Lung cancer: who works on it

One card per institution. Pick a target or a country to narrow the list.

• All targets
• EGFR 301
• PD-L1 162
• PD-1 156
• KRAS 97
• ALK 72
• TP53 10
• HER2 63
• MET 43
• PI3K 1
• STAT3 0
• AKT 2
• ROS1 27
• VEGF 23
• mTOR 0
• BRAF 9
• RET 9
• NRF2 1
• MAPK 1
• ERK 0
• STING 0
• STK11 7
• YAP 1
• DLL3 27
• CTLA-4 15
• TROP2 14
• CTNNB1 0
• RAS 15
• JAK 1
• HIF-1 1
• AMPK 0
• PARP 2
• KEAP1 5
• JNK 0
• MYC 1
• B7-H3 14
• GPX4 0
• HER3 11
• PTEN 4
• MEK 1
• TIGIT 6
• FGFR 3
• IL-6 1
• PPAR 0
• EZH2 2
• HDAC 0
• PRMT5 7
• FAK 0
• COX-2 0
• HMGB1 0
• NTRK 5
• AXL 3
• BCL-2 0
• CDK4/6 4
• CXCR4 1
• CD47 1
• METTL3 0
• NLRP3 0
• SHP2 0
• HSP90 0
• MDM2 1

24 of 28+ 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.

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · IK6

  ISRM Research Career Scientist Award Application

  Veterans Health Administration· Pittsburgh, United States· until Sept 2031

• NIH NIEHS · F31

  PhosFate: Investigating Chemical Hazards, Community Exposures, and Health Risks from Phosphate Fertilizer Manufacturing

  University of South Florida· Tampa, United States· US$41,102 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Sept 2028

• 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 NCI · R01

  Role of Allostatic Load in Immunotherapy Outcomes

  Ut Southwestern Medical Center· Dallas, United States· US$389,844 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R21

  Tackling tumor recurrence in pediatric brain tumors: identification of epigenetic memory and tumor microenvironment conducive to tumor recurrence in an inducible and reversible H3K27M murine model.

  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor· Ann Arbor, United States· US$401,115 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2028

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

  Designing Programmable MOF-nanocomposites for Synergistic, Redox-Driven Antitumor Therapies (Photo-bioMOF)

  Fundacion IMDEA Energia· Mostoles Madrid, Spain· EU contribution €262,393· until Feb 2030· 2 countries

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

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Identifying and disrupting neuroimmune circuits in cancer (NeuroCAN)

  Universitat Basel· Basel, Switzerland· EU contribution €1,874,590· until Jun 2032

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

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

  Predicting immunotherapy response in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer patients using an extracellular vesicle-derived miRNA signature and a non-invasive CRISPR-based detection assay. (IT-PREDICT)

  Centre Georges-Francois Leclerc Association· Dijon, France· EU contribution €242,261· until Mar 2029

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

  A Dual Amplification Photoelectrochemical Platform for KRAS Mutation Detection (PEAKRAS)

  Universiteit Antwerpen· Antwerpen, Belgium· EU contribution €216,240· until Jan 2029

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

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

  KRAS Targeting in Oncogenic Systems: reconstructing the KRAS signalling network to identify optimal drug combinations (KRATOS)

  University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin· Dublin, Ireland· EU contribution €426,534· until Jan 2030· 2 countries

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

10 of 1,451 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$841.1m + €224.7m.

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.

• HERTHENA-Lung01: Patritumab Deruxtecan in Subjects With Metastatic or Locally Advanced EGFR-mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

  NCT04619004· Daiichi Sankyo· Source

• KEYMAKER-U01 Substudy 01A: Efficacy and Safety Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) With or Without Chemotherapy When Used With Investigational Agents in Treatment-naïve Participants With Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (MK-3475-01A/KEYMAKER-U01A)

  NCT04165070· Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC· Source

• A Study of HER3-DXd in Subjects With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

  NCT06172478· Daiichi Sankyo· Source

• U3-1402 in Metastatic or Unresectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

  NCT03260491· Daiichi Sankyo· Source

• HER3-DXd (Patritumab Deruxtecan; U3-1402) in Combination With Osimertinib in Subjects With Locally Advanced or Metastatic EGFR-mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

  NCT04676477· Daiichi Sankyo· Source

• A Study of Pembrolizumab With or Without Chemotherapy in Combination With Additional Treatments for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (MK-3475-01G/KEYMAKER U01)

  NCT06731907· Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC· Source

• HERTHENA-Lung02: A Study of Patritumab Deruxtecan Versus Platinum-based Chemotherapy in Metastatic or Locally Advanced EGFRm NSCLC After Failure of EGFR TKI Therapy

  NCT05338970· Daiichi Sankyo· Source

• HER3-DXd in Breast Cancer and NSCLC Brain Metastases and Solid Tumor Leptomeningeal Disease

  NCT05865990· MedSIR· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 145
• Organoids 47
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 66
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 43
• Gene Expression Profiling 314
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 43
• Whole Genome Sequencing 13
• Exome Sequencing 18
• Proteomics 133
• Metabolomics 67
• Mass Spectrometry 25
• Flow Cytometry 73
• Immunohistochemistry 191
• Liquid Biopsy 76
• Circulating Tumor DNA 83
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 618
• Positron-Emission Tomography 70
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 116
• Machine Learning 290
• Deep Learning 211
• Cohort Studies 289
• Genome-Wide Association Study 75

• Integrative whole-exome sequencing and functional validation identify drivers of lung cancer metastasis seeding and colonization in the brain.

  Cell Cycle, Oct 2026

• Pleural Mesothelioma With Unusual Squamous Differentiation: A Clinicopathological Case Report With Molecular Insights From Whole-Exome Sequencing.

  Pathol Int, Oct 2026

• Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding the evolution of non-small cell lung cancer using single-cell sequencing.

  Oncogene, Sept 2026

• Integrated genomic and immunophenotypic profiling reveals monoclonal origin, smoking-driven evolution and heterogeneous microenvironment in pulmonary adenosquamous carcinoma.

  Front Immunol, Jun 2026

• Exploratory plasma ctDNA genomic biomarkers identified by whole-exome sequencing and a novel bioinformatics pipeline in advanced driver-negative NSCLC.

  Sci Rep, May 2026

• Broader gene representation by whole-exome sequencing improves accuracy of tumor mutational burden assessment for selection of pembrolizumab immunotherapy.

  Cancer Immunol Immunother, May 2026

• Genetic analysis of primary lung interdigitating dendritic cell sarcomas.

  J Pathol, May 2026

• Spatial multi-omics unveils the monoclonal origin, neuroendocrine plasticity, and microenvironment niches in combined small-cell lung cancer.

  Cell Rep Med, Apr 2026

• Costs and benefits of whole-exome, whole-transcriptome sequencing versus 50-gene panels for genomic profiling in solid tumors.

  J Med Econ, Mar 2026

• Longitudinal Whole-Exome Sequencing of Cell-Free DNA Reveals Molecular Evolution and Heterogeneous Clinical Outcomes in PD-L1 Stratified Advanced NSCLC Adenocarcinoma Patients Treated with Atezolizumab.

  Int J Mol Sci, Mar 2026

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