Liver and biliary tract cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• PD-1 91
• PD-L1 51
• TP53 3
• PI3K 0
• mTOR 1
• AKT 0
• STAT3 1
• VEGF 20
• FGFR 22
• GPC3 38
• CTNNB1 5
• YAP 0
• MAPK 0
• HER2 28
• NRF2 0
• HIF-1 0
• PPAR 0
• ERK 0
• AMPK 0
• STING 0
• EGFR 8
• CTLA-4 19
• MYC 0
• IDH 6
• JAK 0
• JNK 0
• PTEN 0
• GPX4 0
• KRAS 8
• BCL-2 0
• HSP90 0
• IL-6 1
• PSMA 8
• MET 1
• GLP-1 1
• BRAF 3
• EZH2 0
• NLRP3 0
• CLDN18 10
• MEK 0
• B7-H3 5
• COX-2 0
• HDAC 0
• CXCR4 0
• HMGB1 0
• METTL3 0
• SIRT1 0
• TLR4 0
• MMP-9 0
• TNF 0
• PARP 2
• PCSK9 0
• TIGIT 2
• TIM-3 1
• IL-17 0
• RAS 2
• SGLT2 0
• CD47 0
• CDK4/6 0
• IL-15 2

1 of 1+ 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-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

  Glutaminase Isoenzymes: Gatekeepers of Bioenergetics, Immunity, and Tumor Microenvironment in Diabetes-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (IRM)

  Fundacion Para la Investigacion de Malaga En Biomedicina y Salud· Malaga, Spain· EU contribution €209,915· until Aug 2029

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Decoding Neural Circuits in Cholangiocarcinoma (LIVER-CIRCUITS)

  Technische Universitaet Dresden· Dresden, Germany· EU contribution €1,500,000· until Dec 2031

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

  Unravelling Malignant Cholangiocyte Subpopulations that Drive Chemoresistance in Cholangiocarcinoma (RESIST-CCA)

  Humanitas Mirasole Spa· Rozzano (Mi), Italy· EU contribution €193,643· until Dec 2028

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

  Multiscale 3D virtual histology with non-destructive x-rays (XHIST)

  Danmarks Tekniske Universitet· Kongens Lyngby, Denmark· EU contribution €150,000· until Mar 2028

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

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Mechano-metabOlic Responsive nanoPlatform for HeterogEnous tUmor Suppression (MORPHEUS)

  Fundacion de la Comunidad Valenciana Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe· Valencia, Spain· EU contribution €2,499,745· until Aug 2031

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

5 of 39 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: €133.0m.

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

  18F-DCFPyL PET/CT in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  NCT05009979· National Cancer Institute (NCI)· Updated 28 Aug 2025

  “Reason for termination was a combination of slow accrual in setting of austerity measures regarding resource allocation.”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• 18F-DCFPyL PET/CT in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  NCT05009979· National Cancer Institute (NCI)· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 109
• Organoids 40
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 38
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 34
• Gene Expression Profiling 281
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 20
• Whole Genome Sequencing 9
• Exome Sequencing 19
• Proteomics 119
• Metabolomics 73
• Mass Spectrometry 23
• Flow Cytometry 66
• Immunohistochemistry 125
• Liquid Biopsy 34
• Circulating Tumor DNA 41
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 443
• Positron-Emission Tomography 35
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 376
• Machine Learning 198
• Deep Learning 114
• Cohort Studies 184
• Genome-Wide Association Study 42

• GallMine: an integrated knowledgebase and data repository on gallbladder cancer.

  Mol Genet Genomics, Nov 2026

• Commonly expressed key driver genes in the pathogenesis of viral and non-viral liver cancer.

  PLoS One, Nov 2026

• Enhancing cell type deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics through incorporating multiple reference panels.

  PLoS Genet, Nov 2026

• Proteogenomic Profiling Identifies FGFR2b as a Prevalent Cell Surface Target in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.

  Clin Cancer Res, Nov 2026

• Upfront Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer: Real-World Implementation and Clinical Outcomes.

  Cancer Med, Nov 2026

• Immune-Related Biomarkers and an Exploratory Prognostic Signature in Biliary Tract and Gallbladder Cancer.

  J Vis Exp, Oct 2026

• Transcriptome Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus-Infected Hepatoma Cells Following Stringent Removal of Genomic DNA.

  Viruses, Oct 2026

• Genomic and immune profiling characterizes immune heterogeneity and a TIGIT-associated subtype in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

  Hepatol Commun, Oct 2026

• ΔNp63α‑mediated regulation of tumor‑associated genes and pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma progression.

  Mol Med Rep, Oct 2026

• integrating single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling to decipher the molecular landscape of Hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PLoS One, Oct 2026

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