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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2023

Using quantitative systems pharmacology modeling to optimize combination therapy of anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor and T cell engager.

Samira Anbari, Hanwen Wang, Yu Zhang, Jun Wang, Minu Pilvankar, Masoud Nickaeen, Steven Hansel, Aleksander S Popel

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  2. Mechanistic learning to predict and understand minimal residual disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Clinical Pharmacology of Cytokine Release Syndrome with T-Cell-Engaging Bispecific Antibodies: Current Insights and Drug Development Strategies.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  7. Virtual patient analysis identifies strategies to improve the performance of predictive biomarkers for PD-1 blockade.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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8 authors.

Samira AnbariDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Hanwen WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Yu ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Jun WangBiotherapeutics Discovery Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield, CT, United States.
Minu PilvankarBiotherapeutics Discovery Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield, CT, United States.
Masoud NickaeenBiotherapeutics Discovery Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield, CT, United States.
Steven HanselBiotherapeutics Discovery Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield, CT, United States.
Aleksander S PopelDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Funding

Predictive experiment-based multiscale models of the tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy in breast cancerR01CA138264 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI POPEL, ALEKSANDER S. · 2009 to 2023
$8.1M
Integrating bioinformatics into multiscale models for hepatocellular carcinomaU01CA212007 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI EWALD, ANDREW JOSEF, FERTIG, ELANA · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA138264NCI NIH HHS U01 CA212007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although immune checkpoint blockade therapies have shown evidence of clinical effectiveness in many types of cancer, the outcome of clinical trials shows that very few patients with colorectal cancer benefit from treatments with checkpoint inhibitors. Bispecific T cell engagers (TCEs) are gaining popularity because they can improve patients' immunological responses by promoting T cell activation. The possibility of combining TCEs with checkpoint inhibitors to increase tumor response and patient survival has been highlighted by preclinical and clinical outcomes. However, identifying predictive biomarkers and optimal dose regimens for individual patients to benefit from combination therapy remains one of the main challenges. In this article, we describe a modular quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) platform for immuno-oncology that includes specific processes of immune-cancer cell interactions and was created based on published data on colorectal cancer. We generated a virtual patient cohort with the model to conduct

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bispecific T cell engagerdose optimizationimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmune-oncologyquantitative systems pharmacology (QSP)virtual clinical trial

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PMID37408756
PMCPMC10318535

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