Aim: EPO (erythropoietin) is a hormone that stimulates the erythropoiesis and is mainly produced by the kidneys. In the early 1990s among the emerging biotech drugs, the recombinant human EPO (rhEPO) was the best...Aim: EPO (erythropoietin) is a hormone that stimulates the erythropoiesis and is mainly produced by the kidneys. In the early 1990s among the emerging biotech drugs, the recombinant human EPO (rhEPO) was the best-selling product worldwide, reaching nearly three billion dollars annually. The CIM (center of molecular immunology) produced and sold the rhEPO as commercial strategy to recover the investment made in its new facilities. This work summarizes the inventions that protect the innovative products developed by three Cuban institutions, starting from rhEPO, and the industrial property strategy followed by them. Methods: The information was obtained from the United States Patent, Trademark Office (USPTO) database, Patentscope, Espacenet, patent databases of Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Drug Development (CIDEM) and Cuban Industrial Property Office. Conclusions: The manufacturing process of CIM's EPO has its own patent family. From a manufacturing by product an innovative formulation protected by patent was obtained. There is a patent family around the nasal formulation and it continues enlarging. From a biosimilar pharmaceutical innovative products impacting on human health have been obtained.展开更多
There is an urgent need for new antifungal agents to treat or combat fungal infection in humans and plants.Antifungal nucleoside antibiotics are an important family of natural products with distinctive structural feat...There is an urgent need for new antifungal agents to treat or combat fungal infection in humans and plants.Antifungal nucleoside antibiotics are an important family of natural products with distinctive structural features.Understanding their biosynthetic machinery is of great importance for the improvement of antibiotics titers.More importantly,it is a requisite for combinatorial biosynthesis to create hybrid nucleoside antibiotics.We herein focus on findings on the natural and designed biosynthesis of this important family of nucleoside antibiotics.展开更多
文摘Aim: EPO (erythropoietin) is a hormone that stimulates the erythropoiesis and is mainly produced by the kidneys. In the early 1990s among the emerging biotech drugs, the recombinant human EPO (rhEPO) was the best-selling product worldwide, reaching nearly three billion dollars annually. The CIM (center of molecular immunology) produced and sold the rhEPO as commercial strategy to recover the investment made in its new facilities. This work summarizes the inventions that protect the innovative products developed by three Cuban institutions, starting from rhEPO, and the industrial property strategy followed by them. Methods: The information was obtained from the United States Patent, Trademark Office (USPTO) database, Patentscope, Espacenet, patent databases of Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Drug Development (CIDEM) and Cuban Industrial Property Office. Conclusions: The manufacturing process of CIM's EPO has its own patent family. From a manufacturing by product an innovative formulation protected by patent was obtained. There is a patent family around the nasal formulation and it continues enlarging. From a biosimilar pharmaceutical innovative products impacting on human health have been obtained.
基金supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2013CB 734001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31470206 and 31571281)
文摘There is an urgent need for new antifungal agents to treat or combat fungal infection in humans and plants.Antifungal nucleoside antibiotics are an important family of natural products with distinctive structural features.Understanding their biosynthetic machinery is of great importance for the improvement of antibiotics titers.More importantly,it is a requisite for combinatorial biosynthesis to create hybrid nucleoside antibiotics.We herein focus on findings on the natural and designed biosynthesis of this important family of nucleoside antibiotics.