Frontotemporal dementia: who works on it

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• All targets
• TDP-43 4
• C9orf72 0
• MAPT 2
• TREM2 0
• CSF1R 0
• SOD1 0
• NRF2 0
• AKT 0
• APOE 0
• CDK4/6 0
• GLP-1 0
• HMGB1 0
• LRRK2 0
• MAPK 0
• NLRP3 0
• SIRT1 0
• SNCA 0
• STING 0
• TP53 0

8 of 8+ 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 · F31

  Characterizing the Role of Gasdermin-Eand Downstream Innate Immune Pathways in Frontotemporal Dementia

  Harvard Medical School· Boston, United States· US$45,214 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Sept 2029

• NIH NIA · R01

  Synapse repair in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

  Buck Institute for Research on Aging· Novato, United States· US$785,081 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jul 2031

• NIH NINDS · R56

  Unraveling Mechanisms Governing Cell Clearance Deficits in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD

  University of Missouri-Columbia· Columbia, United States· US$539,427 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• NIH NIA · R44

  Clinical Evaluation of a Novel [18F] Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Tracer for Differential Diagnosis and Staging of 4R Tauopathies

  Enigma Biomedical Usa, Inc· Knoxville, United States· US$896,719 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until May 2029

• NIH NINDS · R44

  The Therapeutic Development of a Clinical NR1H3 Antisense Oligonucleotide to Reprogram Microglia into a Neuroprotective State in ALS and FTD

  Modulo Bio, Inc.· San Diego, United States· US$847,695 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2028

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

  From Stool to Solutions: Diagnose, Decode, Disruptors, and Deliver Interventions for the Human Gut Microbiota in Neurodegenerative Diseases. (GUT-4D)

  Universita Degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro· Vercelli, Italy· EU contribution €1,568,130· until Sept 2030· 8 countries

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

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

  Unraveling the impact of RNA-editing in neurodegeneration: a focus on TDP-43 related frontotemporal dementia. (NeuroEDIT)

  Asociacion Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Biogipuzkoa· Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain· EU contribution €194,075· until Aug 2028· 2 countries

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

  The role of cellular mechanical stress in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders (NEUROMECH)

  Universita Degli Studi Dell'aquila· L Aquila, Italy· EU contribution €2,647,675· until Dec 2029· 8 countries

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

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Targeting rogue DNA repair and genomic instability as novel toxicity mechanisms in C9orf72 ALS/FTD (epiC9repair)

  Deutsches Zentrum fur Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen Ev· Bonn, Germany· EU contribution €2,498,905· until Oct 2030

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

  Translational METabolomics for NEurodegenerative Diseases dIAgnosis and prognosis (METNEDIA)

  Universita Degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro· Vercelli, Italy· EU contribution €1,107,210· until Oct 2029· 5 countries

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

10 of 492 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$391.9m + €17.7m.

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.

• A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacodynamics of NIO752 in Primary Tauopathies

  NCT07868328· Novartis Pharmaceuticals· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 1
• Organoids 4
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 10
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 1
• Gene Expression Profiling 4
• Whole Genome Sequencing 3
• Exome Sequencing 1
• Proteomics 17
• Metabolomics 1
• Mass Spectrometry 1
• Flow Cytometry 2
• Immunohistochemistry 1
• Positron-Emission Tomography 28
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 74
• Machine Learning 18
• Deep Learning 9
• Cohort Studies 34
• Genome-Wide Association Study 13

• Behavioural rigidity as a transdiagnostic marker of nucleus accumbens dysfunction in dementia.

  Brain, Nov 2026

• Frontal Cerebral Blood Flow Deficits in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Associations With Clinical Symptoms, Peripheral Vascular Biomarkers, and Neuroimaging Measures.

  CNS Neurosci Ther, Nov 2026

• Ventricular and Choroid Plexus Morphological Alterations and Their Associations With Peripheral Biomarkers in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.

  Brain Behav, Nov 2026

• Neurotransmitter-defined cerebral vulnerability patterns in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

  J Neurol, Oct 2026

• Accelerated brain aging as a transdiagnostic biomarker: A lifespan MRI brain age study across seven disorders.

  Psychol Med, Oct 2026

• External validation of an integrative model of functional impairment in early-stage behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

  J Neurol, Oct 2026

• Cortex-grounded diffusion models for brain image generation.

  Med Image Anal, Sept 2026

• Age at dementia diagnosis, subtype associations, and neuroimaging differentiation in Bangladesh: The CARED study.

  PLoS One, Sept 2026

• Disease-specific hypometabolic epicenters in dementia: Neural networks and clinical correlations.

  J Alzheimers Dis, Sept 2026

• A rostral prefrontal mediolateral gradient predicts creativity in frontotemporal dementia.

  Brain, Sept 2026

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