Atopic dermatitis (eczema): who works on it

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• All targets
• JAK 7
• IL-4 1
• IL-13 2
• STAT3 1
• MAPK 0
• TNF 0
• PDE4 1
• TSLP 0
• NLRP3 0
• PPAR 0
• IL-6 0
• NRF2 0
• AKT 0
• FOXP3 0
• GLP-1 0
• HMGB1 0
• JNK 0
• STING 1
• CTLA-4 1
• ERK 0
• HSP90 0
• IL-1 0
• IL-17 0
• mTOR 0
• PI3K 0
• TYK2 0
• YAP 0
• CD19 0
• CTNNB1 0
• FAK 0
• PD-1 0
• TLR4 0
• AMPK 0
• BCL-2 0
• CD38 0
• COX-2 0
• CXCR4 0
• DPP-4 0
• EGFR 0
• FTO 0
• G6PD 0
• HIF-1 0
• IL-15 0
• IL-23 0
• MEK 0
• PD-L1 0
• PINK1 0
• PTEN 0
• RANKL 0

10 of 10+ institutions, ordered by recent publications and open trials. This is not a ranking of quality.

Funded research projects that name this disease in their title, terms or summary and have not ended yet: who is funded, where, how much and until when. Organisations only; the funder's page has the details.

• NIH NINDS · RF1

  The peripheral mechanisms underlying mechanical itch

  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor· Ann Arbor, United States· US$1,397,313 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2029

• NIH NIAMS · R01

  Mechanisms of cAMP-dependent regulation of melanosome pH

  Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ· New York, United States· US$551,110 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NIAMS · R01

  Regulation of epidermal differentiation via delamination and oriented cell divisions

  Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill· Chapel Hill, United States· US$469,412 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jun 2031

• NIH NCCIH · R44

  AB-101: A Multi-Target Botanical Hydrogel for Combating Antimicrobial Resistance in Atopic Dermatitis

  Alphyn Biologics, Inc.· Annapolis, United States· US$1,100,000 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2028

• NIH NIAMS · R21

  Opioids promote wound healing in vesicant induced skin injury

  Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences· Newark, United States· US$431,750 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2028

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

  CUtibacterium acnes metabolic engineering for Therapeutic Indole in situ delivery in atopic dermatitis SKIN (CUTISKIN)

  Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine· London, United Kingdom· EU contribution €276,188· until Aug 2029

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC-POC

  Positive allosteric modulators of the PD-1•PD-L1 interaction as a new mode of therapeutic intervention for autoimmune diseases: preclinical proof of concept in humanized mice (PAMinMICE)

  Vib Vzw· Zwijnaarde - Gent, Belgium· EU contribution €150,000· until Feb 2027

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC-POC

  Overcoming limits for pre-clinical small volume liquid delivery into skin and inflammation quantification (Lab-In-Skin)

  Universiteit Twente· Enschede, Netherlands· EU contribution €150,000· until Dec 2026

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Role of prenatal stress-induced fetal neuro-immune rewiring in susceptibility to develop pediatric eczema (PRENATALL)

  Institut National de la Sante Et de la Recherche Medicale· Paris, France· EU contribution €2,857,135· until Jan 2029

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Spatio-temporal integration of skin inflammation (4D-SkINFLAM)

  Deutsches Rheuma Forschungszentrumberlin· Berlin, Germany· EU contribution €2,499,188· until Sept 2028

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

10 of 200 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$119.5m + €12.5m.

Sources: NIH RePORTER (U.S. National Institutes of Health, public domain) and CORDIS (European Commission, CC BY 4.0). Changes: filtered by disease, organisations matched to ROR.

Trials whose registry record says individual participant data (IPD) will be shared.

No trial in this view states that it shares participant data.

Find publications on this disease by a MeSH method term, for example a sequencing or imaging method.

• Single-Cell Analysis 17
• Organoids 2
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 26
• Gene Expression Profiling 43
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 3
• Whole Genome Sequencing 2
• Exome Sequencing 3
• Proteomics 19
• Metabolomics 11
• Mass Spectrometry 1
• Flow Cytometry 7
• Immunohistochemistry 6
• Positron-Emission Tomography 1
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2
• Machine Learning 20
• Cohort Studies 65
• Genome-Wide Association Study 28

• Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Antibiotic Resistance Heterogeneity and Metabolic Signatures of Cutibacterium acnes in Atopic Dermatitis.

  Curr Microbiol, Sept 2026

• Strain-Level Differences of Bifidobacterium breve in the Gut Microbiome between Infants with and without Atopic Dermatitis: Insights from Genome Analysis and Immune Assays.

  J Microbiol Biotechnol, Nov 2025

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