Combination therapy offers hope for AML patients facing drug resistance

Uncertainty and model limitations are critical in safety assessment. There is clearly greater potential for animal or human harm from an incorrect safety assessment than from making the wrong molecule in early discovery, although uncertainty matters in both contexts. It is important to distinguish different types of uncertainty. Aleatoric uncertainty reflects irreducible randomness in a task, while epistemic uncertainty is model-related, such as hallucinations or lack of knowledge. For LLM systems, we use multiple methods to measure consistency and we have built fact-checking approaches in which a separate LLM independently verifies the primary engine's outputs. For QSAR models, including our SAR work around seizure liability, we can use statistical metrics such as confidence intervals to quantify and communicate uncertainty. Understanding that uncertainty exists and communicating it in both safety and discovery is critical. Uncertainty metrics tell us where potential blind spots may exist in our modelling allowing us to take action to improve over time. This applies to both safety and discovery. The aim is not to pretend AI removes uncertainty, but to make uncertainty visible so scientists can make better-informed decisions. Download the Full PDF to Revisit James McDonagh's Insights on AI in Drug Safety Discovery

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One of the main reasons why compounds fail is that they actually don't work in the patients they are tested in. We may have picked the wrong target since although we've actually created a molecule that, for example, inhibits the activity of the protein in the disease, it may actually turn out that over activity of that e protein isn't as important as we thought it was in that disease. The other reasons molecules fail now is primarily unexpected toxicity. You could take a molecule all the way through to phase 3 trials – the biggest trials in patients – and suddenly find that in your long-term, two-year carcinogenicity studies in animals, that you've got something that is quite cancer-provoking, so you have to stop development. Those are the two reasons: efficacy and toxicity. Somehow, we've got to find a way of trying to increase the chances of success or making the process less costly and leaner.

This is a win for the field. Until now, we have been focused on immune therapies that might make tumors more vulnerable to the body's immune system, and on finding new chemotherapy combinations that kill cancer cells. This new treatment has given us a new focus, and I think it will spur a lot of scientific discovery over the next few years. There have only been a handful of KRAS researchers and their relevance to therapy was always questioned. That is about to change. The most important next step for the field is to better understand the biology of cancer. We know that many pancreatic tumors will eventually become resistant to daraxonrasib, and we need to understand how this happens. We also need to identify additional genetic pathways and treatments that can target them. That's how we will turn pancreas cancer from a deadly, deadly cancer into something we can manage-and one day, even cure.

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