Modeling tumor clonal evolution for drug combinations design

B Zhao, MT Hemann, DA Lauffenburger - Trends in cancer, 2016 - cell.com
Cancer is a clonal evolutionary process. This presents challenges for effective therapeutic
intervention, given the constant selective pressure toward drug resistance. Mathematical …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and quantifying heterogeneity in high content analysis: application of heterogeneity indices to drug discovery

AH Gough, N Chen, TY Shun, TR Lezon, RC Boltz… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
One of the greatest challenges in biomedical research, drug discovery and diagnostics is
understanding how seemingly identical cells can respond differently to perturbagens …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Navigating the challenge of tumor heterogeneity in cancer therapy

C Fedele, RW Tothill, GA McArthur - Cancer discovery, 2014 - AACR
The future of cancer treatment lies in personalized strategies designed to specifically target
tumorigenic cell populations present in an individual. Although recent advances in directed …

Exploiting vulnerabilities in cancer signalling networks to combat targeted therapy resistance

PT Harrison, PH Huang - Essays in biochemistry, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Drug resistance remains one of the greatest challenges facing precision oncology today.
Despite the vast array of resistance mechanisms that cancer cells employ to subvert the …

[HTML][HTML] Novel computational method for predicting polytherapy switching strategies to overcome tumor heterogeneity and evolution

VD Jonsson, CM Blakely, L Lin, S Asthana, N Matni… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The success of targeted cancer therapy is limited by drug resistance that can result from
tumor genetic heterogeneity. The current approach to address resistance typically involves …

Efficacy and safety of anticancer drug combinations: a meta-analysis of randomized trials with a focus on immunotherapeutics and gene-targeted compounds

DL Jardim, D De Melo Gagliato, M Nikanjam… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Hundreds of trials are being conducted to evaluate combination of newer targeted drugs as
well as immunotherapy. Our aim was to compare efficacy and safety of combination versus …

Exploiting receptor tyrosine kinase co-activation for cancer therapy

AC Tan, S Vyse, PH Huang - Drug discovery today, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Description of the key general principles of RTK co-activation in
cancer.•Hierarchical RTK networks maintain robust signalling and drive drug resistance.• …

[HTML][HTML] Establishment of a primary renal lymphoma model and its clinical relevance

X Li, M Deng, C Zhang, L Luo, H Qian - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Extranodal dissemination is an important feature of aggressive B-cell lymphoma. Owing to
the lack of available animal models, the study on extranodal dissemination of lymphoma is …

A perspective on implementing a quantitative systems pharmacology platform for drug discovery and the advancement of personalized medicine

AM Stern, ME Schurdak, I Bahar… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Drug candidates exhibiting well-defined pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles
that are otherwise safe often fail to demonstrate proof-of-concept in phase II and III trials …