articleNature MedicineSep 25, 2024HYBRID OA

A foundation model for clinician-centered drug repurposing

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Abstract

Drug repurposing—identifying new therapeutic uses for approved drugs—is often a serendipitous and opportunistic endeavour to expand the use of drugs for new diseases. The clinical utility of drug-repurposing artificial intelligence (AI) models remains limited because these models focus narrowly on diseases for which some drugs already exist. Here we introduce TxGNN, a graph foundation model for zero-shot drug repurposing, identifying therapeutic candidates even for diseases with limited treatment options or no existing drugs. Trained on a medical knowledge graph, TxGNN uses a graph neural network and metric learning module to rank drugs as potential indications and contraindications for 17,080 diseases. When…

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