Precision cancer medicine are developed with artificial intelligence methods

IMAGE: This is Ion Petre, Professor of Computer Science at Abo Akademi University. The ongoing research on artificial intelligence methods for precision cancer medicine at the Computational Biomodeling (Combio) Laboratory of Åbo Akademi University and Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) got a major boost with renewed funding from Business Finland. The concept of this project is that a patient's own molecular data can be used to identify, with the use of artificial intelligence methods, the best combinatorial multi-drug therapy for that patient. Network modelling plays a major role in this line of work, integrating genome-scale patient data into detailed interaction networks, that can be analysed by Combio's recently developed algorithms to identify combinations of drugs and inhibitors that are likely to be therapeutically effective. The project focuses on individual patients with the goal to dynamically adapt their therapeutical strategies to avoid the onset of drug resistance.