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COR-1: Publication: WO 96/04912
US Patent: 5,849,740
Granted 15th December 1998
EPO: Pending

Description

Use of cortisol inhibitors (ketoconazole and its derivatives) for treating Type 2 Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome.

Cortendo’s first patent, specifically targeting the therapeutic use of ketoconazole and derivatives


COR-1 US-2: US Patent: 6,166,017
Granted 26th December 2000.

Description:

Use of cortisol inhibitors for treating Type 2 Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome.

An extension of COR-1 protecting all current and future compounds acting at any point on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to down-regulate cortisol effects in order to treat Type 2 Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome


COR-2: Publication: WO 96/38179
US Patent: Approved, Not yet issued
EPO: Pending

Description:

Use of cortisol agonists as a diagnostic tool.

This patent application aims to protect all current and future compounds acting at any point along the HPA axis with a cortisol-like effect as a basis for a simple test to find patients in the early stages of metabolic disease


COR-3: Publication: WO 98/36770
US Patent: 6,247,582
EPO: Pending

Description

Combination of cortisol synthesis inhibitors and growth hormone.

This patent application aims to protect the use of all current and future cortisol inhibitors acting at any point along the HPA axis to down-regulate cortisol effects in combination with growth hormone to treat Type 2 Diabetes/ Metabolic Syndrome.
This is an extended therapeutic concept which reflects the disturbances in growth hormone that can occur in these disease states.


COR-4: Publication: WO 01/01971

Description

Use of cortisol synthesis inhibitors for treating heart failure.

This patent application aims to protect the use of all current and future cortisol inhibitors acting at any point along the HPA axis to down-regulate cortisol effects in the treatment of heart failure arising from all causes.


COR-5: Publication: WO 01/52833

Description:

Pharmaceutical formulations for the delivery of cortisol synthesis inhibitors.

This patent application aims to protect the pharmaceutical formulations designed to deliver cortisol synthesis inhibitors to coincide with the normal diurnal secretion profile of cortisol.


COR-8 Application: GB 0118299.7
filed on 26th July 2001.

Description:

Use of first ketoconazole derivative in a pharmaceutical formulation for treating Type 2 Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome.

This patent application aims to protect the use of an enantiomer of ketoconazole in a pharmaceutical formulation designed to deliver cortisol synthesis inhibitors to coincide with the normal diurnal secretion profile of cortisol


COR-9 Application: GB 0118300.3
filed on 26th July 2001.

Description:

Use of second ketoconazole derivative in a pharmaceutical formulation for treating Type 2 Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome.

This patent application aims to protect the use
of a second enantiomer of ketoconazole in a
pharmaceutical formulation designed to deliver
cortisol synthesis inhibitors to coincide with the
normal diurnal secretion profile of cortisol.