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FraB as a drug target and FraB inhibitors as Salmonella-specific narrow-spectrum therapeutics
TS-059635 — & T2014-282 A method to discover narrow-spectrum antibiotics of salmonellosis, as well as small molecule inhibitors of Salmonella FraB and a Salmonella probiotic strain to enhance the efficacy of FraB inhibitors.
Non-typhoidal salmonellosis is one of the most significant food-borne diseases, in the United States and globally. There are no vaccines available for human use to prevent this disease, and only broad-spectrum antibiotics available to treat the disease. However, antibiotic resistance is on the ris…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Ahmer, Brian; Boulanger, Erin; Cool, Austin; Gopalan, Venkat; Kovvali, Sai Sravya Varali; Law, Jamison; Lindert, Steffen; Sabag-Daigle, Anice; Sengupta, Anindita; Thirugnanasambantham, Pankajavalli
  • Licensing Officer: Csatary, Erika

An Orally Active, Selective Inhibitor of CD4+ T-Cell Activation That Blunts Left-Ventricular Remodeling and Improves Cardiac Function during Chronic Heart Failure
TS-057777 — A novel orally-active drug molecule that can inhibit pathological CD4+ T-cells at clinically translatable doses and, blunts progressive cardiac dysfunction and left-ventricular (LV) remodeling during Heart Failure (HF).
HF afflicts ~6.5 million adults in US with 50% mortality in first 5 years. It has an estimated market size of $4.2B USD in US alone with a forecasted CAGR of 23% from 2018-2028. Current HF treatments are mostly aimed at alleviating symptoms rather than treatment, resulting in progressive cardiac d…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Bansal, Shyam; Gumina, Richard
  • Licensing Officer: He, Panqing

Albumin-SN-38 Conjugate (AlbuCure) for Cancer Therapy
TS-057776 — A novel protein-drug conjugate of human serum albumin chemically conjugated to SN-38, solubilizing the potent chemotherapeutic. This therapy has the potential to treat many tumors with poor prognosis, including pancreatic, lung, breast, colorectal, ovarian, sarcoma, head and neck cancer, urothelial malignancies, and others.
Many solid tumors have poor prognosis despite recent progress in molecularly targeted therapy and immunotherapy. Irinotecan/CPT-11, a chemotherapy on the WHO Essential Medicines List, is approved for use in colorectal cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, malignant glioma, and sa…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Williams, Terence; Lee, Robert
  • Licensing Officer: He, Panqing

Novel Natural Product Derivatives Targeting Chronic Diseases
TS-050220 — Novel natural products and derivatives thereof that exhibit potent in vitro and in vivo activity
The Need Metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes are a major health concern that have impacted hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. Current pharmaceutical therapies for type 2 diabetes have been associated with adverse reactions including weight gain and increased risk of infection, liver …
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Carcache de Blanco, Esperanza; Anaya Eugenio, Gerardo David; Eggers, Nicole
  • Licensing Officer: He, Panqing

Inhibition of DGAT for the treatment of cancer
TS-049730 — Dysregulated fat metabolism is an established hallmark of cancer cells. However, the disruption of lipid homeostasis in cancer cells remains an elusive target for therapy. Tumor cells acquire abundant fats for rapid cell growth, but how they avoid toxicity from such loading is unknown. An answer t…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Guo, Deliang
  • Licensing Officer: He, Panqing

Novel epipolythiodioxopiperazine alkaloid natural product derivatives for the treatment of cancer and other diseases
TS-047118 — Analogues of verticillin with significantly improved drug-like properties, including increased solubility, absorption, and stability, while maintaining similar anticancer potency as the verticillin parent compounds.
Verticillins, which are epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) alkaloids, have shown promising anticancer qualities; these fungal metabolites have exhibited high potency against a variety of tumor cell types, with IC50 values typically in the 10-500 nanomolar range. However, these compounds suffer from …
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Fuchs, James; Huntsman, Andrew
  • Licensing Officer: He, Panqing

Electrophiles for Re-activation of Aged Acetylcholine Esterase
TS-044619 — Organophosphorus (OP) poisons including sarin, VX, and novichoks are lethal agents of chemical warfare. Their toxicity is due to their direct inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme that is vital to the nervous system via regulation of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh). AChE in…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Hadad, Christopher; Callam, Christopher; Corrigan, Thomas; Dicken, Rachel; Dogan Ekici, Ozlem; Fitzpatrick, Keegan; Franjesevic, Andrew; McElroy, Craig; McKenney, Ryan; Muthukrishnan, Siva; Sanan, Toby; Vyas, Shubham; Yoder, Ryan; Young, Amneh "Amneh"
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

A Small Molecule That Disperses Salmonella Biofilms
TS-041469 — A new compound to eliminate Salmonella biofilms to reduce typhoid fever.
The bacterium Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) is the causative agent of typhoid fever – infecting and killing an estimated 21 million and 200,000 individuals each year, respectively. Individuals contract the disease by consuming food or water contaminated with the etiologic agent …
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Gunn, John; Huggins, William; Kuo, Laura; Melander, Christian
  • Licensing Officer: Csatary, Erika

Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis with Small Molecule IL-6/STAT3 Inhibitors
TS-038701 — Small-molecule prodrugs that target IL-6/STAT3 signaling pathway.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an unpredictable and disabling autoimmune disease affecting the central nervous system, is the leading cause of non-traumatic neurological disability in young adults. There have been important advances in MS therapy, such as drugs that slow the progression of the disease a…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Yang, Yuhong; Li, Chenglong; Racke, Michael
  • Licensing Officer: He, Panqing

