transgenic nonhuman mammals producing phosphorylated lysosomal proteins in their milk, and methods of generating the same. Phosphorylation occurs at the 6′ position of a mannose side chain residue. Also provided are methods of purifying lysosomal proteins from milk, and incorporating the proteins into pharmaceutical compositions for use in enzyme replacement therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Pharming B.V.
    Inventors: Arnold J.J. Reuser, Ans T. Van der Ploeg, Frank R. Pieper, Martin Ph. Verbeet
  • Patent number: 7045677
    Abstract: A process for the production of a peptide is disclosed, the process comprising expressing in the milk of a transgenic, non-human, placental mammal a fusion protein which comprises the peptide to be expressed linked to a fusion partner protein which is lysozyme. The fusion protein may be separate from the milk and cleaved to yield the target peptide. A transgenic, non-human, placental mammal whose genome incorporates a DNA molecule comprising a coding sequence encoding lysozyme coupled to a peptide is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Pharming Intellectual Property BV
    Inventors: Ian Robert Cottingham, Graham Edward McCreath
  • Patent number: 6111165
    Abstract: Production of human procollagen or collagen in cells which ordinarily do not produce these molecules is effected by constructing expression systems compatible with mammary glands of non-human mammals. For example, expression systems can be microinjected into fertilized oocytes and reimplanted in foster mothers and carried to term in order to obtain transgenic non-human mammals capable of producing milk containing recombinant human procollagen or collagen. Human procollagen or collagen produced in this manner can be made of a single collagen type uncontaminated by other human or non-human collagens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignees: Cohesion Technologies, Inc., Pharming BV
    Inventor: Richard A. Berg
  • Patent number: RE42704
    Abstract: Materials and methods for producing fibrinogen in transgenic non-human mammals are disclosed. DNA segments encoding A?, B? and ? chains of fibrinogen are introduced into the germ line of a non-human mammal, and the mammal or its female progeny produces milk containing fibrinogen expressed from the introduced DNA segments. Non-human mammalian embryos and transgenic non-human mammals carrying DNA segments encoding heterologous fibrinogen polypeptide chains are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Pharming Intellectual Property B.V.
    Inventors: Donna E. Prunkard, Donald C. Foster