Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Phenotypic profiling with a living biobank of primary rhabdomyosarcoma unravels disease heterogeneity and AKT sensitivity

  • Gabriele Manzella,
  • Leonie D. Schreck,
  • Willemijn B. Breunis,
  • Jan Molenaar,
  • Hans Merks,
  • Frederic G. Barr,
  • Wenyue Sun,
  • Michaela Römmele,
  • Luduo Zhang,
  • Joelle Tchinda,
  • Quy A. Ngo,
  • Peter Bode,
  • Olivier Delattre,
  • Didier Surdez,
  • Bharat Rekhi,
  • Felix K. Niggli,
  • Beat W. Schäfer,
  • Marco Wachtel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18388-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Patient-specific precision medicine approaches are important for future cancer therapies. Here, the authors show that functional drug profiling with Rhabdomyosarcoma cells isolated from PDX and primary patient tumors uncovers patient-specific vulnerabilities.