[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 165 (Tuesday, August 26, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50922-50924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-20183]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S.
Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance
with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404 to achieve expeditious
commercialization of results of federally-funded research and
development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected
inventions to extend market coverage for companies and may also be
available for licensing.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Licensing information and copies of
the U.S. patent applications listed below may be obtained by writing to
the indicated licensing contact at the Office of Technology Transfer,
National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325,
Rockville, Maryland 20852-3804; telephone: 301-496-7057; fax: 301-402-
0220. A signed Confidential Disclosure Agreement will be required to
receive copies of the patent applications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Technology descriptions follow.
A Rabbit Anti-pT1989 ATR Monoclonal Antibody for Use in Immunoassays
Description of Technology: This technology concerns a novel
monoclonal antibody for selecting new anti-cancer compounds.
The active form of ATR (ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and Rad3-
related) kinase is phosphorylated at Threonine 1989 site (T1989). The
monoclonal antibody binds the phosphorylated Threonine 1989 (T1989).
The phosphorylated ATR senses DNA damage response and leads to cell
cycle arrest. Targeting at ATR, anti-cancer drugs may induce cancer
cell death.
This technology can be applied into stable and immunoassays on
multiple platforms for measuring ATR activation and inhibition and may
inform therapeutic decisions for cancer treatment.
Potential Commercial Applications:
Antibody specifically against phosphorylated ATR (at T1989
site).
Application in assays to develop personalized medicine for
pT1989 ATR-related disease.
Application in assays for selecting measuring ATR
modulation.
Application in assays for selecting ATR inhibitors.
Competitive Advantages:
Novel antibody against ATR phosphorylated at T1989.
Possibility to establish stable and effective immunoassays
to select drugs specifically targeting ATR.
Works in western blot and IFA applications on crude
(unenriched) cell lysates.
Works in standard processed clinical and preclinical
samples.
Can be used to report drug activity.
Development Stage:
In vitro data available.
In vivo data available (animal).
Prototype.
Inventors: Thomas D. Pfister (SAIC-Frederick), Allison M. Marrero
(SAIC-Frederick), Ralph E. Parchment (SAIC-Frederick), James H.
Doroshow (NCI).
Intellectual Property: HHS Reference No. E-001-2014/0--US
Provisional Application No. 61/893,070 filed 18 Oct 2013.
Licensing Contact: Surekha Vathyam, Ph.D.; 301-435-4076;
[email protected].
Monitoring the Effects of Sleep Deprivation Using Neuronal Avalanches
Description of Technology: Investigators at the National Institute
of Mental Health have discovered a novel method for monitoring the
effects of sleep deprivation on brain activity. Sleep deprivation has
been known to adversely affect basic cognitive abilities, such as
object recognition and decision making, even leading to hallucinations
and epileptic seizures. This invention measures the degree of sleep
deprivation and decrease in behavioral performance directly from
resting brain activity. A deviation from optimal avalanche parameters
correlates with duration of wakefulness and decrease in performance.
Potential Commercial Applications:
Monitor wakefulness, reaction time.
Potential application for monitoring sleep-deprived first-
responders (e.g., military, EMT, etc.)
Competitive Advantages:
Continuously monitors brain activity.
Non-invasive.
Development Stage:
In vivo data available (human).
Prototype.
Inventors: Dietmar Plenz (NIMH), Oren Shriki (NIMH), Christian
Meisel (NIMH), Giulio Tononi (Univ. Wisconsin).
Publication: Meisel C, et al. Fading signatures of critical brain
dynamics during sustained wakefulness in humans. J Neurosci. 2013 Oct
30;33(44):17363-72. [PMID 24174669].
Intellectual Property: HHS Reference No. E-345-2013/0--US
Application No. 61/866,962 filed 16 Aug 2013.
Related Technologies: HHS Reference No. E-294-2005/1-
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US Application No. 11/990,419 filed 14 Aug 2006, which
issued as US Patent No. 8,548,786 on 01 Oct 2013.
CA Application No. 2,618,933 filed 14 Aug 2006.
AU Application No. 2006279572 filed 14 Aug 2006.
EP Application No. 06813476.6 filed 14 Aug 2006.
JP Application No. 2008-526298 filed 14 Aug 2006.
AU Application No. 2013201187 filed 14 Aug 2006.
Licensing Contact: Charlene Maddox, Ph.D.; 301-435-4689;
[email protected].
Collaborative Research Opportunity: The National Institute of
Mental Health is seeking statements of capability or interest from
parties interested in collaborative research to further develop,
evaluate or commercialize this technology. For collaboration
opportunities, please contact Suzanne Winfield, Ph.D. at
[email protected].
Simple Biosensors Based on Electrical Percolation Biological
Semiconductors
Description of Technology: The invention offered for licensing is
in the field of biosensors with application in diagnostics and in
regulation of implantable biomedical devices. More specifically, it is
related to biological semiconductors based on the electrical
percolation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The nanotubes
are embedded with biological ligands (e.g., antibodies). The electrical
resistance of a semiconducting SWNT is found to dramatically increase
upon the actuation by a specific antigen. Measurement of the change in
resistance correlates with the concentration of the specific antigen
and thus provides for quantitative determination and diagnostics of
biological samples. The simple printing fabrication of electrical
percolation biological semiconductors (EPBSC) can facilitate assembly
of numerous types of gates (e.g., antibodies, DNA, etc.) and print many
of such gates on the same chip for the creation of biological CPUs for
various biomedical applications, including direct biodetection and
regulation of implantable biomedical devices.
Potential Commercial Applications:
Pathogen detection.
Biomarker targeted diagnostics.
Point-of-care.
