Improving response rate
to first-line therapy in HGSOC.

A consortium to predict platinum response in high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

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The stakes

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women die of ovarian cancer every year, worldwide

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of HGSOC patients relapse after platinum

0 months

median survival once platinum resistance sets in

The treatment gap

The problem was never a lack of options. It's that patients have to fail first.

The FDA has cleared real therapies for platinum-refractory ovarian cancer — but every one of them is gated behind the same thing: documented failure on platinum chemotherapy. For the 20–30% of patients whose tumors were never going to respond, that means months of toxicity, disease progression, and lost time before they reach a drug that might have worked from day one. We can identify them upfront.

Every option above starts the clock after the failure. A validated chemo-response predictor moves the decision to day one — before the first wasted cycle.

The solution

A multimodal foundation model.

So we're building one — trained by leading cancer centers on H&E histology, genomics, and clinical data from a pool of 10,000 HGSOC patients, to predict platinum response before the first wasted cycle.

Why scale

Scaling laws haven't reached the clinic — yet.

Language models got predictably better with scale. Real clinical tasks haven't seen that curve yet. There are two ways to scale — more patients, or more modalities per patient. We're scaling both.

Every patient × every modality — H&E, RNA-seq, WES, methylation, proteomics, clinical — scaling both axes toward 10,000.

We reach 10,000 together.
Or we don't.

Founding institutions

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston Children's Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Semmelweis University
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Severance Hospital
Oslo University Hospital
Hungarian Oncology Institute

Worldwide effort

From Boston to Seoul to Melbourne.

Twelve founding institutions across four continents, tied together by one shared cohort.

Evidence

npj Precision Oncology · 2025
doi.org/10.1038/s41698-025-00808-w

Toward 10,000

HGSOC patients enrolled 1,240 / 10,000
H&E whole-slide images 3,800 / 30,000
multimodal cases 680 / 6,000

How we work

Co-authorship by default

Every contributing institution receives co-authorship on flagship papers. Cohort PIs sit on the publications committee.

Data stays with you

Federated-first. We ship the training and evaluation container; slides and clinical data never leave your firewall unless you opt in.

IRB & DTA ready

Template DTA, IRB protocol language, and a HIPAA-compliant pipeline on day one. The legal groundwork is done.

Ways to participate

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Join the consortium

Become a founding partner. Co-develop the foundation model. Co-author the science.

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Add your cohort

Bring your HGSOC patients into the 10,000. More data in, stronger model out. Shared credit, shared model.

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03

Validate locally

Run the model on your cohort. No data leaves your site. We ship the container, you return the metrics.

Run validation →

Team

Zoltan Szallasi, MD

PI

Oz Kilim, PhD

ML & Multimodal Modeling

Zsofia Sztupinszki, MD, PhD

Clinical Oncology

Supported by

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance