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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2021
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Trey Ideker, San Diego, CA (US);
Jisoo Park, San Diego, CA (US);
Brent Kuenzi, San Diego, CA (US);
Jianzhu MA, West Lafayette, IN (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
Most drugs entering clinical trials fail, often related to an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms governing drug response. Machine learning techniques hold immense promise for better drug response predictions, but most have not reached clinical practice due to their lack of interpretability and their focus on monotherapies. Systems and methods described herein relate to DrugCell, an interpretable deep learning model of human cancer cells trained on the responses of 1,235 tumor cell lines to 684 drugs. Tumor genotypes induce states on cellular subsystems which are integrated with drug structure to predict response to therapy and, simultaneously, learn biological mechanisms underlying the drug response. DrugCell predictions are accurate in cell lines and also stratify clinical outcomes. Analysis of DrugCell mechanisms leads directly to design of synergistic drug combinations, which can be validate systematically. DrugCell provides a blueprint for constructing interpretable models for predictive medicine.