2019
Modelling bistable tumour population dynamics to design effective treatment strategies
Akhmetzhanov A, Kim J, Sullivan R, Beckman R, Tamayo P, Yeang C. Modelling bistable tumour population dynamics to design effective treatment strategies. Journal Of Theoretical Biology 2019, 474: 88-102. PMID: 31077681, PMCID: PMC9534689, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.05.005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDrug resistanceHeterogeneous tumorsTumor cellsTreatment strategiesDevelopment of optimal therapeutic strategiesEffects of targeted drugsBRAF-mutant melanomaProcess of tumor growthOptimal therapeutic strategyDrug resistance characteristicsHeterogeneous tumor cellsReverse drug resistanceActivated alternative pathwayEmergence of resistanceCancer treatment modalityEffective treatment strategiesDesigning effective treatment strategiesDrug holidayBRAF inhibitorsPeriodate treatmentDrug regimensTreatment modalitiesGenetic alterationsTumor growthDrug sensitivity
2017
Decomposing Oncogenic Transcriptional Signatures to Generate Maps of Divergent Cellular States
Kim J, Abudayyeh O, Yeerna H, Yeang C, Stewart M, Jenkins R, Kitajima S, Konieczkowski D, Medetgul-Ernar K, Cavazos T, Mah C, Ting S, Van Allen E, Cohen O, Mcdermott J, Damato E, Aguirre A, Liang J, Liberzon A, Alexe G, Doench J, Ghandi M, Vazquez F, Weir B, Tsherniak A, Subramanian A, Meneses-Cime K, Park J, Clemons P, Garraway L, Thomas D, Boehm J, Barbie D, Hahn W, Mesirov J, Tamayo P. Decomposing Oncogenic Transcriptional Signatures to Generate Maps of Divergent Cellular States. Cell Systems 2017, 5: 105-118.e9. PMID: 28837809, PMCID: PMC5639711, DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.08.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCellular statesActivated downstream of RasDownstream of RasGenomic hallmarksIndividual tumor samplesCancer genomesRas pathwayPrecision medicine paradigmPharmacological perturbationsGenetic alterationsFunctional consequencesTranscriptional signatureSystematic sequenceReference mapEffective disease modelsOncogenic alterationsRasComplex landscapeTumor samplesDisease modelsTherapeutic strategiesMedicine paradigmGenomeAlterationsFunctional state