{"id":434,"date":"2019-03-05T20:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/?p=434"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T19:19:37","slug":"treat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/treat-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Find Better Ways to Treat Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='fullscreen_slider_1'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='no scaling'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='436,'  data-video_counter='1'  data-autoplay='true'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='4'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_1'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment='scroll'  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-no scaling av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 66.6666666667%;' ><li style='background-position:top center;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Big-Data_Cancer_Opener.jpg' class=' slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class='av-section-color-overlay' style='opacity: 0.2; 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color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 1.4em;\"><strong>Marc Birtwistle<br \/>\n<\/strong>Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style=' margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:30px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no   avia-builder-el-6  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner   inner-border-av-border-thin' style=' width:1100;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div  style='height:1px; margin-top:-50px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:40px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"font-size: 63px; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #af2c23;\">Question 2:<\/span> Can we find better ways to treat cancer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  style='height:25px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:19px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In the medical marketplace, private companies \u2014 IBM for one \u2014 are beginning to pilot \u201cvirtual physician assistants,\u201d computers capable of making recommendations to clinicians, streamlining and improving their decision-making about treating patients for everyday sickness and injury. One day, the models being built by Marc Birtwistle and his Clemson research team may do the same thing for oncologists, or even for industrial scientists developing anti-cancer drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. It\u2019s a ways off, but the basic science he is building may pave the way for such innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The Birtwistle lab combines computational research with experimental methods to better understand the behavior of cancer cells. Their goal: to better predict drug and drug-combination responses, which should result in better treatment therapies in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years ago, simulating a single relevant cell process might have taken a day or so,\u201d Birtwistle explains. \u201cNow, we capture six to seven in a few minutes to an hour.\u201d Working in the petascale \u2014 the benchmark for supercomputing speed: one quadrillion floating-point operations per second \u2014 allows their simulations to span a cross-section of virtual cancer patients while exploring the many uncertainties and combinations of drug regimens.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no way to compare that work to what existed a decade ago, he says. \u201cIt was not even on the radar screen.\u201d But supercomputing technology has made visible what was invisible prior. His group is interested in investigating to what extent computer simulation models can speed up their understanding of the complex problems this disease presents to clinical and industrial researchers. Currently, cancer precision medicine is based on matching genome and DNA data to targeted drugs. This has revolutionized cancer care, but it\u2019s not always successful.<\/p>\n<p>Birtwistle\u2019s work uses genomic data of patients in simulation models that describe relevant biochemical networks where anti-cancer drugs actually work. Such models allow researchers to better understand mechanisms of drug action within the unique complexity of an individual\u2019s tumor (namely brain tumors, though the lab works with a variety of cells and cancers). Those findings might one day be used to create personalized treatment strategies \u2014 by knowing how a drug will act in a patient, how much and how often the drug should be given, and the potential for toxicity, among other factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost cancers will require combination therapy to be controlled,\u201d Birtwistle says. \u201cHowever, there are dozens to hundreds of drugs to choose from, making their combinations \u2014 not to mention questions regarding the order in which to give them, and their dosing \u2014 almost innumerable,\u201d he says. \u201cMy research focuses on building simulation tools that allow us to more comprehensively explore drug combination possibilities, all while accounting for, to the best of our knowledge, the complexity present in an individual\u2019s tumor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eventual goal is twofold, Birtwistle explains. \u201cOne is clinical: precision medicine,\u201d he says. Given a cancer patient, can they make recommendations for successful combination therapies? The second is industrial: Given a new potential anti-cancer drug, what patients should be included in clinical trials, and what existing drugs should be combined to achieve better outcomes?<\/p>\n<p>Current therapeutic approaches can\u2019t comprehensively account for the vast complexity of variables in an individual\u2019s tumor, he says. Without high-performance computer resources such as the Palmetto Cluster, his research goals would be \u201cnext to impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:16px; color:#af2c23; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>PALMETTO FACTS \u2192<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 25px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><strong>2002<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>COMPUTE NODES<\/strong><br \/>\n(i.e., physical computing boxes that contain many compute cores)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 25px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><strong>26,832<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>CORES<\/strong><br \/>\n(i.e., individual processors; the part of a computer that executes programs)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 25px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><strong>1,029<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>TERAFLOPS\/1 PETAFLOP<\/strong><br \/>\nLast benchmarked size of the Palmetto Cluster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.4em;\">A petaflop is the ability of a computer to do one quadrillion floating point operations per second. To match what a 1 petaflop computer system can do in just one second, you&#8217;d have to perform one calculation every second for 31,688,765 years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style=' margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:30px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no   avia-builder-el-18  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner   inner-border-av-border-thin' style=' width:1100;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_half  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_half  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-21  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Big-Data_Cars_Thumbnail.jpg' alt='' title='Big-Data_Cars_Thumbnail' height=\"367\" width=\"550\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin: 60px 0px 25px 0px;\">QUESTION 3 <span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: lighter;\">of 6:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 33px; font-weight: bold; margin: -25px 0px 25px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;\">Will We Be Driving Cars or Will They Be Driving Us?<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-24  avia-builder-el-no-sibling ' ><a href='https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/cars'  class='avia-button   avia-icon_select-yes-right-icon avia-color-red avia-size-large avia-position-left '   ><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >LEARN MORE<\/span><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_right' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue879' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-26  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style=' margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:30px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no   avia-builder-el-27  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner   inner-border-av-border-thin' style=' width:1100;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-28  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-29  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-30  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 25px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\">EXPLORE OTHER QUESTIONS<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 25px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\">\u2193<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-32  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">QUESTION 1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; margin: -12px 0px 12px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;\">Can we feed the world in a healthy sustainable way?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #af2c23;\"><a style=\"color: #af2c23;\" href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/feed-the-world\">Learn More\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-34  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #aaaaaa; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em;\">CURRENTLY EXPLORING QUESTION 2:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #aaaaaa; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; margin: -5px 0px 12px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;\">Can we feed the world in a healthy sustainable way?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-36  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">QUESTION 4:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; margin: -12px 0px 12px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;\">Future of medicine \u2014 man or machine?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #af2c23;\"><a style=\"color: #af2c23;\" href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/medicine\">Learn More\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-38  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">QUESTION 5:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; margin: -12px 0px 12px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;\">Can we save the planet from one of its most damaging pollutants?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #af2c23;\"><a style=\"color: #af2c23;\" href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/pollution\">Learn More\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-40  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #af2c23; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">QUESTION 6:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; 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