Defining principles of combination drug mechanisms of action

JR Pritchard, PM Bruno, LA Gilbert… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Combination chemotherapies have been a mainstay in the treatment of disseminated
malignancies for almost 60 y, yet even successful regimens fail to cure many patients …

Systems pharmacology: defining the interactions of drug combinations

JGC Van Hasselt, R Iyengar - Annual review of pharmacology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The majority of diseases are associated with alterations in multiple molecular pathways and
complex interactions at the cellular and organ levels. Single-target monotherapies therefore …

Addressing genetic tumor heterogeneity through computationally predictive combination therapy

B Zhao, JR Pritchard, DA Lauffenburger, MT Hemann - Cancer discovery, 2014 - AACR
Recent tumor sequencing data suggest an urgent need to develop a methodology to directly
address intratumoral heterogeneity in the design of anticancer treatment regimens. We use …

Looking beyond the cancer cell for effective drug combinations

JR Dry, M Yang, J Saez-Rodriguez - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Combinations of therapies are being actively pursued to expand therapeutic options and
deal with cancer's pervasive resistance to treatment. Research efforts to discover effective …

Approaches to modernize the combination drug development paradigm

D Day, LL Siu - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Recent advances in genomic sequencing and omics-based capabilities are uncovering
tremendous therapeutic opportunities and rapidly transforming the field of cancer medicine …

Mechanisms of drug combinations: interaction and network perspectives

J Jia, F Zhu, X Ma, ZW Cao, YX Li… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2009 - nature.com
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying synergistic, potentiative and
antagonistic effects of drug combinations could facilitate the discovery of novel efficacious …

Community assessment to advance computational prediction of cancer drug combinations in a pharmacogenomic screen

MP Menden, D Wang, MJ Mason, B Szalai… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The effectiveness of most cancer targeted therapies is short-lived. Tumors often develop
resistance that might be overcome with drug combinations. However, the number of possible …

Understanding resistance to combination chemotherapy

JR Pritchard, DA Lauffenburger, MT Hemann - Drug Resistance Updates, 2012 - Elsevier
The current clinical application of combination chemotherapy is guided by a historically
successful set of practices that were developed by basic and clinical researchers 50–60 …

A cancer drug atlas enables synergistic targeting of independent drug vulnerabilities

RS Narayan, P Molenaar, J Teng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Personalized cancer treatments using combinations of drugs with a synergistic effect is
attractive but proves to be highly challenging. Here we present an approach to uncover the …

Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …