DR-047 Characterizing mutational profiles of anti-cancer drugs

Anticancer drugs can (in)directly interfere with DNA and thereby potentially generate a characteristic pattern of somatic mutations (mutational signature). Identifying treatment-specific mutational signatures in a cancer genome will not only improve the mechanistic understanding of the mutational processes of the drug itself, but will also delineate the proportion of the mutational side effects. This research seeks to characterize the mutational patterns that are generated by anticancer drugs and tries to advance our understanding of the mutational signatures with unknown etiology.

Edwin Cuppen UMC Utrecht the Netherlands