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SU2C Machine Learning for Immunotherapy
Convergence Research Team:
Machine Learning for Cancer Immunotherapy

Grant Term: January 2018 – December 2020

The SU2C Machine Learning for Immunotherapy Convergence Research Team is using artificial intelligence to predict molecular pathways and clinical outcomes for cancer patients. These data scientists are working to reconstruct signaling pathways and identify previously unrecognized regulatory mechanisms that contribute to the development of cancer, and their discoveries may provide new approaches for treatment with immunotherapy.

ABOUT THIS TEAM’S RESEARCH

Recent successes in cancer immunotherapy have raised high hopes that an individual’s immune system can be enlisted to fight cancer. These approaches can be expanded to more cancer types and to more patients. However, there are many challenges ahead that will require dramatically new approaches. For example, determining which patients are most likely to benefit from a particular immunotherapy may require integrating diverse types of data (such as lab values or observational data) that are captured in the text of patients’ electronic medical records.

As there are no established methods for the complex challenge of mining these data, this SU2C Machine Learning for Immunotherapy Convergence Research Team is developing innovative solutions integrating deep multi-omic analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing. Current work in breast cancer using a large-scale database of pathology supports search and cohort selection according to patient histology and tissue analysis. Using raw image data for predicting disease progression and early detection, together with developing computational and experimental approaches, will enable scientists to search for new therapeutic strategies for diseases.

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