Liver and biliary tract cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• PD-1 92
• PD-L1 51
• TP53 3
• PI3K 0
• mTOR 1
• AKT 0
• STAT3 1
• VEGF 20
• FGFR 22
• GPC3 38
• CTNNB1 5
• YAP 0
• HER2 28
• MAPK 0
• NRF2 0
• HIF-1 0
• PPAR 0
• ERK 0
• AMPK 0
• EGFR 8
• STING 0
• CTLA-4 20
• 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
• CDK4/6 0
• IL-17 0
• RAS 2
• SGLT2 0
• CD47 0
• IL-15 2

24 of 53+ 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 · R44

  Overcoming Immune Evasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Engineered T-Cell Therapy

  March Biosciences Inc· Houston, United States· US$399,003 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• NIH NIDDK · R01

  Stakeholder Engagement and Modeling for Adoption of a Novel Cirrhosis Detection Algorithm

  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor· Ann Arbor, United States· US$810,994 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jun 2030

• NIH NCI · R01

  Assessment of sound waves from liver vessels via artificial intelligence to detect liver cancer

  University of Minnesota· Minneapolis, United States· US$18,735 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R41

  MUSIC: Multiplexed siRNA and CRISPR in an LNP to knockout cancer

  Jumble Therapeutics, Inc· Cambridge, United States· US$395,652 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• NIH NCI · K08

  Metabolic Imaging to Enable Targeted Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  University of Pennsylvania· Philadelphia, United States· US$296,232 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• 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.

10 of 875 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$477.7m + €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

  A Study to Evaluate KIN-3248 in Participants With Advanced Tumors Harboring FGFR2 and//or FGFR3 Gene Alterations

  NCT05242822· Kinnate Biopharma· Updated 7 May 2025

  “Due to a change in the Sponsor's corporate strategy the study was terminated early by the Sponsor prior to enrollment into the dose expansion part of the study (Part B).”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

• Terminated

  Futibatinib Versus Gemcitabine-Cisplatin Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment of Patients With Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma Harboring FGFR2 Gene Rearrangements

  NCT04093362· Taiho Oncology, Inc.· Updated 7 Feb 2025

  “Due to Poor Recruitment”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pemigatinib in Participants With Advanced/Metastatic or Surgically Unresectable Cholangiocarcinoma With FGFR2 Fusion or Rearrangements After at Least 1 Prior Line of Systemic Therapy

  NCT07862998· Incyte Corporation· Source

• Pemigatinib + Afatinib in Advanced Refractory Solid Tumors

  NCT06302621· Massachusetts General Hospital· Source

• Futibatinib (TAS-120) in Patients With Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer

  NCT07710885· Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.· Source

• A Study of E7090 in Participants With Unresectable Advanced or Metastatic Cholangiocarcinoma With Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR) 2 Gene Fusion

  NCT04238715· Eisai Co., Ltd.· Source

• A Post-marketing Observational Study of Tasfygo in Participants With Unresectable Biliary Tract Cancer With Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 (FGFR2) Fusion Gene Positivity Who Progressed After Chemotherapy

  NCT06793709· Eisai Co., Ltd.· Source

• A Phase 3, Open-Label, Randomized, Active-Controlled, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pemigatinib Versus Gemcitabine Plus Cisplatin Chemotherapy in First-Line Treatment of Participants With Unresectable or Metastatic Cholangiocarcinoma With FGFR2 Rearrangement (FIGHT-302)

  NCT03656536· Incyte Corp.· 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 42
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 443
• Positron-Emission Tomography 35
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 376
• Machine Learning 199
• Deep Learning 114
• Cohort Studies 184
• Genome-Wide Association Study 42

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