Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: who works on it

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• All targets
• BTK 26
• CD19 33
• BCL-2 10
• TP53 3
• CD20 10
• CD22 6
• ABL1 2
• PI3K 1
• NOTCH1 0
• CXCR4 0
• STAT3 0
• CD123 1
• CD38 1
• HMGB1 0
• PD-1 0
• PD-L1 0
• EGFR 0
• HDAC 0
• MDM2 0
• PPAR 0
• TIM-3 0
• AKT 0
• ALK 0
• ATM 0
• BCMA 1
• BDNF 0
• BRAF 0
• BRD4 0
• CD30 0
• CD47 0
• CSF1R 1
• CTNNB1 0
• ERK 0
• FAK 0
• FLT3 0
• IDH 0
• IL-23 0
• IL-4 0
• KMT2A 0
• MAPK 0
• MMP-9 0
• NLRP3 0
• NRAS 0
• PCSK9 0
• PRMT5 0
• TLR4 0
• VEGF 0

6 of 6+ 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 NCI · R01

  Overcoming ovarian cancer chemoresistance by co-targeting senescence and apoptosis

  Harvard University D/B/A Harvard School of Public Health· Boston, United States· US$390,447 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R01

  Rationally directed therapy for CLL

  University of Tx Md Anderson Can Ctr· Houston, United States· US$690,011 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R01

  Integrating AI and Deep Mutational Scanning to Predict the Cancer-Promoting Effect of Shelterin Mutations

  University of California Berkeley· Berkeley, United States· US$2,197,943 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2029

• NIH NCI · R41

  Development of MCL 1-Targeting Antibody–Drug Conjugates for Cancer Therapy

  Immunogenic Cancer Engineering Therapeutics Llc· Englewood Cliffs, United States· US$412,351 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• NIH NEI · R01

  Discovery of novel trifunctional hybrid compounds (TFHCs): potential glaucoma therapy with superior IOP reduction and neuroprotection

  Creighton University· Omaha, United States· US$576,730 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jul 2031

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Signaling and Powering Anti-cancer Responses in T Cells SPARC

  Stichting Amsterdam Umc· Amsterdam, Netherlands· EU contribution €2,500,000· until Oct 2031

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

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

  SMART-SMAPs: a new paradigm of cell-free cytotoxic immunotherapy for resistant CLL

  Universita Degli Studi di Siena· Siena, Italy· EU contribution €150,000· until Mar 2028· 2 countries

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

  Immuno-Modulatory Platform for Advanced CLL Therapy (IMPACT)

  Stichting Amsterdam Umc· Amsterdam, Netherlands· EU contribution €150,000· until Mar 2028

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

  Targeting GAB1: a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of leukemias (LeukemiaBlock)

  Masarykova univerzita· Brno, Czechia· EU contribution €150,000· until Feb 2028

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

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

  A single-cell-based solution for an early diagnosis of Richter transformation in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (earlyRTdx)

  Fundacio de Recerca Clinic Barcelona-Institut D Investigacions Biomediques August Pi I Sunyer· Barcelona, Spain· EU contribution €150,000· until Oct 2027

10 of 143 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$97.4m + €16.8m.

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

  CAR20.19.22 T-cells in Relapsed, Refractory B-cell Malignancies

  NCT05094206· Medical College of Wisconsin· Updated 19 Sept 2024

  “Treated four patients: 2 at a dose of 1x10\^6 cells/kg and 2 ad at dose of 2.5x10\^6 cells/kg. All four patients had no in-vivo expansion and no meaningful response to therapy. At this point per FDA guidance we will not be treating more patients.”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

• Withdrawn

  Interleukin-2 Following 4SCAR19/22 T Cells Targeting Refractory and/or Recurrent B Cell Malignancies

  NCT03098355· Zhujiang Hospital· Updated 18 Mar 2024

  “The company did not offer the appropriate CART services.”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• CD19/CD22 Bicistronic Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells in Children and Young Adults With Recurrent or Refractory B Cell Malignancies

  NCT05442515· National Cancer Institute (NCI)· Source

• A Study of JNJ-75348780 in Participants With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

  NCT04540796· Janssen Research & Development, LLC· Source

• CD19/CD22 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells in Children and Young Adults With Recurrent or Refractory CD19/CD22-expressing B Cell Malignancies

  NCT03448393· National Cancer Institute (NCI)· Source

• CAR2219 CAR-T Cells for the Treatment of R/R B Cell Leukemia and Lymphoma

  NCT06834529· Affiliated Hospital to Academy of Military Medical Sciences· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 6
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 2
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 1
• Gene Expression Profiling 9
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 1
• Whole Genome Sequencing 1
• Exome Sequencing 1
• Proteomics 3
• Metabolomics 1
• Mass Spectrometry 2
• Flow Cytometry 21
• Immunohistochemistry 6
• Circulating Tumor DNA 1
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 9
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 4
• Machine Learning 10
• Cohort Studies 18
• Genome-Wide Association Study 2

• Patterns and drivers of 43,617 mosaic chromosomal alterations in blood.

  Nat Genet, May 2026

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