Drug Sensitivity and Drug Repurposing Platform for Cancer Precision Medicine. 2021

Ekene Emmanuel Nweke, and Deepak B Thimiri Govinda Raj
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

One of the critical Global challenges in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 Good Health and Well Being is optimizing drug discovery and translational research for unmet medical need in both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Recently, the WHO reports there has been a shift from communicable diseases to non-communicable diseases with respect to being the leading cause of death globally and particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as South Africa. Hence, there is current drive to establish functional precision medicine program that addresses the unmet medical need using high throughput drug sensitivity and drug repurposing platform. Here, this paper serves as a perspective to showcase the recent development in high throughput drug sensitivity screening platform for the cancer precision medicine. We also elaborate on the benefit and applications of high-throughput drug screening platform for Precision Medicine. From a future perspective, this paper aims to showcase the possibility to integrate existing high-throughput drug sensitivity screening platform with the newly developed platform technologies such as microfluidics based single cell drug screening.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009369 Neoplasms New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms. Benign Neoplasm,Cancer,Malignant Neoplasm,Tumor,Tumors,Benign Neoplasms,Malignancy,Malignant Neoplasms,Neoplasia,Neoplasm,Neoplasms, Benign,Cancers,Malignancies,Neoplasias,Neoplasm, Benign,Neoplasm, Malignant,Neoplasms, Malignant
D004364 Pharmaceutical Preparations Drugs intended for human or veterinary use, presented in their finished dosage form. Included here are materials used in the preparation and/or formulation of the finished dosage form. Drug,Drugs,Pharmaceutical,Pharmaceutical Preparation,Pharmaceutical Product,Pharmaceutic Preparations,Pharmaceutical Products,Pharmaceuticals,Preparations, Pharmaceutical,Preparation, Pharmaceutical,Preparations, Pharmaceutic,Product, Pharmaceutical,Products, Pharmaceutical
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013019 South Africa A republic in southern Africa, the southernmost part of Africa. It has three capitals: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial). Officially the Republic of South Africa since 1960, it was called the Union of South Africa 1910-1960. Republic of South Africa,Union of South Africa
D057285 Precision Medicine Clinical, therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to optimal disease management based on individual variations in a patient's genetic profile. Individualized Medicine,Predictive Medicine,P Health,P-Health,Personalized Medicine,Theranostics,Medicine, Individualized,Medicine, Personalized,Medicine, Precision,Medicine, Predictive,Theranostic
D058492 Drug Repositioning The deliberate and methodical practice of finding new applications for existing drugs. Drug Repurposing,Drug Rescue,Repositioning, Drug,Repurposing, Drug,Rescue, Drug

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