Food allergens.
Competitive Advantages:
Easy to assemble.
Detection of multiple analytes.
Digital signal amplification.
Stable shelf-life.
Development Stage:
In vitro data available.
Prototype.
Inventors: Avraham Rasooly (NCI), Minghui Yang (Univ. of Maryland,
Baltimore), Yordan Kostov (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore), Hugh Brock
(Univ. of Maryland, College Park).
Publications:
1. Qu F, et al. Electrochemical biosensing platform using hydrogel
prepared from ferrocene modified amino acid as highly efficient
immobilization matrix. Anal Chem. 2014 Jan 21;86(2):973-6. [PMID
24383679].
2. Herold KE, Rasooly A. Editorial for ``biosensor technologies''.
Methods. 2013 Oct;63(3):201. [PMID 24139786].
3. Bruck HA, et al. Electrical percolation based biosensors.
Methods. 2013 Oct;63(3):282-9. [PMID 24041756].
4. Balsam J, et al. Thousand-fold fluorescent signal amplification
for mHealth diagnostics. Biosens Bioelectron. 2014 Jan 15;51:1-7. [PMID
23928092].
5. Rasooly A, et al. An ELISA Lab-on-a-Chip (ELISA-LOC). Methods
Mol Biol. 2013;949:451-71. [PMID 23329460].
Intellectual Property: HHS Reference No. E-040-2009/0-
US Patent No. 8,614,466 issued 24 Dec 2013.
Pending European Patent Application 09828144.7.
Licensing Contact: Michael Shmilovich, JD; 301-435-5019;
[email protected].
Viral Like Particles Based Chikungunya Vaccines
Description of Technology: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is mosquito-
borne alphavirus endemic in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In 2013
CHIKV infection has also emerged in the Caribbean and a pandemic of
CHIKV has re-emerged in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.
Currently, there is no vaccine available for the prevention of CHIKV
infection and no specific therapy exists to treat the illness.
Researchers at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have developed a
CHIKV Viral Like Particle (CHIKV VLP) vaccine based on plasmid
expression vectors encoding structural proteins of the CHIKV virus,
which gave rise to CHIKV VLPs in transfected cells. The CHIKV VLPs
consist of the core, E1 and E2 proteins and are similar in buoyant
density and morphology to replication-competent CHIKV virus.
Immunization with CHIKV VLPs elicited neutralizing antibodies against
envelope proteins from different CHIKV strains in mouse and nonhuman
primate (NHP) models. Monkeys immunized with CHIKV VLPs produced high
titer neutralizing antibodies that protected against viremia after high
dose challenge. The selected CHIKV VLP vaccine candidate, VRC-
CHKVLP059-00-VP, composed of the E1, E2, and capsid proteins from the
CHIKV strain 37997, was recently evaluated by the VRC at the NIH
Clinical Center for safety, tolerability and immunogenicity in the
clinical protocol VRC 311 (ClinicalTrials.gov # NCT01489358), a
Phase I, open-label, dose escalation clinical trial. The VRC-CHKVLP059-
00-VP vaccine was highly immunogenic, safe, and well-tolerated. VRC
researchers have also developed the transient transfection
manufacturing process for CHIKV and other alphaviruses, such as
Western, Eastern and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (WEVEE) viruses.
Pre-clinical in vivo mouse and NHP data, Phase 1 clinical trial data
and manufacturing data are available.
NIH will evaluate a license applicant's capabilities and experience
in advancing similar technologies through the regulatory process. This
technology is not eligible for the NIH's start-up license program.
Potential Commercial Applications: Chikungunya vaccines based on
viral like particles.
Competitive Advantages:
There is currently no CHIKV vaccine on the market.
VRC-CHKVLP059-00-VP vaccine candidate is highly
immunogenic, safe, and well-tolerated.
Minimal containment requirements for CHIKV VLP
manufacturing because live virus production is not required.
Development Stage:
In vitro data available.
In vivo data available (animal).
In vivo data available (human).
Inventors: Gary J. Nabel, Wataru Akahata, Srinivas S. Rao (all of
VRC/NIAID).
Publications:
1. Akahata W, et al. A virus-like particle vaccine for epidemic
Chikungunya virus protects non-human primates against infection. Nat
Med. 2010 Mar;16(3):334-8. [PMID 20111039].
2. Akahata W, Nabel GJ. A specific domain of the Chikungunya virus
E2 protein regulates particle formation in human cells: implications
for alphavirus vaccine design. J Virol. 2012 Aug;86(16):8879-83. [PMID
22647698].
3. Chang et al. Chikungunya Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Elicits
Neutralizing Antibodies in Healthy Adults in a Phase I Clinical Trial;
manuscript submitted.
Intellectual Property:
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HHS Reference Nos. E-004-2009/0/1/2-
US Provisional Application No. 61/118,206 filed 26 Nov
2008.
US Provisional Application No. 61/201,118 filed 05 Dec
2008.
International Application No. PCT/US2009/006294 (WO 2010/
062396) filed 24 Nov 2009.
and corresponding filings in the US, Europe, China,
Australia, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, Indonesia,
Philippines and Vietnam.
HHS Reference Nos. E-057-2011/0/1/2-
US Provisional Application No. 61/438,236 filed 31 Jan
2011.
International Application No. PCT/US2012/023361 (WO 2012/
106356) filed 31 Jan 2012.
and corresponding filings in the US and India.
Licensing Contact: Cristina Thalhammer-Reyero, Ph.D., MBA; 301-435-
4507; [email protected].
Dated: August 20, 2014.
Richard U. Rodriguez,
Director, Division of Technology Development and Transfer, Office of
Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health.
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