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ArticleCommunications chemistry2026

A network medicine framework for multi-modal data integration in therapeutic target discovery.

Greta Baltušytė, Isaac J D Toleman, James O Jones, Sarah J Welsh, Grant D Stewart, Thomas J Mitchell, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Namshik Han

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Greta BaltušytėMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-9957-4479
Isaac J D TolemanDepartment of Surgery, University of Cambridge, and Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-1121-3863
James O JonesDepartment of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2194-4903
Sarah J WelshDepartment of Surgery, University of Cambridge, and Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.
Grant D StewartDepartment of Surgery, University of Cambridge, and Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.
Thomas J MitchellDepartment of Surgery, University of Cambridge, and Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.
Kourosh Saeb-Parsy *Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, and Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK. ks10014@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0633-3696
Namshik Han *Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. nh417@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7741-6384

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Abstract

The high cost and attrition rate of drug development underscore the need for more effective strategies for therapeutic target discovery. Here, we present a network medicine-based machine learning framework that integrates single-cell transcriptomics, bulk multi-omic profiles, genome-wide CRISPR perturbation screens, and protein-protein interaction networks to systematically prioritise disease-specific targets. Applied to clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the framework successfully recovered established targets and predicted five therapeutic candidates, with subsequent in vitro validation demonstrating that among these, ENO2 inhibition had the strongest anti-tumour effect, followed by LRRK2, a repurposing candidate with phase III Parkinson's disease inhibitors. The proposed approach advances target discovery by moving beyond single-feature, single-modality heuristics to a scalable, machine learning-driven strategy that is generalisable across diseases.

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