Who owns the IP
The organizations most actively patenting around this compound, ranked by referenced patent volume.
| # | Assignee | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adcock Ingram Holdings Ltd | 3 |
| 2 | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | 3 |
| 3 | Melbourne Institute of Technology | 2 |
| 4 | Academia Sinica | 1 |
| 5 | Access to Advanced Health Institute | 1 |
| 6 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 1 |
| 7 | Bekaert NV SA | 1 |
| 8 | Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College | 1 |
| 9 | Colorado State University System | 1 |
| 10 | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | 1 |
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Visit CyprisWhere innovation is concentrated
Patent classifications ranked by volume reveal the technical domains with the most active filing.
| # | Code | Area | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G01N | Investigating / analysing materials | 47 |
| 2 | A61K | Medicinal preparations | 46 |
| 3 | A61P | Therapeutic activity (drug indications) | 30 |
| 4 | C07H | Sugars and derivatives | 30 |
| 5 | C12N | Microorganisms, enzymes | 18 |
| 6 | C07K | Peptides | 14 |
| 7 | C07C | Acyclic and carbocyclic compounds | 12 |
| 8 | C09K | Materials for misc. applications | 12 |
| 9 | Y02A | Climate change adaptation | 10 |
| 10 | C07D | Heterocyclic compounds | 9 |
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See Cypris in actionRepresentative patents
The filings that best characterise the patent activity around this compound, most-referenced first.
| Title | Year | Assignee |
|---|---|---|
| PSEUDO-AMIDE CORD FACTORS IN THE SERODIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS | 1995 | |
| Mirror amide cord factors and mirror thioester cord factors for diagnosis of tuberculosis | 1995 | |
| Mirror amide cord factors and mirror thioester cord factors for diagnosis of tuberculosis | 1994 | |
| MIRROR AMIDE CORD FACTORS AND MIRROR THIOESTHER CORD FACTORS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS | 1994 |
How research activity has moved
Papers published per year for this compound, over the last decade of indexed records.
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 |
Who's driving the science
The most-published authors working with this compound, alongside their primary affiliations.
| # | Author | Affiliation | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ikuya Yano | Osaka City University | 29 |
| 2 | E. Lederer | Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles | 19 |
| 3 | Nagatoshi Fujiwara | Osaka City University | 17 |
| 4 | Robert L. Hunter | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 16 |
| 5 | Ichiro Azuma | Hokkaido University | 12 |
| 6 | Mayer B. Goren | University of Colorado Denver | 11 |
| 7 | Jean‐Pierre Tenu | Université Paris-Sud | 10 |
| 8 | Jeffrey K. Actor | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 10 |
| 9 | A. Bekierkunst | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 8 |
| 10 | J. Asselineau | Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique | 8 |
Research leaders
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See Cypris in actionThe literature that defines it
The most-cited papers anchoring the scientific record for this compound.
| Title | Year | Cited by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recognition of the mycobacterial glycolipid, trehalose dimycolate, by C-type lectin Mincle | 2009 | 783 | Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology |
| Role of the Major Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Cell Wall Biogenesis | 1997 | 736 | Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology |
| Caseation of human tuberculosis granulomas correlates with elevated host lipid metabolism | 2010 | 511 | Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology |
| SQ109 Targets MmpL3, a Membrane Transporter of Trehalose Monomycolate Involved in Mycolic Acid Donation to the Cell Wall Core of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 2012 | 509 | Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology |
| Cutting Edge: Mincle Is Essential for Recognition and Adjuvanticity of the Mycobacterial Cord Factor and its Synthetic Analog Trehalose-Dibehenate | 2010 | 491 | T-cell and B-cell Immunology |
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