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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
The University of North Carolina AT Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Xiaodong Wang, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Dehui Zhang, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Dmitri Kireev, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Henry Shelton Earp, III, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Abstract
This invention is in the area of improved therapeutic combinations for and methods of treating selected cancers using selected pyrimidine compounds having pan-TAM or Mer/Axl dual receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitory activity in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors. In one aspect, an improved treatment for select cancers is disclosed using selected pyrimidine compounds described herein in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, for example, a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA4) inhibitor, a programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) inhibitor, or a programmed death-ligand 1 (PDL-1) inhibitor, or combination thereof.