Functional optical imaging of primary human tumor organoids: development of a personalized drug screen

AJ Walsh, RS Cook, MC Skala - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
Primary tumor organoids are a robust model of individual human cancers and present a
unique platform for patient-specific drug testing. Optical imaging is uniquely suited to assess …

Quantitative optical imaging of primary tumor organoid metabolism predicts drug response in breast cancer

AJ Walsh, RS Cook, ME Sanders, L Aurisicchio… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
There is a need for technologies to predict the efficacy of cancer treatment in individual
patients. Here, we show that optical metabolic imaging of organoids derived from primary …

[HTML][HTML] Optical imaging of drug-induced metabolism changes in murine and human pancreatic cancer organoids reveals heterogeneous drug response

AJ Walsh, JA Castellanos, NS Nagathihalli… - Pancreas, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Three-dimensional organoids derived from primary pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinomas are an attractive platform for testing potential anticancer drugs on patient …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic heterogeneity in patient tumor-derived organoids by primary site and drug treatment

JT Sharick, CM Walsh, CM Sprackling, CA Pasch… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
New tools are needed to match cancer patients with effective treatments. Patient-derived
organoids offer a high-throughput platform to personalize treatments and discover novel …

Volumetric growth tracking of patient-derived cancer organoids using optical coherence tomography

DA Gil, DA Deming, MC Skala - Biomedical Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Patient-derived cancer organoids (PCOs) are in vitro organotypic models that reflect in vivo
drug response, thus PCOs are an accessible model for cancer drug screening in a clinically …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular metabolic heterogeneity in vivo is recapitulated in tumor organoids

JT Sharick, JJ Jeffery, MR Karim, CM Walsh, K Esbona… - Neoplasia, 2019 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous populations within a tumor have varying metabolic profiles, which can
muddle the interpretation of bulk tumor imaging studies of treatment response. Although …

Multiparametric tumor organoid drug screening using widefield live-cell imaging for bulk and single-organoid analysis

M Le Compte, EC De La Hoz, S Peeters… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2022 - jove.com
Patient-derived tumor organoids (PDTOs) hold great promise for preclinical and translational
research and predicting the patient therapy response from ex vivo drug screenings …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic imaging of head and neck cancer organoids

AT Shah, TM Heaster, MC Skala - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Head and neck cancer patients suffer from toxicities, morbidities, and mortalities, and these
ailments could be minimized through improved therapies. Drug discovery is a long …

Patient-derived cancer organoid cultures to predict sensitivity to chemotherapy and radiation

CA Pasch, PF Favreau, AE Yueh, CP Babiarz… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Cancer treatment is limited by inaccurate predictors of patient-specific therapeutic
response. Therefore, some patients are exposed to unnecessary side effects and delays in …

[HTML][HTML] Autofluorescence imaging of treatment response in neuroendocrine tumor organoids

AA Gillette, CP Babiarz, AR VanDommelen, CA Pasch… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NET) account for
roughly 60% of all neuroendocrine tumors, and low/intermediate grade human GEP-NETs …