| OTTAWA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE Patent applications |
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| 20120071630 | Nucleic Acid and Amino Acid Sequences of Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus and Their Use as Vaccines - The present invention provides the use of nucleic acid sequences and/or amino acid sequences in the preparation of a vaccine for the protection of fish against infectious salmon anaemia virus. Specifically, such vaccines contain at least one nucleic acid sequence which is derived from ISAV or synthetically prepared analogues thereof, or substantially homologous sequences. These nucleic acid sequences are transcripted and translated into peptide sequences which are incorporated into a vaccination strategy to induce and immune response to the surface antigens of ISAV and therefore ISAV itself. Therefore both the use of a vaccine against ISAV, and the incorporation of peptide sequences is herein described. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20110044952 | AMPLIFICATION OF CANCER-SPECIFIC ONCOLYTIC VIRAL INFECTION BY HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS - The invention provides methods for treating cancer cells in a host by infecting the cancer cells with one or more strains of oncolytic virus, in conjunction with treating the host with an amount of an HDI that is effective to augment the cancer-cell-specific oncolytic infection. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044937 | STAGED IMMUNE-RESPONSE MODULATION IN ONCOLYTIC THERAPY - The invention provides methods for treating tumours, such as solid tumours, in a host. The methods may involve infecting the tumour with an amount of one or more strains of oncolytic virus. The virus will generally be selected to be effective to cause a lytic infection of tumour cells within the tumour. In various embodiments, the host neutrophil response to the lytic infection may be modulated, so that during the course of the lytic infection, the host has an initial neutrophil response and a secondary neutrophil response, these two responses being different in some material respect. For example, the secondary neutrophil response may mediate a greater degree of apoptotic killing of tumour cells than does the initial neutrophil response. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20100086522 | DISPARATE SUICIDE CARRIER CELLS FOR TUMOR TARGETING OF PROMISCUOUS ONCOLYTIC VIRUSES - The invention provides compositions and methods for treating neoplastic disease, such as cancer, with an oncolytic virus, such as VSV. A carrier cell is used to target a diseased tissue, and to cloak the oncolytic virus from surveillance by the subject's immune system during a targeting interval. Following delivery of the virus to the target tissue, the lysis of the carrier cell, and of the target cell, by the oncolytic virus, promotes an adaptive tumouricidal immune response. A wide variety of disparate carrier cells may be used, in conjunction with a promiscuous oncolytic virus having broad tropism, in an approach which facilitates successive treatments in which a new carrier will not be susceptible to an adaptive immune response mounted against previously used carriers. The promiscuity of the virus also facilitates lysis of carrier cells and target cells that are allogenic or xenogenic. The lytic phase of the carrier cell infection is staged so that the carrier is administered in an eclipse phase, and lysis follows the conclusion of the therapeutic targeting interval. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20090081195 | Inhibitors of Ste20-like Kinase (SLK) and Methods of Modulating Cell Cycle Progression and Cell Motility - The invention provides inhibitors of Ste20-like kinase (SLK inhibitors). The inhibitors may be employed to modulate proliferation of cells, including tumor and cancer cells. The inhibitors also may be employed to inhibit motility or migration of cells, including cancer and tumor cells. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090074730 | NOVEL STEM CELLS, NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND PROTEINS THEREFROM - The present invention provides novel stem cells, nucleotide sequences and proteins therefrom. More specifically, the present invention provides Pax7+/Myf5− stem cells and methods for identifying and isolating them. Also provided is a MEGF10 nucleotide sequence and protein. | 03-19-2009 |
