Bladder cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• HER2 47
• PD-1 18
• PD-L1 10
• FGFR 10
• PI3K 1
• TP53 1
• AKT 0
• mTOR 0
• STAT3 0
• MAPK 0
• PPAR 0
• CTNNB1 0
• TROP2 1
• EGFR 0
• ERK 0
• MYC 0
• AMPK 0
• CTLA-4 1
• PTEN 0
• VEGF 4
• STING 0
• GPX4 0
• MMP-9 0
• BCL-2 0
• YAP 0
• IL-6 0
• JAK 0
• NRF2 0
• PSMA 1
• AR 0
• B7-H3 0
• CDK4/6 1
• HIF-1 0
• HSP90 0
• IL-15 1
• JNK 0
• PARP 0
• ALK 0
• ARID1A 2
• BRCA1 1
• COX-2 0
• HDAC 1
• IDH 1
• KRAS 0
• LAG-3 0
• METTL3 1
• PIK3CA 0
• PKM2 0
• SGLT2 0
• TERT 0
• AXL 0
• BRAF 1
• BRCA2 1
• EZH2 0
• FAK 0
• FTO 0
• GLP-1 0
• HMGB1 0
• IDO1 0
• MDM2 0

2 of 2+ 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.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Deciphering the COMPASS that guides cancer

  Universite Libre de Bruxelles· Bruxelles, Belgium· EU contribution €2,000,000· until Sept 2030

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

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

  Epigenetics of Bladder Cancer Evolution. (Epi-BCE)

  Idryma Iatroviologikon Ereunon Akademias Athinon· Athina, Greece· EU contribution €197,264· until Mar 2027· 2 countries

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

  Development of Metastatic Organ-on-a-Chip for modelling the role of sex steroids in Bladder cancer metastasis to bone (DeMOBilise)

  University of Limerick· Limerick, Ireland· EU contribution €328,495· until Aug 2028· 2 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-JU-RIA

  Biomarker Research and Evaluation for Clinical Implementation and Supporting Systems Enhancement (BRECISE)

  South East Technological University· Waterford, Ireland· EU contribution €13,615,935· until Dec 2029· 14 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-EIC-ACC

  Immune Photo-Activated Cancer Therapy for the Treatment of Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer (UTUC) and other solid tumours (IMPACT)

  Impact Biotech Ltd· Ness Tziona, Israel· EU contribution €2,498,731· until Nov 2026

5 of 9 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: €36.8m.

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.

Terminated, withdrawn and suspended trials with the reason the sponsor gave in the registry, quoted word for word.

• Terminated

  Gemcitabine/Cisplatin Plus Cemiplimab With or Without Fianlimab in Localized Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (NeoSTOP-IT)

  NCT06571708· Columbia University· Updated 3 Nov 2026

  “Change in standard of care treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

• Terminated

  An Umbrella Study to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Various Monotherapy or Combination Therapies in Neoadjuvant Urothelial Carcinoma

  NCT04586244· Incyte Corporation· Updated 30 Oct 2025

  “Business Decision. No safety concerns contributed to this decision.”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• An Umbrella Study to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Various Monotherapy or Combination Therapies in Neoadjuvant Urothelial Carcinoma

  NCT04586244· Incyte Corporation· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 23
• Organoids 11
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 15
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 14
• Gene Expression Profiling 78
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 4
• Whole Genome Sequencing 7
• Exome Sequencing 3
• Proteomics 27
• Metabolomics 15
• Mass Spectrometry 4
• Flow Cytometry 17
• Immunohistochemistry 94
• Liquid Biopsy 23
• Circulating Tumor DNA 33
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 76
• Positron-Emission Tomography 10
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 40
• Machine Learning 44
• Deep Learning 24
• Cohort Studies 77
• Genome-Wide Association Study 18

• Urinary Metabolomics in Bladder Cancer: A Scoping Review of Current Evidence and Translation Implications.

  Int J Mol Sci, Oct 2026

• A systematic DoE approach for optimizing urinary LC-HRMS metabolomics: enhancing reliability in bladder cancer profiling.

  Anal Bioanal Chem, Jul 2026

• Isolation of the new polyketide (-)-R-talaropinophiloic acid guided by an integrated metabolomics-dereplication approach.

  World J Microbiol Biotechnol, Jul 2026

• Evaluation of FASP for Mass Spectrometry-Based Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis of Urine Samples.

  J Proteome Res, Jun 2026

• FGFR3 oncogenic activation drives oxidative metabolic reprogramming in bladder cancer: a systems metabolomics approach.

  Commun Biol, May 2026

• Spatial multiomics profiling reveals ZFP36-mediated immunometabolic reprogramming in bladder cancer.

  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Apr 2026

• Plasma metabolomic profiling identifies a metabolic signature for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer independent of hematuria.

  Biol Direct, Apr 2026

• Serum Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer: NMR Metabolomics for Identification and Monitoring during Platinum-Based Therapy.

  Oncol Res, Mar 2026

• Urinary metabolomics identifies lactate as a biomarker for bladder cancer detection and progression.

  Mol Omics, Mar 2026

• [Analysis of urine biomarkers in urothelial carcinoma based on untargeted metabolomics].

  Se Pu, Mar 2026

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