Targeted molecules for the treatment of cancer
TS-038027 — Novel dihdroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) small-molecule inhibitors for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Multiple Myeloma, & Graft vs. Host Disease / Leukemia.
DHODH is a rate-limiting enzyme in de novo pyrimidine synthesis. Rapidly dividing cancer cells are therefore sensitive to blockade of this pathway. New research has shown DHODH inhibition can induce differentiation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines, translating to increased survival in an…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Byrd, John; Abdulrahim, Mouad; Elgamal, Ola; Goodwin, Thomas; Hertlein, Erin; Ravikumar, Pratheepa; Shah, Dimple
  • Licensing Officer: Schworer, Adam

A novel STK1-targeted small molecule as an antibiotic resistance breaker
TS-037880 — Inh2-B1 serves as a therapeutically important “antibiotic-resistance-breaker,” which enhances the bactericidal activity of Ceftriaxone/Cefotaxime against highly pathogenic MDRSA infection.
Highly pathogenic and multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus species encompasses methicillin-resistant strains of S. aureus (MDRSA) and S. epidermidis (MDRSE) that have developed resistance to multiple traditional antibiotics, including the 5th generation cephalosporin (Ceftaroline). Because of the re…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Pancholi, Vijay
  • Licensing Officer: Csatary, Erika

Oral cancer chemopreventive rinse
TS-037788 — Rinses with sustained contact time and field coverage have been developed to prevent oral cancer.
Oral cancer affects nearly 50,000 Americans each year and has a five year survival rate of 57%. Often, oral cancer is only discovered when it has metastasized, as it does not present recognizable symptoms, and it has a high risk of producing secondary tumors. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a…
  • College: College of Dentistry
  • Inventors: Mallery, Susan; Lahann, Joerg
  • Licensing Officer: Csatary, Erika

Novel Small-Molecule Integrin-linked Kinase/Phosphoinositide-dependent Protein Kinase-2 Inhibitors
TS-037647 — A novel set of molecules that inhibit integrin-linked kinase in order to suppress tumor cell growth and metastasis.
The Akt signaling pathway is responsible for apoptosis, cell proliferation, and metabolism. In tumor cells, this pathway is up-regulated and aids in promoting cancer cell survival. Complete activation of Akt pathway requires phosphorylation at two amino-acid residues, which are phosporylated by se…
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Kulp, Samuel; Lee, Su-Lin
  • Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya

Estrogen Receptor Beta Agonist Compounds
TS-015086 — Estrogen Receptor Beta Agonists for the treatment of breast, colon, and prostate cancers as well as inflammatory diseases.
There is a large emphasis on the need for novel and more effective cancer therapeutics, since there were nearly 600,000 cancer deaths in the United States in 2016 alone. One method for therapy of prostate, breast, and colon cancer that has been gaining traction is the targeting of estrogen recepto…
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Tjarks, Werner; Bartunek, Petr; Sedlak, David
  • Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya

Small Molecule AR-Ablative Agents
TS-014842 — A new strategy for using androgen receptor ablative agents has been developed for prostate cancer therapy.
Hormone-refractory prostate cancer is incurable, and patients with this disease have few treatment options. Dysregulation of the androgen receptor (AR) is a hallmark of this incurable cancer. Molecular changes during cancer enhance AR sensitivity or permit AR activation by antiestrogen so that pro…
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Wang, Dasheng; Yang, Jian
  • Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya

Topical Compounds to Treat Leishmania
TS-014819 — A new class of drugs for the treatment of Leishmania.
Leishmaniasis is an infection caused by Leishmania parasites, spread by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. It is prevalent in the tropics, subtropics, and southern Europe and is considered a neglected disease. Over a million people are infected with the parasite yearly, leading to skin sores and i…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Satoskar, Abhay; Fuchs, James; Isaac-Marquez, Angelica; Kinghorn, Alan "Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn"; Lezama-Davila, Claudio; Pan, Li
  • Licensing Officer: Csatary, Erika

Novel Indole-3-Carbinol-Derived Antitumor Agents
TS-014815 — An anti-tumor agent developed from indol-3-carbinol, a naturally occurring phytochemical in cruciferous vegetables.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US at approximately 600,000 deaths per year. In addition, the National Cancer Institute estimates that nearly 1.7 million cases of cancer are diagnosed each year. A report from U.S. News …
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Weng, Jing-ru
  • Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya

Novel Protein Kinase C Delta Activators
TS-014754 — A novel anti-cancer agent (OSU-2S) that is devoid of S1P1 receptor activity and is highly effective in suppressing hepatocellular carcinoma tumor growth in vivo.
The third leading cause of cancer death worldwide is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Due to the rise in the incidence of hepatitis C virus infection, HCC is expected to increase in the United States. Many patients with HCC are not candidates for surgery because of the location or size of their tum…
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Byrd, John; Kulp, Samuel; Muthusamy, Natarajan; Wang, Dasheng
  • Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya

Glucose Transporter Inhibitors (GLUT1 Inhibitors)
TS-014734 — A potential cancer treatment that suppresses the ability for cancer cells to intake glucose, thereby hampering cancer cell production.
A fundamental property of neoplastic cells is the shift in cellular metabolism from oxidative phosphorylation to aerobic glycolysis. This glycolytic shift, called the Warburg effect, enables cancer cells to adapt to low-oxygen microenvironments, to generate biosynthetic building blocks for cell pr…
  • College: College of Pharmacy
  • Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Kulp, Samuel; Wang, Dasheng
  • Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya

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