Head and neck cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• PD-1 70
• PD-L1 42
• TP53 7
• EGFR 33
• PI3K 6
• STAT3 1
• BRAF 0
• AKT 2
• mTOR 0
• HER2 6
• RET 0
• MAPK 0
• ERK 0
• STING 0
• PTEN 1
• TERT 0
• CTNNB1 0
• JAK 1
• CTLA-4 4
• NRF2 0
• MYC 0
• VEGF 4
• YAP 1
• HIF-1 0
• MET 3
• AMPK 0
• CLDN18 0
• IL-6 2
• JNK 0
• PARP 1
• FGFR 1
• GPX4 0
• B7-H3 5
• CD47 1
• COX-2 0
• LAG-3 2
• TROP2 5
• EZH2 0
• MEK 0
• METTL3 0
• PIK3CA 4
• CDK4/6 2
• NLRP3 0
• ATM 0
• PKM2 0
• TNF 0
• FAK 0
• MMP-9 0
• PPAR 0
• PSMA 1
• TLR4 0
• BCL-2 0
• HSP90 0
• KRAS 0
• NOTCH1 0
• NTRK 1
• ALK 0
• CD40 1
• CDKN2A 2
• CXCR4 0

17 of 17+ 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 NIDCR · F31

  Investigating the impact of radiation therapy on oral squamous cell carcinoma microenvironment via non-classical class I major histocompatibility complex HLA-E

  University of California at Davis· Davis, United States· US$43,748 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2029

• NIH NIDCR · F32

  Transposon derived neo-antigens in NSD1 mutant Head and Neck Cancers

  Columbia University Health Sciences· New York, United States· US$77,580 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Sept 2028

• NIH NIAID · R56

  Functional dissection of a novel E2 complex critical for the HPV16 life cycle

  Virginia Commonwealth University· Richmond, United States· US$768,308 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• NIH NIDCR · R01

  Restoring responses to immunotherapy in metastatic lymph nodes in HNSCC

  University of California, San Francisco· San Francisco, United States· US$684,832 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jul 2031

• NIH NIDCR · R01

  Advancing FTIR-based Multimodal Imaging with AI for Risk Stratification of Oral Precancer

  University of Missouri Kansas City· Kansas City, United States· US$527,533 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jun 2030

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

  Epigenetic Profiling and Telomere-Orchestrated Mechanisms in HPV+ Oropharyngeal Cancer (EPiTOME-M)

  Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland· Dublin 2, Ireland· EU contribution €268,569· until Nov 2028· 2 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Endoscopic tissue time machine (EPIC)

  King's College London· London, United Kingdom· EU contribution €2,273,033· until May 2031

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

  From Whisper to Voice: Real-Time on-Device Assistive AI Technology for Human Connection (Whispp)

  Whispp Bv· Leiden, Netherlands· EU contribution €2,498,319· until May 2028

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

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-RIA

  INHIBITING RESISTANCE TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN HEAD&NECK CANCER BY TARGETING NETRIN-1 (NeckNET)

  Netris Pharma Sas· Lyon, France· EU contribution €7,248,398· until May 2030· 4 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-RIA

  Early clinical development of first-in-class EGL-001 targeting Tregs in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, supported by AI-based pathomics (NEOTREG)

  Egle Therapeutics· Suresnes, France· EU contribution €7,999,120· until Nov 2028· 4 countries

10 of 564 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$326.5m + €36.6m.

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

  Phase 1/2 Study Evaluating MCLA-129, a Human Anti-EGFR, Anti-c-MET Bispecific Antibody, in Advanced NSCLC and Other Solid Tumors, Alone and in Combination

  NCT04868877· Merus B.V.· Updated 26 Oct 2026

  “The Sponsor terminated the trial early for strategic business reasons. This isn't related to any safety/efficacy/clinical activity/benefit-risk concern with petosemtamab. Ongoing participants will have access to treatment outside of this trial.”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• A Phase 1, Dose-escalation Study of [225Ac]-FPI-2068 in Adult Patients With Advanced Solid Tumours

  NCT06147037· AstraZeneca· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 84
• Organoids 23
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 49
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 13
• Gene Expression Profiling 244
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 26
• Whole Genome Sequencing 7
• Exome Sequencing 22
• Proteomics 65
• Metabolomics 43
• Mass Spectrometry 14
• Flow Cytometry 56
• Immunohistochemistry 333
• Liquid Biopsy 34
• Circulating Tumor DNA 57
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 308
• Positron-Emission Tomography 83
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 276
• Machine Learning 232
• Deep Learning 187
• Cohort Studies 296
• Genome-Wide Association Study 55

• Causal effects of antihypertensive drugs on thyroid diseases: A trans-ancestry drug-target Mendelian randomization study.

  Medicine (Baltimore), Oct 2026

• Causal association between fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) and gastric cancer: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.

  Int J Biol Markers, Oct 2026

• Association Between Oral Cavity Cancer and Lymphoma: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

  Oral Health Prev Dent, Aug 2026

• Causal Association Between Antidepressant Use and Thyroid Disease Risk: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.

  Actas Esp Psiquiatr, Aug 2026

• A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomisation Analysis of the Oral Microbiome and Oral/Oropharyngeal/Tongue Cancers.

  Oral Health Prev Dent, Aug 2026

• Multi-Omics Profiling Identifies Novel Therapeutic Targets and Pathobiological Mechanisms in Oral Cancer.

  J Cell Mol Med, Aug 2026

• Deciphering the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption, Oropharyngeal Cancers, and Socioeconomic Determinants.

  Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken), Aug 2026

• Blood Manganese and Risk of Squamous Cell Carcinomas of the Head and Neck.

  JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, Aug 2026

• Exploring the potential causal relationship between lipid metabolism and oral carcinoma in situ: A 2-sample Mendelian randomization study.

  Medicine (Baltimore), Jul 2026

• Genetically predicted vitamin D levels and risk of head and neck cancer: a mendelian randomization study.

  Cancer Causes Control, Jul 2026

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