NCI Scientists Test 5,000 Drug Combinations
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 12:32
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Susan Holbeck, Ph.D., is a biologist in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis at the National Cancer Institute. Her team spent two years testing all possible combinations of 100 cancer drugs currently approved by the FDA to see if any previously untested combinations are effective in certain cancers. 5,000 drug pairings were tested, totaling 300,000 experiments in all.