Modeling combination therapies in patient cohorts and cell cultures using correlated drug action

Adith S. Arun, Sung Cheol Kim, Mehmet Eren Ahsen, Gustavo Stolovitzky

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Abstract

Characterizing the effect of combination therapies is vital for treating diseases like cancer. We introduce correlated drug action (CDA), a baseline model for the study of drug combinations in both cell cultures and patient populations, which assumes that the efficacy of drugs in a combination may be correlated. We apply temporal CDA (tCDA) to clinical trial data, and demonstrate the utility of this approach in identifying possible synergistic combinations and others that can be explained in terms of monotherapies. Using MCF7 cell line data, we assess combinations with dose CDA (dCDA), a model that generalizes other proposed models (e.g., Bliss response-additivity, the dose equivalence principle), and introduce Excess over CDA (EOCDA), a new metric for identifying possible synergistic combinations in cell culture.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number108905
JournaliScience
Volume27
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 15 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Applied computing
  • Computational chemistry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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