US 12,440,515 B2
Mitochondrial augmentation therapy of brain diseases
Natalie Yivgi Ohana, Haifa (IL); Uriel Halavee, Tel aviv (IL); Shmuel Bukshpan, Ramat Hasharon (IL); Noa Sher, Haifa (IL); and Moriya Blumkin, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Minovia Therapeutics Ltd., Tirat Hacarmel (IL)
Appl. No. 17/254,770
Filed by Minovia Therapeutics Ltd., Tirat Hacarmel (IL)
PCT Filed Jul. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IL2019/050825
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/021538, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/753,936, filed on Nov. 1, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/701,783, filed on Jul. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275599 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61K 35/545 (2015.01); A61K 35/28 (2015.01); A61K 35/33 (2015.01); A61K 35/38 (2015.01); A61K 35/50 (2015.01); A61K 35/51 (2015.01); A61K 40/10 (2025.01); A61K 40/40 (2025.01); A61K 40/41 (2025.01); A61K 45/06 (2006.01); A61P 25/28 (2006.01); A61K 35/12 (2015.01)
CPC A61K 35/545 (2013.01) [A61K 35/28 (2013.01); A61K 35/33 (2013.01); A61K 35/38 (2013.01); A61K 35/50 (2013.01); A61K 35/51 (2013.01); A61K 40/10 (2025.01); A61K 40/40 (2025.01); A61K 40/414 (2025.01); A61K 45/06 (2013.01); A61P 25/28 (2018.01); A61K 2035/124 (2013.01); A61K 2239/31 (2023.05); A61K 2239/38 (2023.05)] 16 Claims
 
1. A method of treating a brain disease, disorder or a symptom thereof in a human patient in need of such treatment comprising administering a pharmaceutical composition to the patient, the pharmaceutical composition comprising about 5×105 to 5×109 human CD34+ stem cells, wherein the human stem cells are enriched with functional human exogenous mitochondria, wherein the brain disease or disorder is not a primary mitochondrial disease or disorder caused by a pathogenic mutation in mitochondrial DNA or by a pathogenic mutation in nuclear DNA encoding a mitochondrial protein; and wherein the disease or disorder is selected from the group consisting of Parkinson Disease (PD), Alzheimer Disease (AD), adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), Huntington Disease (HD), Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), and autism.