Highlights from AACR2022

After two consecutive years of virtually holding the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the conference returned to an in-person format, while retaining a hybrid option for those who prefer to join virtually.

A multi-scale analysis and visualization platform for cancer data – deriving tumor microenvironment behavior from pathology and transcriptomics

Abstract: Heterogeneity is a hallmark of cancer and perhaps one of the most important features associated with resistance to therapies and likelihood of recurrence and/or metastasis. Genomic instability contributes to genetic diversity, which leads to high levels of intratumoural heterogeneity.…

Using systems medicine for comprehensive metabolic profiling of tumors: how tumor metabolism shapes prognosis and response to chemotherapy

Abstract: Background: Metabolic disfunction is one of the hallmarks of cancer, and metabolism-based therapies are a key class of chemotherapeutics. Despite this, there has previously been no systematic way to identify metabolism-based targets for therapeutic intervention. This is especially concerning…

Profiling the metabolism of pancreatic adenocarcinoma using a systems medicine-based approach reveals insights into tumor biology, prognosis, and new therapeutic strategies

Abstract: Background: One of the hallmarks of cancer is metabolic dysregulation that has been therapeutically targeted with metabolism-based therapies, an important class of chemotherapeutics. However, there has previously been no systematic way to identify key targets for metabolism-based therapeutic interventions.…

Spatio-temporal modeling of the tumor microenvironment for prediction of patient-specific response to chemotherapy

Abstract: Tumor heterogeneity, understood as the intrinsic (e.g., mutations, dysregulation, metabolic reprogramming) and extrinsic (e.g., nutrient/drug perfusion, interactions with surrounding tissues and the tumor microenvironment (TME)) to the cells that constitute the tumor, drives the variability of response to neoadjuvant…