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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1998
Nnochiri N. Ekwuribe, Cary, NC (US);
Balasingam Rhadakrishnan, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Christopher H. Price, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Wes Anderson, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Aslam M. Ansari, Durham, NC (US);
Nobex Corporation, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to amphiphilic drug-oligomer conjugates capable of traversing the blood-brain barrier (“BBB”) and to methods of making and using such conjugates. An amphiphilic drug-oligomer conjugates comprise a therapeutic compound conjugated to an oligomer, wherein the oligomer comprises a lipophilic moiety coupled to a hydrophilic moiety. The conjugates of the invention further comprise therapeutic agents such as proteins, peptides, nucleosides, nucleotides, antiviral agents, antineoplastic agents, antibiotics, etc., and prodrugs, precursors, derivatives and intermediates thereof, chemically coupled to amphiphilic oligomers.