HGGT：Heterogeneous Gated Graph Transformer for Predicting Clinical Trial Success

Clinical trials are critical milestones in the drug development pipeline, yet their high failure rates and substantial costs underscore the need for robust predictive models. This study introduces a Heterogeneous Gated Graph Transformer (HGGT) model tailored to predict clinical trial success. Unlike existing methods that typically model trial-related entities in isolation or with homogeneous graphs, HGGT explicitly models the rich heterogeneous relationships among trials, diseases, drugs, genes, targets, abstracts, and eligibility criteria through a gated graph transformer architecture, which dynamically learns and weights multi-type relational interactions to capture complex biological and