Title: Inhibition of Versican with siRNA and Other Molecules
Patent Number: 8,410,067
Filed: Oct. 31, 2008
Lead Inventor: Thomas Wight, Benaroya Research Institute
The invention, the patent’s abstract states, provides “methods of treating disease or condition in a subject in need thereof … [involving] administering the subject a versican inhibitor in an amount effective to treat the disease or condition. Example diseases or conditions include, but are not limited to, fibrotic disease such as fibrotic lung disease, restenosis such as arterial restenosis, atherosclerosis, cancer, and inflammatory disease. Compounds and compositions for carrying out such a method are also described.”
Title: Oligoribonucleotide Inhibitors of Nrf2 and Methods of Use Thereof for Treatment of Cancer
Patent Number: 8,410,069
Filed: Oct. 8, 2010
Lead Inventor: Elena Feinstein, Quark Pharmaceuticals
“The invention provides novel double-stranded oligoribonucleotides that inhibit the Nrf2 gene,” the patent’s abstract states. “The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more such oligoribonucleotides, and a vector capable of expressing the oligoribonucleotide. The … invention also relates to methods and compositions for treating or preventing the incidence or severity of a cancerous disease, particularly various lung cancers.”
Title: Methods and Compositions for Prevention or Treatment of RSV Infection
Patent Number: 8,410,073
Filed: Jan. 26, 2012
Lead Inventor: Akshay Vaishnaw, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
The patent, its abstract states, claims “methods and compositions … for the prevention or treatment of RSV infection in a human. The methods include administering one or more doses of a composition comprising an siRNA. The dose can be formulated for topical or parenteral administration. Topical administration includes administration as a nasal spray, or by inhalation of respirable particles or droplets.”
Title: Double-Stranded RNA Oligonucleotides Which Inhibit Tyrosinase Expression
Patent Number: 8,410,260
Filed: Oct. 15, 2008
Lead Inventor: Christine Djangone-Collin, L’Oreal
“Novel double-stranded RNA oligonucleotides are useful for decreasing tyrosinase expression, have cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical applications … and can be associated with cationic particles,” the patent’s abstract states.
Title: Compositions and Methods for Inhibiting Expression of a Gene from the JC Virus
Patent Number: 8,410,261
Filed: Oct. 4, 2011
Lead Inventor: Pamela Tan, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
“The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid for inhibiting the expression of a gene from the JC virus, comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length … and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of a gene from the JC virus,” according to the patent’s abstract. “The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by JC virus expression and the expression of a gene from the JC virus using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of a gene from the JC virus in a cell.”
Title: Invertebrate microRNAs
Patent Number: 8,410,334
Filed: Feb. 19, 2008
Lead Inventor: Edwards Allen, Monsanto
“This invention provides a non-natural transgenic plant cell expressing at least one invertebrate miRNA in planta for suppression of a target gene of an invertebrate pest or of a symbiont associated with the invertebrate pest; recombinant DNA constructs for expression of at least one invertebrate miRNA in planta and methods of use thereof; [and] a non-natural transgenic plant containing the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention,” according to the patent’s abstract. Also claimed is a “non-natural transgenic plant grown from the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, and non-natural transgenic seed produced by the non-natural transgenic plants, as well as commodity products produced from a non-natural transgenic plant cell, plant, or seed of this invention.”
Title: Double-Stranded RNA Constructs to Control Ants
Application Number: 20130078212
Filed: Sept. 11, 2012
Lead Inventor: Liming Zhao, US Department of Agriculture
The patent application, its abstract states, claims “double-stranded RNA constructs used to … induce mortality in ants classified in the Formicidae family.”
Title: Novel shRNA Molecules and Methods of Use Thereof
Application Number: 20130078719
Filed: June 29, 2012
Inventor: Donald Rao, Gradalis
The invention, the patent application’s abstract states, relates to “certain novel shRNA molecules and methods of use thereof. … Methods for reducing the expression level of a target gene are provided … [including those involving administering] a cell with one or more precursor nucleic acid sequences that encode two or more RNA molecules. A first RNA molecule comprises a double-stranded sequence, which includes a guide strand sequence that is complementary to a portion of an mRNA transcript encoded by the target gene. In addition, a second RNA molecule comprises a second double-stranded sequence, which includes a second guide strand sequence that is partially complementary to a portion of the mRNA transcript encoded by the target gene. Preferably, the second guide strand sequence comprises one or more bases that are mismatched with a nucleic acid sequence of the mRNA transcript encoded by the target gene.”
Title: Methods and Compositions for Modulating Gene Expression Using Oligonucleotide-Based Drugs Administered In Vivo or In Vitro
Application Number: 20130079382
Filed: Dec. 3, 2010
Inventor: Larry Smith, Smith Holdings
The patent application, its abstract states, claims “compositions and methods for down-modulating target gene expression with RNA interference, as well as methods for administering said compositions. … The method comprises administering a first strand to a cell, incubating the cell for a time period suitable for uptake of the first oligo prior to administering a second strand, wherein the first strand and said second strand form an intracellular duplex which is effective to catalyze degradation of gene target mRNA or inhibit translation of said mRNA.”
Title: siRNA and Their Use in Methods and Compositions for the Treatment and/or Prevention of Eye Conditions
Application Number: 20130079389
Filed: May 27, 2011
Lead Inventor: Marta Fraga-Lopez, Sylentis
The invention, the patent application’s abstract states, “relates to methods and compositions for the treatment/and or prevention of eye conditions related to high levels of expression and/or activity of the vanilloid-1 receptor.”
Title: Bivalent Antisense Oligonucleotides
Application Number: 20130079505
Filed: March 24, 2011
Lead Inventor: Thorleif Moller, Mirrx Therapeutics
The invention, the patent application’s abstract states, “provides bivalent molecules comprising a first oligonucleotide linked to a second oligonucleotide. The first and the second oligonucleotide are preferably linked via a linking moiety. Preferably, both the first and/or the second oligonucleotide comprise an antisense sequence complementary to a cellular RNA such as mRNA or [a] microRNA.”